The Rothschild Family
Caleb Oliver Rothschild [22] & Ava Rae Rothschild [22]
Caleb was born on the thirteenth of July and is 22 years old. He has blonde hair and green eyes.
Ava was born on the tenth of July and is 22 years old. She has brown hair and blue eyes.
1997
{Couple} Caleb Oliver [22] & Ava Rae [22]
{Pets} Anya [Savannah, 0]
Pet - Well, as much as both of us missed having pets in college it would seem that Caleb missed them even more because all of a sudden with no notice for me he shows up at our apartment with what looks like the cutest kitten in the world. It turns out that the little girl kitten he brought isn't just any kind of kitten, but she's a Savannah. A cat breed which is a mix between the domestic cat and a Serval. She's the sweetest thing and has a wonderful temperament. We pick the name Anya as it's meaning of grace feels right for her, Caleb and I knowing with time she'll grow from a flustered kitten into an elegant mock jungle cat.
Random - It takes a lot of time and thought, but well after working for someone else I'm just so unhappy working for someone else and making their vision come true and not my own and so in combination with my best friend and fellow culinary school graduate, Julian Ayinde Towne, we open up a cafe together which we name Whisk Me Away~ as most of the things we choose to make are on the sweeter side, though we also serve gourmet soups and sandwiches. It's a little rocky and rough at first, but four months in we get featured in not one, not two, but three different magazines. Business kicks up like wildfire and we garner a ton of new customers who become repeat customers, we got a little over a dozen wedding cake orders and nearly double that in anniversary and birthday cakes as well. The whole thing is a triumph, and I'm so glad that I followed my vision.
1998
{Couple} Caleb Oliver [23] & Ava Rae [23]
{Pets} Anya [Savannah, 1]
{Children} Sage Clementine [0]
Travel - Caleb has to go away for his job. He's an entry level accountant at his firm. They're sending Caleb to a conference and well, if he does well with them then he could be looking at a promotion in the near future. Hopefully of course. While I hve my dream with the cafe, Caleb has been the responsible one and I'm so thankful for it so when he goes away I plan to work super hard. He'll be gone in Chicago for a full week and a half and I plan to spend nearly every second of it at Whisk Me Away. Of course, Anya will be with me, but she'll be confined to the back office/living area we have and will be nowhere near the food or anything, but just with me. The time there is fun for me and though I miss Caleb we're both excited to work hard in our careers.
Child - Of course, nothing is ever that simple is it. It would seem Caleb's going away special night led to our very first pregnancy. It is a little sooner than Caleb and I planned to have children, we've only been married for two years and it seems really early for us, but well, what can we do? We'll love our baby of course. We're having a little girl and I couldn't be more excited! I've always wanted a daughter to dress up and who I can give a frilly and feminine name. Our apartment is a little small, but thankfully it does have a second bedroom in it that I'd been using as a home office, but we're converting it into a nursery for our sweet pea which is the theme of the room. Even more shocking then the pregnancy, was going into early labor and welcoming Sage Clementine Rothschild on January 1st, 1998, aka New Years Day. Sage is a mix of us both, she has Caleb's blonde hair and my blue eyes.
1999
{Couple} Caleb Oliver [24] & Ava Rae [24]
{Pets} Anya [Savannah, 2]
{Children} Sage Clementine [1]
Moving - Having expanded our family so much Caleb and I feel that we need to move as the room for all of us just isn't there in our apartment. Not to mention both Caleb and I are doing so well in both of our jobs and making so much money. It helps that we don't need daycare as I can take care of Sage and do my job at the same time. In fact, she's a wonderful helper at work and the customers all adore seeing her at the cafe. We end up picking a single story house to move into as it is just lovely. The house has four bedrooms, two full bathrooms, one half-bathroom and a wonderful kitchen that I just fell in love with, though of course the backyard isn't that big which is a shame, but it is close enough to park that we can walk to with Sage and Anya to go and play at. Currently we made one of the two extra bedrooms into a shared office for myself and Caleb and the second spare one into a guest room for when either of our parents or siblings come to visit.
Travel - Once again, it would seem they're sending Caleb away, though this time it is for less time, but farther away which is a little disconcerting. Before it was fun when he went away and could go travel for work and I could focus on the cafe, but now we have Sage so it is a little harder. She'll miss her daddy and We both feel a little bad about it, but well, it's what we have to do as working, young parents. So, Caleb takes his trip to Brazil for a single week. I'm hoping that if they're going to keep running him around like this Caleb will get a raise or a promotion or something soon.
