Spreading Out
With friends, phone chargers, laundry, and after-school gigs multiplying, teenagers pose new challenges for Lily Kanter’s maturing family
Despite being a Microsoft powerhouse and promising philanthropist featured on the cover of Time magazine, Lily Kanter left the corporate world
She had met Marc Sarosi, the owner of Africa Gems, before Internet dating—through a personal ad. He paid $50 extra to put his headline in bold type: Gem in the Rough. They both wanted a family. And every Friday night, as Kanter and Sarosi gather at their long dining room table with their three teenage sons and one or two other families for a Shabbat dinner, she knows she made the right decision. “Since I left my corporate job,” she says, “I’ve been charting my own path of what brings me joy every day.
“Since I left my corporate job, I’ve been charting my own path of what brings me joy every day.”
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During the renovation, the family put an emphasis on storage in the bedrooms. “We love home organization,” says Kanter, who devotes several hours a week to reordering a closet or room. “Organization makes me happy and more relaxed. There is such a sense of joy to open a perfectly organized closet, not to mention a great way to find what you’re looking for,” she says. “Our house is plenty messy, but thankfully we have lots of closet space, so I tuck it all away. It’s amazing what a decluttered space does for the mind.”
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Claudia Dowling
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