NEW YORK, USA: So much for a relaxing Saturday!

NEW YORK, USA: So much for a relaxing Saturday!

AppleHarvestIn the Jewish religion, Saturdays are the Sabbath.  Saturday is the “7th day”, the day of rest, to relax and spend quality time with family and friends.  Not working or stressing – you can do that the other 6 days of the week.  🙂

I am not very religious, but I do believe that it is important to have quality time together, time to enjoy being together as a family.  I enjoy taking the kids to the children’s services at the synagogue and spending time within the community there.  But on Saturday a few weeks ago I managed to overbook us, and I really wanted to do all of it!  (more…)

Maman Aya (USA)

Maman Aya is a full-time working mother of 2 beautiful children, a son who is 6 and a daughter who is two. She is raising her children in the high-pressure city of New York within a bilingual and multi-religious home. Aya was born in Canada to a French mother who then swiftly whisked her away to NYC, where she grew up and spent most of her life. She was raised following Jewish traditions and married an Irish Catholic American who doesn’t speak any other language (which did not go over too well with her mother), but who is learning French through his children. Aya enjoys her job but feels “mommy guilt” while at work. She is lucky to have the flexibility to work from home on Thursdays and recently decided to change her schedule to have “mommy Fridays”, but still feels torn about her time away from her babies. Maman Aya is not a writer by any stretch of the imagination, but has been drawn in by the mothers who write for World Moms Blog. She looks forward to joining the team and trying her hand at writing!

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