2000
{Couple} Caleb Oliver [25] & Ava Rae [25]
{Pets} Anya [Savannah, 3]
{Children} Sage Clementine [2]
Moving - Well, It would seem Caleb did get a promotion and with that promotion came with a big client, of course it wasn't that simple. The client's primary residence is in New Zealand. Not only that, but for the client to test Caleb out we're going to need to move there for a bit as the man is so damn eccentric. I'm not pleased in the slightest, but we really can't say no. Thankfully, the move is only temporary for nine weeks. It's going to be horrible to be away from the business, but I know Julian will take care of our shop just as good as I can. So, we pack up Anya and Sage and then move into a two-story condominium that Caleb's company will be paying for the whole time including utilities. I'll miss working, but getting to spend that nine weeks as a stay-at-home mom to Sage will be wonderful.
Family Matter - My grandmother, Mimi Edith Day, passed away this year and it was very disorienting. I wasn't sure what to feel when she died. Yes, she was my grandmother and she had that role as a person, but she and I were never really close to one another. Mimi likes having an appearance and she just did strange things. She always tried to undermine my mom and dad, and she was just...something. I'll miss her and it is a low blow to my father who will miss his mother greatly. I do my best to help him though it, but he had my mother and my siblings to help as well.
2001
{Couple} Caleb Oliver [26] & Ava Rae [26]
{Pets} Anya [Savannah, 4]
{Children} Sage Clementine [3] Brent Edward [0]
Child - As Sage is getting older and well, Caleb and I know we want children and we don't want them to be too far apart in age so we decided to start trying and got pregnant right away with our second baby. We're very excited to find out that we're having a baby boy this time. We remove the home office and make it into a room for him, painting it light blue with clouds all over and it's wonderful. We're all set and ready so when August 8th, 2001 rolls around and in a very easy labor came Brent Edward Rothschild. He's a chubby little boobear. He's a miniature of his dad with his blonde hair and green eyes. The scary thing though, the hospital actually brought me the wrong baby! I could tell from his dark locks which were not my baby's perfect blonde curls. Thankfully he was just a room over and we got him back in under five minutes.
Travel - Well, Caleb and I decided to go on a little vacation together after having Brent and with having two young kids, Caleb and I know we need some time alone together so we can appreciate each other and well, we let my parents, Rebecca "Becky" Ann Day and Andrew Robin Day, come and stay at our house and take care of Sage and Brent while Caleb and I go on a second honeymoon to Hawaii for two weeks. We get three couples massages and a mudbath.
2002
{Couple} Caleb Oliver [27] & Ava Rae [27]
{Pets} Anya [Savannah, 5]
{Children} Sage Clementine [4] Brent Edward [1]
Travel - Caleb's parents, Samuel Frederick Rothschild and Lisa "Lia" Lane Rothschild, live all the way away in LA and haven't seen sage since her second birthday or have met Brent, so we decide to take the whole family on a trip to go see them. They're marveled to see Brent, especially as he looks so much like Caleb did when he was a little kid, and they can't believe how much Sage has grown. Though, we made a conversation that we'd do every other year of them coming to us and us going to them as it really isn't right for the kids to not see their grandparents or for them to not be able to see the kids that much and well, that is what we'll do to make it work for all of our family.
Pet - Sage finds a golden, little fluffy puppy in the yard of our home when she and I go to take Anya out for a long walk. At first when sage sees it she instantly deems the puppy to be hers as she has been wanting one for the past few months since meeting Julian's new puppy Senna when he brought her into Whisk Me Away~ for the first time. Sage absolutely begs us to just keep the puppy, but I know looking at how well cared for he/she happens to be that there is no way that no one is out there looking for him/her. So, I bring Anya back inside and we take a ride to the local vet and get the puppy checked over. We find out it is a he, he's a golden lab and his name is Dash and yes, he has owners who are looking for him. Sage is disappointed, but we're glad to return him to his owners.
2003
{Couple} Caleb Oliver [28] & Ava Rae [28]
{Pets} Anya [Savannah, 6]
{Children} Sage Clementine [5] Brent Edward [2]
Job - Things have just been amazing at Whisk Me Away~ since it first even opened and things have gotten just so much better. Recently, Julian an I went to Ironchef together and competed against Morimoto in the storyed kitchen in Battle Corn and we won and not only that we kicked his arse and that one showing has nearly tripled our business for the past six months so much so that both myself and Julian can give each other raises to enjoy, and put more money into the business as well.
