I have Keira to thank for this post.

The other day when we were at the library, after we had exhausted the kid’s section, then the DVDs, we finally got to ‘my’ turn, which usually means I get a quick look at the non-fiction return trolley before one (or both) of the kids has a tantrum with the waiting.

At such times, to keep herself amused, Keira often runs off and randomly pulls books off the shelves. What she discovers is better than Google’s “Surprise Me!” search option. You want to know about the Trans-Siberian Railway? Thomas Eddison? How to cook authentic Moroccan food? Executing the perfect knitting stitches? Animal Husbandry? Keira will (and has) found it.

This happened again the other day, except this time she struck gold. I have often lamented my lack of drawing skills. Little did I realise there were books out there to help remedy my situation.

She pulled this book off and since then we’ve been experimenting together, enjoying our craft time all the more (well, I have) because now I can do more than draw tic-tack-toe grids and endless, endless cubes, with the occasional roof on top to make a suburb of homes because I realise these drawings may one day be used against me in a court of law and I want to demonstrate some sort of ‘maternal identity’.

So, if you’d like to brush up your skills, perhaps do a search at your library for “drawing” or something similar. Under the Dewey categorisation system, these books are numbered 741-743, so it might be quicker to start there.