I'm getting the standing to eat, too, with a table and 4 empty chairs.

Tatertots, I agree about CAW.  My sims3packs disappeared from the Launcher after updating and before downloading CAW, so it couldn't be CAW that broke it.  The workaround fixed it for me.

Congratulations ... THIS was the problem!  How it got that way is a mystery, as I haven't gone to the game options window in months, but the "enable aging" box was indeed unchecked in game options.  I'll bear that in mind for the future.  I'm blaming it on ISM.

For context, I am attempting the Colony Challenge (MTS2) and was setting up a brand new neighborhood with new sims.  I was attempting to set up each household so I created all sims, then installed Awesomemod (have not used before) and set to TS2 aging true while I found careers for all sims.  I changed config manually on each game load - do not have config file set.  Each game load TS2 defaulted to false and had to be reset.  After setting up each household, I did some more thinking and decided I wanted to install Indie because I had some experience with that one before patching and installing Awesomemod.  Closed out game, loaded everything, no problems.  Opened game, verified TS2 aging was off, and went straight to the cell phone to change global options.  Began actual gameplay with Awesomemod (which is awesome).  After five days in game realized sims were not aging ... I'm anal and keep a log of ages.  Re-adjusted cell phones, played three more game days, and still no aging.  They are spawning, though.  Had never told game to play with stasis or any Indie non-aging features.  Have verified and re-verified that TS2 aging remains off.

Have not used the bless feature yet, so that can't be it ... unless I blessed it accidentally somehow.  Will look into that.

Coltraz, I will try setting every sim in the household.  I tried adjusting everything globally and thought that would take care of it, but it hasn't.

I am currently running Awesomemod and Indie Stone with the latest patch.  I have stasis off, household aging on for all households, and TS2 aging off.  My sims are not aging.  What am I missing?

I played a family with seven spawn and I literally ignored them.  I let the older siblings take care of the younger ones.  All the children were constantly in red and I expected them to be taken away by the social worker but they never were.  It has to be seriously difficult to have them removed.