Moving - Well, sadly life keeps handing us lemons. I'm not happy in the slightest and Caleb and I had a huge blow out fight and he ended up sleeping at work for a whole weekend. His company is asking us all to move away for huge promotion that will start with him taking an executive position starting up a new outpost for their firm in Switzerland. We'll need to move there for eight whole months. I'm livid. I can't be away from my business that long, but, what can we do? If Caleb doesn't do this he'll end up fired. I'm not happy about this, moving our kids around haphazardly and just...Hopefully patience will keep me sane.
2004
{Couple} Caleb Oliver [29] & Ava Rae [29]
{Pets} Anya [Savannah, 7]
{Children} Sage Clementine [6] Brent Edward [3] Cole Andrew [0]
Child - Well, just on time and with a little work for it, Caleb and I are happily expecting our third child together. We're having our second son and with that we converted the guest bedroom into a bedroom for the new baby, this time we did a navy blue paint on the room and decorated the nursery in a nautical theme. This pregnancy was a lot rougher on me for some reason and I ended up spending a lot of the earlier months of the pregnancy in bed feeling sick to my stomach. The whole thing was honestly miserable which is surprising as my previous two pregnancies went so smoothly. Of course, oddly enough, the pregnancy ended sooner then expected when on July 1st, 2004 I gave birth to Cole Andrew Rothschild oh and he was born at home, and not at the hospital as I went into labor two weeks early and well, very fast and sudden, thankfully my father, Andrew, had been over and as a surgeon he helped me birth his second grandson. So, in honor of that we got rid of our original middle name and picked Andrew to honor my father. The baby has blonde hair once again and he has my blue eyes.
Family Matter - As our family budget has so greatly increased with both my own business doing exceedingly well and Caleb getting to move onto a few higher points in his career, well, we've decided to put some of that money to a very important factor of our life. Our children. Caleb and I have decided to move the kids to a private school Delacroix Academy. It is a very fine institution with 95% of its former students all attending ivy league colleges after graduation. The school runs from pre-k to high school. It is difficult to get into, but luckily Caleb's boss' wife is the school's current head of trust and Caleb's boss is very fond of him so she took our application in and moved it up to the top of the board. We've enrolled Sage into their first grade class, she'll need to do some catching up to the other kids but we feel she'll adjust well, and Brent into their starting pre-k course. Cole will start attending Delacroix when he is three as well. It's going to cost us, but it's the best step for the kids education.
2005
{Couple} Caleb Oliver [30] & Ava Rae [30]
{Pets} Anya [Savannah, 8] Oreo [Great Dane, 0]
{Children} Sage Clementine [7] Brent Edward [4] Cole Andrew [1]
Child - Only a year after having Cole, Caleb and I get the shock of a lifetime. We found out we were pregnant again, however we found out in the worse way possible. I experienced a miscarriage. It was horrendous to go through, even though we hadn't tried for the child that we lost, Caleb and I were devastated. We both love children and have always taken a stance of what will be will be and if we get pregnant than we'll welcome more light and love into our life, thankfully we're able to think this way as we both work in situations that our providing us with an abundance of money to rely on where we can put half of our earnings to our living now, a quarter of it into savings and another quarter into investment. The loss of this child certainly fuels both my own and Caleb's desire to treasure our family. We don't tell the kids about it though, they're too young.
Pet - After losing our latest child something at home just feels empty and after some discussion, Caleb and I decide to get another pet. We take a poll at home and the pet of choice happens to be to get a dog. However, we're having some trouble picking what kind of breed we're going to get. The choices are a Bernese Mountain Dog, a Siberian Husky, a Samoyed or a Great Dane. We decide to do some coin flipping and in the end the Great Dane, Brent's choice, won. We picked out a female puppy that is mostly white with some black spots on it. As Brent's choice in dog was chosen we allowed Sage to name her, she picked the name Oreo. Not what Caleb and I were going for, but we allowed it. She's a happy welcome member of our family.
2006
{Couple} Caleb Oliver [31] & Ava Rae [31]
{Pets} Anya [Savannah, 9] Oreo [Great Dane, 1]
{Children} Sage Clementine [8] Brent Edward [5] Cole Andrew [2]
Pet - Lately, since we've gotten Oreo she's been a lot of trouble. We adore her greatly, but she just isn't taking to training and learning her commands and not destroying things. Let's just say we're currently on our third couch since we've gotten her and Caleb and I were nearly at our wits end, thankfully, my best friend and business partner Julian provided us with the name of a great trainer in the local area that he used when he got his puppy, Senna. We make the choice to bring Oreo to classes twice a week on Wednesday and Sunday, Eery other day we swtich who goes with either me and Brent or Caleb and Sage going each time for the most part unless one of the kids are sick or Caleb and I have work issues, we then just swap places. Thankfully, the training goes well and we'll continue it through the year.
