Shop On Wednesday,
Cook In Big Batches
How two
busy families
Working couples rely
prepare for
on planning and
organizing to enjoy
a quiet Friday night
Shabbat.
with family.
For Shabbat,
the Shumans
enjoy challah
made at the
Temple Israel
preschool.
Cari Waldman
Special to The AppleTree
Tips For Getting Ready:
• Don't do too much
• Prepare simple meals
• Do as much as you can the night before
• Have children participate in setting the table
• Shop for groceries in the week before
* Prepare larger batches and freeze main courses
or the Shuman family of Farmington Hills, working together and preparing
the night before is key for successfully celebrating Shabbat.
Gary, a manager of the Visteon enterprise of Ford Motor Company,
and his wife, Stacey, also a manager at Ford, are the parents of three small
children — which means they easily could be exhausted by the time Shabbat
arrives. But at 7 p.m. Fridays, the Shumans sit down to reflect on the week,
light candles and celebrate as a family.
"Neither Stacey nor I celebrated Shabbat weekly in our homes as children,
but the first Friday night we brought our daughter Rachel home from the hospi-
tal, the Shabbat tradition was born in our Reform home," Gary says.
It's a tradition Gary and Stacey say will stay with their children — Rachel,
now 5; William, 3; and Andrew, 9 months — the rest of their lives.
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1999