I love Mondays. Yes I know most do not, but Justin has Mondays off, so
we always spend the day doing something together. We try to make it our day,
now we have Jarvis, it has become our ‘family day’.
As with every Monday, Jarvis
has his swimming lesson in the morning then we do something.
This week we went into GOMA, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, at South Bank. I love it there, so much so I use to work at the
gallery. Lucky for me Jarvis also loves it there; this is because the gallery
always has spaces dedicated to children. The whole bottom level is just for
kids, The Children's Art Centre; it has interactive projects, activities and
publications for children and families.
However, at the moment Jarvis’s
favorite space in the gallery is up on the third floor, Paramodel
joint factory 2012’. Jarvis will spend
ages re-arranging the train pieces. Also he loves to flirt with a young red
hair girl who works there.
The other exhibition Jarvis
likes is the Richard Maloy, Yellow
or blue? 2012. Justin and I made Jarvis a costume out of the
cardboard, however, Jarvis was not impressed with it.
After a couple of hours at
GOMA, we wandered across the bridge into the city, stopping off at the Shingle
Inn to have a hot chocolate. Who knew that hot chocolates came with
instructions? Jarvis liked the booth, and that he got to colour in while we drank our drinks.
Over all a lovely day together
being tourist in our own city. The only blimp on the radar was on the walk back
over the bridge a man purposely slammed into me. (There was heaps of space, so
I assume he did this on purpose). At the same time grabbing my breast. (Buddy
after breastfeeding and at my age there is not much to grab). At first I was
upset, then I thought why let this arrogant aggressive male get to me, But
then I also thought, “What would his mother think?”
All of this left me thinking…
I am raising a boy, a future man. How do we know when we are ‘getting it right’?
Or how do we stuff up, some mothers must have raised this type of male. So
mothers of boys out there, how do we raise our boys to be the men we want them
to be?
