Adventures

To make life more exciting (for me, if not Eli) I try to get out of the house as much as possible during the day now that it is not freezing outside. Yesterday we went to the Museum of Modern Art, not because I could not live without getting to know the works of the celebrated Venezuelan artist, Armando Reveron (which, by the way, are quite lovely: http://moma.org/exhibitions/2007/reveron/); rather I decided to act like I had imagined motherhood would be: going around town with my cute baby, taking advantage of the freedom from corporate slavery and doing interesting things that I never get to do when I have to work all the time. Of course, having a tiny little baby is also a kind of slavery, but one that you take on voluntarily and at any rate a much more emotionally fulfilling.

At the museum I walked around the main galleries that exhibit all this amazing art and in my half-delirious tired state all the Kandinsky, Matisse, Bonnard and the like paintings seemed like an amalgamation colors and shapes that I could not quite make out, but it was still somehow a pleasure for the soul. A lot of people looked at me kindly when they noticed Eli in the baby carrier on my chest and a French couple approached me and the man made a strange comment. After stating that the baby was very cute and asking me what his name was he said, in French by that point: "He will be an artist if he is exposed so early to art or if not an artist then a rabbi, he is a little Jew, isn't he?" He said this with kindness, almost complicity, like he is Jewish too, and I just smiled at them, but afterwards I found it quite bizarre; after all, how was he to know? He did not look at his little penis to know for sure...

Anyway, today we are going to see the Park Slope ladies and their offspring and I am sure I will find out more about being an organic Mom.