Job - Things have been going well lately and just as I prayed when we were trapped in Switzerland for many, many months things are getting better for Caleb in the workplace and for example he'd just received another promotion. We're both pretty sure his boss is very fond of him for a multitude of reasons. It's giving us a wonderful time here at work, the extra cash making other burdens of life not so burdensome at all.
2007
{Couple} Caleb Oliver [32] & Ava Rae [32]
{Pets} Anya [Savannah, 10] Oreo [Great Dane, 2]
{Children} Sage Clementine [9] Brent Edward [6] Cole Andrew [3] Flora Rosemary [0]
Travel - Caleb and I have decided to treat ourselves to a little fun time together as a couple. We call up his parents, Sam and Lia, and let them know a month beforehand what we'd like to do and they of course agree to fly down for five days, the day before we leave until the day after we leave so we can spend some time with them as well. The trip will be a three day weekend trip to Niagara Falls. We see the falls, spend some time in Canada and even find a field where we pick wild raspberries. It's a wonderful time and it is good for Sam and Lia to spend time with their grandkids.
Child - It seems perhaps that we're on a three year continuing streak. We're expecting once more and I am doing everything to keep this new little miracle child here and safe. We're expecting our second girl and Sage is thrilled to bits. She had wanted Cole to be a little sister, and though she loves her brother, and she was disappointed when he wasn't one. It's been two years since my miscarriage and I feel like I've moved on from it and this new baby will make the weight a little less heavy. Currently, we've set up the crib in our room for her, but we'll need to either make some kind of expansion, change something up or move homes soon as we don't have a fifth bedroom planned in the house. On June 30th, 2007 we welcomed little Flora Rosemary Rothschild into the world three days early, oh and without Caleb there. Caleb had been picking Sage, Brent and Cole up from Delacroix when I went into labor and unfortunately they got stuck behind rush hour traffic after already being delayed by a minor car accident slowing traffic before even that so he missed Flora's birth. I wasn't angry with him, just the situation itself. However, when he got there and held Flora my heart melted, she's so beautiful with her soft downy, brown hair and green eyes.
2008
{Couple} Caleb Oliver [33] & Ava Rae [33]
{Pets} Anya [Savannah, 11] Oreo [Great Dane, 3]
{Children} Sage Clementine [10] Brent Edward [7] Cole Andrew [4] Flora Rosemary [1] Kane Beckett [0]
Child - Well, our three year stint didn't work out anymore it would seem as I'm pregnant once more, just like the last pregnancy I'm much more careful and spend more time off of my feet both at work and at home and Caleb really steps up as well as Sage helping him out which I am so appreciative of in light of the situation. I just don't want to risk anything. We're expecting our third boy. We're currently stuck on a first name as I like the name Kane and Caleb likes the name Holt for his first name. We're going to hold onto the names and then when he's born we'll make a choice. Both sets of our parents come in to make sure the occasion is right and as to be a aprt of the birth and be in the room when I give birth and Caleb and I decide to let them. On November 15th, 2008 with both sets of his grandparents there our little man arrived and with his brown hair and green eyes, and we just knew that he was meant to be Kane Beckett Rothschild. Needless to say that with his birth, having two little ones in our room just isn't going to work.
Random - Thankfully, we have the money to make it all better. We decide to do some remodeling on the house, some serious remodeling. First we purchased a lot behind us that gave us a large addition of space, a whole acres worth of space, We then rented a two-story cottage and it is a little big of a squeeze for six full months of near torture in all honesty, but we get through it and in the end come out better, as the house gets the addition of five new bedrooms, three full bathrooms, two half bathrooms, our kitchen in made larger and has new counters and in addition we have a much larger backyard that we've given fences that are not chain, just stone walls that are a nice twelve feet high so no one can see into our backyard and Anya cannot jump out. When we move back, all the kids have their own room and we even have room for three guest room for our family.
