I must admit that we don't often take field trips. After today I've decided that we will be taking them more often. Our oldest son is 10 and absolutely loves Norman Rockwell. Well, a local art museum was exhibiting his work and I thought it would be great to take the children, and my mother there. I too love Norman Rockwell's work, and even more so after today. The exhibit was great. One room had a couple hundred of the Saturday Evening Post covers. It was amazing to look for the first time at many of his works that I haven't seen in the giant coffee table books.

On the way home we talked about what our favorite painting was and why and what our least favorite was and why. Our son's most favorite was one titled "A Scout is Helpful". He said it was his favorite because he's a boy scout, but I think it goes much deeper than that. It's been his favorite for a while and he was very excited to point it out to me and to stare at it for a long time.

Our daughter who is 9 also loved the exhibit and her favorite was of a very large baker on his lunch break. He's sitting next to racks of delicious looking cakes while reading a book entitled "How To Diet" and on a plate in front of him is a cut up carrot. ha! Don't we all know that feeling right after the new year begins!

Our five year old was bored and had no interest in playing the "What fun musical instrument do you see in this picture? game". His response? "A kangaroo...can we go now?" Our almost two year old did very well, but wanted to get up and run all over and was having no part of wearing his "monkey backpack", a.k.a. toddler leash. Ah well. I would have been bored too at that age. I think when the children get older, a trip to the Norman Rockwell Museum in Massachusetts will be on our "places to go" list.

As for now, I think we might try the science center or the history museum next. Oh, and there's an auto and aviation museum that our 5 year old would love! He's an airplane fanatic.

Jennifer :)