On My Way To Heaven

My children know it, summers are the perfect time to visit our big city museums. Living in a big city has many inconveniences, but one of the great things about the big city is all the museums you can visit.

Visiting a  museum, for me, is a gift. I love to see and imagine the story behind the paintings, behind the objects. What was the painter thinking when he brushed each stroke of painting, sometimes so smoothly, others so thickly? Just standing in front of it and watching carefully the masterpiece, is a unique experience.

We have visited museums since my children were very little; every trip to a big city, they know, includes at least one visit to the major art museum. And this summer, we opened the vault with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

And it was a joy to see our little one, holding hands with her best friend, and walking with such an enthusiasm through it. We just studied this past school year, the Ancient World, and she was so excited to walk from one room to the other discovering what she had learned at home. Both girls loved the visit, enjoyed the walk, talked about the art exhibited, and all this holding hands, just as best friends do!

This summer, won’t be the exception, today we are heading to a new temporary exhibit entitled Moana, Cultures from the Pacific Islands; some of our friends are coming along and we are excited.

We will, again, discover things together.

Just an idea:
What we have done in past summers is visit one of the many galleries
of a big museum every week. When we finish with hat museum we
start with another. This has worked out great, because little children,
and those not so little, have benefited the most, and truly enjoy the
visit.
If you have little ones, do not be intimidated, take them too!
Short visits, and lots of talking afterwards will be great for them.
They will learn to love it!
And finally, I have this saying "A visit to the Museum is
never complete until you visit the shop and the café"

Enjoy your little ones, enjoy your journey; remember that all goodness comes from our Heavenly Father!

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