2009
{Couple} Caleb Oliver [34] & Ava Rae [34]
{Pets} Anya [Savannah, 12] Oreo [Great Dane, 4]
{Children} Sage Clementine [11] Brent Edward [8] Cole Andrew [5] Flora Rosemary [2] Kane Samuel [1] Luke Dayton [0] Holt Samuel [0]
Child - I'm not even sure how this has happened, not including the older kids we have two kids two and under! Oh, it's going to now be four kids under three. That is right, we're expecting not one more child, but two more. I'm completely shocked and so is Caleb. This was not something we were planning for any time soon and well, we're rethinking our whole let what will be will be. Not to say we aren't excited for the twins, but it puts some pressure and strain on my career and on Whisk Me Away~, not to mention it didn't help that Caleb didn't find out from me, he found out from Julian. We're expecting boys, and so for now we'll keep them in one room to make things easier, but after their third birthday we'll separate them into their own rooms. On May 31st, 2009 we welcomed our two new boys, Luke Dayton Rothschild and Holt Samuel Rothschild. They're perfect. Holt has blonde hair and blue eyes while Luke has brown hair and blue eyes.
Random - I will never take my family for granted again. Today I was in a car accident, a drunk driver hit my car and thankfully it was just me in the car and no one got hurt, the car did roll over and get beat up, but well, that is a small price to pay instead of someone in he family getting hurt. I'll certainly continue to treasure my family and be much more careful.
2010
{Couple} Caleb Oliver [35] & Ava Rae [35]
{Pets} Anya [Savannah, 13] Oreo [Great Dane, 5]
{Children} Sage Clementine [12] Brent Edward [9] Cole Andrew [6] Flora Rosemary [3] Kane Samuel [2] Luke Dayton [1] Holt Samuel [1]
Moving - Well, we're moving once more for Caleb's job. Thankfully it is during the summer. We'll be moving for two whole months and get back just in time for the kids to start the school year. I'm once more not happy, but this is just our life as it is. We're going to Holland. We're staying in a very large one story cottage. It's very homey which helps and everything, but it isn't home. I can't wait to get back to my own house my business. Of course we bring Anya and Oreo with us, which helps a little.
Random - Well, while we're away, I decide at least we can get something nice done. I have the house renovated, the kids rooms all redone with fun themes pertaining to their current likes for the older kids such as Harry Potter, Space and Frozen for an example of some of them. I also have the family room redone, add in space for a new duel office for myself and Caleb, a second guest bedroom and the addition of large pool with a jacuzzi for the backyard, the pool even has a bar to swim up to. Oh, and a ginormous luxury tree mansion, yes, mansion.
2011
{Couple} Caleb Oliver [36] & Ava Rae [36]
{Pets} Anya [Savannah, 14] Oreo [Great Dane, 6]
{Children} Sage Clementine [13] Brent Edward [10] Cole Andrew [7] Flora Rosemary [4] Kane Samuel [3] Luke Dayton [2] Holt Samuel [2]
Job - Caleb received a much deserved this year, it felt wonderful, and well, money always coming into the home considering the cost of sending five, soon to be seven kids to a private school that is off the charts expensive. Not to mention all their activities and things they need in their lives. It's hard, but we're thankfully well off enough to do it and do it right.
Travel - I've been invited to be a guest judge on Top Chef: Desserts. I'm floored and super excited, so I'll have to fly out to LA, where Top Chef: Desserts is being hosted, for a whole week. In the end, we deicde to go as a family. We drop Anya and Oreo off with my parents for the week and head to LA. While there we stay with Caleb's parents and take the time to visit and be with them while we're there.
The Rothschild Family
DH: Caleb Oliver Rothschild [36] [Blonde Hair and Green Eyes] [b. 7/13/1975]
DW: Ava Rae Rothschild (nee Day) [36] [Brown Hair and Blue Eyes] [b. 7/10/1975]
DD: Sage Clementine Rothschild [13] [Blonde Hair and Blue Eyes] [b. 1/1/1998]
DS: Brent Edward Rothschild [10] [Blonde Hair and Green Eyes] [b. 8/8/2001]
DS: Cole Andrew Rothschild [7] [Blonde Hair and Blue Eyes] [b. 4/1/2004]
DD: Flora Rosemary Rothschild [4] [Brown Hair and Green Eyes] [b. 6/30/2007]
DS: Kane Beckett Rothschild [3] [Brown Hair and Green Eyes] [b. 11/15/2008]
DS: Luke Dayton Rothschild [2] [Brown Hair and Blue Eyes] [b. 5/31/2009]
DS: Holt Samuel Rothschild [2] [Blonde Hair and Blue Eyes] [b. 5/31/2009]
Cat: Anya [14] [Savannah] [b. 1997]
Dog: Oreo [5] [Great Dane] [b. 2005]
Caleb and Ava Rothschild; with Sage, Brent, Cole, Flora, Kane, Luke & Holt + Anya & Oreo