WHAT IS A HERO?

Today is Sunday, Aug 23rd, marking the end of a vacation week - for my husband that is! 

It was my intention to have orders caught up, shipped and book the same week free, but anyone, any woman/wife/mother who is self-employed that is, knows how it goes.  A thousand and one things to try and accomplish in the course of a day in addition to the full-time job of operating a business - kids, husband, home, dog etc etc etc. and having all work out exact and according to schedule enough to empty out the studio and hang the "ON VACATION" sign on the virtual door is not always as easy as one would imagine it to be. And so, we decide that this will be the week that Joe catches up on his to-do list (or my "to do list" for him, more like it) as I hand him his 1001 things to accomplish on his week off including his favorite of all jobs, painting...NOT!! How someone can NOT find painting relaxing,

NEVER TOO YOUNG OR OLD TO LEARN

I don't know if it's just me, or if some are more easily able to grasp a second language than others. 

Throughout grade school, we had 45 minutes of French class per day, for as long as I can remember! For years, we seemed to go over the same verbs, the same pronouns, the same phrases and my skills never seeming to advance. We seemed to learn no more the next year than we had the previous leaving me still to confuse "tu a, il a, nous avons, vous avez" and "tu est, il est, nous etre, vous etre"...see?? Still confused! Living in an officially bilingual province, I learned later in adulthood just how necessary that second language would be, but ironically finding it even harder now as an adult to open up my brain and let it in. So how is it then, that a toddler can learn a second language and be fluent, in two years?