lazy days

We feel ourselves getting lazy. I try to remind myself that this is a vacation, but it can definitely be frustrating not having a goal. Today we did not do anything new or different and I feel a bit guilty about that. We did, though, take the kids to the beach twice... We did realize late last night (the 1st) that the next day was our 9th anniversary and come up with a plan to have dessert together after my French class. We did go to a French candy shop and discovered that Bella loves Marzipan cherries and Eilidh does not. We realized (big surprise) that everything from a French candy shop is a treat for Balika. Eilidh has determined that her favorite French cheese is Comte and we bought more of that. We went up to the cemetery a short walk away and became obsessed with the biggest and most intriguingly sensitive sculpture there... then came home and googled the family to realize that their two children had both died young and they had gone on to serve the city of Nice and then donate the bulk of their estate to the city, which then turned around and commissioned this grand sculpture for their family. We realized that, after 4 hours of Fish's French lessons and 2 hours of mine, that we are unused to being students and that our throats will become raw with attempting (poorly in Balika's case) the French R. Balika realized that the French E and U are almost indistinguishable. We had epiphanies about teaching (more paper & info is not always better, being able to take risks in the classroom is the most important element to learning & that laughing makes the time goes faster). We feel humbled by our aging minds and the conjugation of verbs. We realized that we have to have goals for the next day in order for anything to happen besides eating & walking aimlessly.