SoulSmilen and Bren, thanks for the advice. I still have the daughter from my very first family (well, her and her husband and kids) but familes 2, 3 and 4 were wiped out and restarted. I will just keep trying to figure things out. Here it is 12:35 in the morning where I live and I'm still up (just about to go to bed though) but I closed my game around 10:20 tonight and haven't reopened it since. Hopefully after a few nights like that they will start having more energy. It's just that I was disappointed that when I tried to play around 8:00 to 8:30 this evening they were either really tired or already exhausted, but I kept at it anyway until almost 10:30. Now, as I said, I won't open the game before tomorrow morning and hopefully they will have more energy tomorrow.

Marian Frae, when my peeps voluntarily nap during the day, I leave them alone until I see they are up again on their own. I will play another family member instead. I have even put some of them into the hammock throughout the day and purposely left them alone until I noticed they were back up on their own, so I have been trying to let them sleep and just playing the family members that have more energy.

I have also been stopping my "workaholics" and trying to make them watch t.v., read, dance, etc. to force them to relax more. Maybe everyone that says they don't want it changed is right -- it's just a more challenging game in that we have to learn to work with them as individuals. I just wish that I actually had more time to play them when they weren't tired. It's too bad that I couldn't make their morning start when I was ready to start playing, but that would probably mean changing my computer's clock which I really don't want to do. I know that with all the VV games, I never once changed the clock, I just played it the hard way.