Easy Sunday lunching at Junipas.

Yesterday my son and I hooked up with the aunties MK and Tebogo for Sunday downtime. After a relatively hectic weekend, flash backs to Lucia’s birthday party, Taboo, a bar tending stint as well as a short lived dj'ing career later and this is exactly what the doctor ordered! (details of which are to follow in next weeks post) Sunday lunch at Junipas was a welcomed relief. It took my son and I 4 hours to get ready, single moms can proceed to testify. EVERYTHING takes longer when tending to a child. So 4 hrs of preparation later I rolled up to MK’s spot and after much deliberation decided to avoid the regular spots and see what was really good at Hobart Grove.

Mk ordered the beef fillet accompanied by potato wedges, crispy green beans & a Mediterranean Salsa and I, a designer vegetarian pizza. Fig, tallegio & ricotta with sage and honey. Now as one black person to another I need not explain my affinity for 4 legged creatures that once walked the earth namely pig, cow, lamb, sheep, kudu, wildebees etc so to choose a vegetarian meal and not supplement it with a side of say, wings or even chicken livers is saying something. Yum! If you’re in a “detox” kinda mood I would suggest it. On the drive back home I told MK I was definitely going to make my own version but, she sheepishly admits, with pancetta.

Before the infamous laugh-cry

Immediately after said laugh-cry. wtfrickadel?

Tebogo joined us and we spoke as we always do about boys, relationships and generally things around sistahood. Unlike most conversations this was centered around concern. Our concerns with respect to our relationships with other women, them with certain boys and or undesirables etc. The general theme was on the quality of our relationships. As we get older it is definitely something we’ve all had to pay particular attention to. I think that we’re all alot more aware of the company we keep. I for one, often accused of not being open minded, have tried my best in letting go of certain prejudices and letting more people into my life. It’s so important that you keep yourself surrounded by like-minded individuals and to never shy from those personalities that are bigger than yours. Just mulling over the people who we attract and chose to retain I’m reminded by a quote I read on http://allencoleman.tumblr.com. Amidst the dope street fashion photography was this;

"Surround yourself with successful people and jealousy will rent your mind for a while but motivation will move in forever".

In a much earlier exchange with Tebogo we spoke at great length about the fine balance between the social activities, the time for self and time where you can say you genuinely engaged with another. Its so easy to get caught up in the cycle of dinners, Champagne Thursdays, Tequila Tuesdays, Sunday lunches over here and finally to drinks at this place or the other that you can get lost in it as much as the average 22 year old gets lost at ALS.

I think that was what was so nice about Sunday. It was lazy and real. Not heightened as it usually is and don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with those moments but we’re all about balance right? Right. 

A Sunday lunch with my son’s occasional laugh-cry over MK’s and Tebogos “ohmigads” and occasional “friend!” and “you know what I mean”. Between the 2 of these aunties the phrases are worse for wear! The laugh-cry I’m referring to is a copyrighted mixture of a laugh and cry that my son has perfected. Is he crying, laughing perhaps still deciding? Who knows!*chuckles*

Really though, here’s to the pauses in-between the rawkus.

Until next time, Feast!