Christian has his first final exam today.  Tomorrow, Kelly has her first.  Both of the kids continue to study hard.  They will both be finished by Tuesday.  We have decided we need to do some creative stuff over the holidays, so we ordered some new art books.  The books we ordered are The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and Drawing for Older Children and Teens. Both of those books are come highly recommended.  We plan to work our way through them just like we worked our way through Mark Kistler’s Draw Squad and Secrets to Drawing Realistic Faces. That was did not quite get us to the total we needed to get free shipping on our Amazon order, so we also ordered Christian’s favorite, a box of #2 Black Warrior pencils.  Lorena bought us a 750 piece puzzle last week, so we are all set.  We hope to draw for and hour or so per day for as many days as possible during Christmas vacation.  We will try to put some of our results here.