Omaya Bellavoine - owner of Cake Couture Marbella and La
Parisienne, has lived in Los Naranjos nearly 20 years with her husband -
Arnaud, three cute children: Soraya (17), Yara (age 12) and Sacha (4 years),
and an important character is the dog Yoda.
Let’s describe an ordinary
day of you?
I usually try to get up
before the children, prepare clothes and then I wake them up, prepare lunch for
them while let them having breakfast, then we hurry to get into the car and go
to school, emphasized the word “hurry”. Once the kids are in school, based on cake
reservation schedule, I will decide to go to the restaurant or bakery. If there
are more cake orders, I will go to the restaurant at 1.00pm and stay there
until picking up the kids after school. This is the time my third job
officially begins: being mother, compared to outside jobs, being mother is
actually much more difficult. I take care the kids when they do exercise or
take shower, preparing dinner. The time that whole family sitting around the dinner
table is the best thing in the day, we both relax and tell each other about our
day. After the kids go to bed, I spend an hour for mysefl to relax my mind and
then fell asleep.
How can you balance
motherhood and the business?
Not always easy, but I am lucky
enough when one of my works allows me to work from home. My bakery shop for
Cake Couture Marbella is located in the previous garage area, this allows me to
working and taking care children at home. As I said, I always use the school time
of children to manage the La Parisienne restaurant. My job could not run well
if I do not have great support of my husband, he is always willing to pick up
the kids when I am too busy with work or actively preparing dinner for me when
I exhausted.
Do you have time to relax?
Actually ... no. I am a “workaholic”
and I am rarely free, because then I'm easy to get bored, I force myself to
find something to do. When I have a little free time, I will spend it to the
children.
How can the children inspire
you?
I am very lucky to have 3
beautiful children in both appearance and spirit. Two older girls, 17 and 13
year old, are old enough to need mom as much as before, so they help me to take
care my youngest. He has just turned 4 and it also realizes that mom can not
always spend as much time for him. I'm really proud of my children, and when we
say we are also proud of me ... well, that is truly priceless words. They have
inspired me to set up the Cake Couture Marbella bakery. I've done a lot of
birthday cakes for them until one day I decided to turn my talent into a real
job.
What do you love most when being
a mom?
Everything! I have 3 kids
with different ages: youth, teen and kid. It used to be a careful thought
process, I always wanted to have more children, and I have deliberately waited
long time to decide to have the youngest, because I do not want my children to
grow up and leave me too soon. I love smelling fragrance on my youngest’s hair,
as well as listen to the stories of the oldest, but above all, my heart melted
to hear them whispering “I love you”.
What is the ideal model of
a mother that you want to reach?
I can not answer this
question exactly, I think, all mothers will try their best in this case, and
for children with different characteristics, requiring the mother must also
have respective way of treatment.
Do you feel difficult to
take your family to live in Marbella?
It was a really difficult
decision because the biggest concern is about children's education, and we
actually want them to agree. If they are not comfortable, we will never move to
live in Marbella. Fortunately, they love Aloha college when we have the
opportunity to visit the school, and they are quite familiar with the lifestyle
because we often take vacation here. We believe that life quality of children
have improved a lot. If we did not move to this place, maybe the kids would
have had to live in a cold country and could not go out frequently.
How will you enjoy “Mother's
Day”?
Like every year, I will try
to wake up late and let the kids surprise me by making a special breakfast. With
father’s help, they will prepare a tray of delicious food and a branch of fresh
flower. I hope that my second daughter will write a beautiful poem for me,
eldest daughter will give me the gift that she had prepared the previous night,
and the youngest son will give me a special portrait. It is a day I really do nothing
and just enjoy happiness of being a mom.
