I knew I would need to get the kids out of the house for the day while they worked on the room Friday. I didn't really have a good plan as I went to sleep Thursday night, but it came to me when I woke in the night - as if in a dream... I suddenly remembered we hadn't been to the Frost Art Museum at Florida International University since a few weeks before Natalie was born! This was an oversight because it is free and because they have an excellent children's area.
The kids were impressed with FIU's campus, I was a little overwhelmed because they have built so much since I worked there (1999-2001).
I'll credit the inspiration to googling Knud Pedersen the night before.
Knud Pederson was a Danish artist and founder of an art lending library
where people could borrow (or rather rent very cheaply) works of art
for a limited time. My interest in Mr. Pedersen came from reading a
book about his life during World War II called
The Boys who Challenged Hitler.
As a young teenager he organized groups of boys to sabotage German
military vehicles and sites and steal weapons. He also spent a while in
prison. Denmark had given in to the the Nazis early on and many of the
citizens were not happy about it. However in the beginning, not much
resistance was made. Knud's Churchill Club's actions and imprisonment
inspired his fellow Danes and by the time he was released from prison,
Denmark was very much resisting the Nazis.
I got the book thinking it would interest Caleb and I think about half of it will interest him. (Mostly because they blow more stuff up in the 1st half!) But I liked the whole thing and highly recommend the book.
So the Frost Museum
There is a room called the Family Room at the museum filled art supplies and creative play toys, it is not big enough for a large school group and no one was there, so we spent an hour or so there before looking at the gallery. The kids were not that impressed with the actual art gallery!
In short, it was a great way to spend part of our day out and hopefully we won't wait 6 1/2 years before we come back!
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