I was in way over my head, yet I kept letting others down
People sometimes ask me how I do it — I’m a young mom to five cute little (perfect?) beings under the age of six, an entrepreneur with a therapy practice serving clients around the world, and an olah chadashah.
The honest truth? I’m not really sure what “doing it” means in your book, but I’ll share with you what my version of it looks like and how I got there.
My husband and I had always dreamed of making aliyah. For a while, it was never the “right time.” We got married, I was still in school, and then our family grew quickly, baruch Hashem. Two weeks after I had twins, I was taking grad school finals. My husband had to come and bring along the twins so that I could feed them in between exams. Life was hectic, and our dream remained a dream.
But finally, in 2020, as Covid started to spread, my husband and I decided that if we were ever going to go for it, now was the time. I actually had a crying session when the pandemic first broke out, fearful that, after all this time, Mashiach was going to get to Eretz Yisrael before I was.
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