Rainy, lazy afternoon. Although Fall is calling you with her colorful attire to join her, jumping in puddles in your rain boots and coat, sometimes it is nice to stay in your PJ’s, to stay in, relax and enjoy doing nothing. Unfortunately, in our family doing nothing is completely out of the question and “doing nothing” actually means “do-something-we-don’t-usually-do-but-will-enjoy-doing”, so it was no surprise my little one challenged me to have a Draw-Off.

” What’s a Draw-Off?” I said, hoping to hear her colorful explanation. She loves to talk, but what she loves even more is to explain things to you. And she’s pretty good at it, I have to admit, so I don’t miss a chance to make her “explain” things to me, because as she says, she has “her own version” every time you ask.

“It’s like a Bake-Off, but we’re drawing, you know, with pencils”, she chirps.

“Done”, I say and we begin to get our “artist materials” out.

“What should we draw then?” I ask her.

” Let’s draw Daddy, because we love him so much.”

What a wonderful idea! We are also lucky that Daddy is sleeping, so it will be easy.
We set the timer and we draw- 15 minutes on a sketch.