Nothing Too Exciting

I feel like I should have lots of exciting things to post on this big adventure, but I don't. Learning a language is just a lot of tedious work. Plus, having small kids is kind of tedious work too. Everyday seems to be the same. Get up, way to early, try and get Creed to finish his breakfast in less than an hour, get dressed, get them to school. Granted the last two days Creed has finished his oatmeal at record pace and beaten Laney. That is the exciting news in this house. Breakfast has been an issue for him his whole life, or at least an issue (pain) for me. We have tried a laundry list of tactics with the one of not caring being the best. "Eat it, don't eat it, whatever; but nothing else until you do". I put pineapple in his oatmeal the last couple days and he ate it fast and mostly by himself. Not sure if we have turned a new leaf over or not. He has had pineapple before with not as good results. Folks, that is the excitement over here. We have the same issues we did at home. I guess the good news is is that it does not surprise me, at least as far as the kids are concerned. Granted I did hope that somehow being here I would just miraculously pick up Spanish. That is not the case. It is A LOT of work, with at the moment, not feeling like a lot of results. I think there are numerous issues. One being every conversations ends kind of awkward or a little confusing. I think the conversations are longer than they use to be, but they just go until I do not know what is going on. It is hard feeling clueless so much. I believe it is all paying off and will come together, but it is hard. I am changing some classes around to have more from my favorite teacher. I am excited to spend a lot of time with her starting next week. She somehow gets me talking a ton (in spanish of course) and teaches me through that. I am hoping I will start to much better. It is hard too b/c you have one really good conversation and then the next minute you do not understand the next person at all. Un poco y poco. That is my new mantra. They say it takes kids longer to learn a language than adults (ask Jason he has done a ton of research on this). If we spent as much time as they do we would know it really well, however, I believe there is a huge mental advantage that they have. They do not care if they are wrong or corrected, whether they are totally understood. Laney enjoys playing with her classmates, it does not bother her that she does not understand them. That is huge people. I want to be able to communicate well and be able to understand people. I guess when I talk about kids I mean little ones like I have. I am glad it is not traumatic for them, I just wish it was not for me too. There is a lot of self talk involved in trying to remain positive and realize how much we are learning. I am so glad we have this opportunity to this. It is a great learning experience personally as well as the language. It is worth the work. I am just going to do the best I can and see where I am at in awhile. I cannot worry about whether I will be fluent or not. I think more people will understand me in a year than do now. I must keep my nose to the ground and stay focused. We are going to the Carribean in a week so will have more exciting news about that. If people would come visit then we would have more excuses to see this wonderful place.