Is the writing on the wall?  Has German lost out to Spanish in my house?

Except for my oldest child, all the ones who are old enough to talk don't want to learn German.  And the oldest one probably only likes German because he was exposed to it for a month in Germany at a formative age.  Both my daughters express dislike for German.  I tried to force them to learn it anyway by studying it at home and taking classes, and then surreptitiously by speaking to their younger siblings in German. Nothing doing. Although, they did tell me that they understood the German in a MacGyver episode they watched.

Our speech therapist speaks Spanish (as well as Finnish, Swedish, French, some Estonian and Portuguese, and of course English) and she has brought over a few books to use with the boys that have Spanish in them.  So Ryan has started becoming interested in Spanish words.  He will tell you if you ask, "Mommy speaks German and Spanish and a little bit of French."  I asked him yesterday which he liked, German or Spanish, and he said Spanish.

Studying Spanish as a family would be so much easier.  There are tons of free and inexpensive resources in Spanish.  We can go to Mass at our own church in Spanish.  We could find storytimes and playgroups and classes for homeschoolers just twenty minutes from our house.  I could find tons of support.  So why won't I just do the easier option?

Roger thinks I should do both.  He thinks I should make the children study German if that's what I want.  The problem is that I have been brain-dead since earlier this summer (hence why I haven't really been reading, writing, or blogging), and I don't think I can handle trying to do two languages with my children.  Although I have to keep working on my German anyway because I am scheduled to start teaching it again this spring!