Throwback Tuesday: Artist and Audubon Centers

*Originally posted July 11, 2014 when my boys were ages 6, 8, & 10. Alec was signed up for an art class that met each day and did a painting of a different bird and season each day. I had to wake all my boys up at 8:00 yesterday morning. I understood that they wanted to sleep in, it has been torture for me to try and get out of bed early during summer as well, but with Alec's 4th and last art class we had to be out of the house on time. He has been having such a great time paintings birds all week. They all ate breakfast at the same time and I took that moment of us all sitting around the table to pull out our Harry Potter book and read another chapter. I could have been doing dishes or laundry but decided all that other stuff could wait. We happily laughed together over the antics of the characters in the story and talked about our upcoming day. We all piled into the car and listened to Percy Jackson on the way to the art studio. Once...