Thanks everyone. I will "mull" everything over. My kids have decided they want to learn as my son is beginning to lose his hearing as well. Daughter just wants to school credit. Hubby has agreed to try for sanity's sake. Mother and mother-in-law have said, that if I sign while talking, they will begin to pick it up, but other than that, they will try harder.
My uncle in NJ has begun to send me emails with videos he's made and provided the wording (until I learn enough sign) for our weekly letters. He wants me to try the same. I wasn't aware he knew ASL since I am the only hoh/deaf person in the family. He learned for me and I haven't physically seen him for 25 years. He's my mother's baby brother. He and his family learned to support me from afar. He felt that it was the least he could do since his intelligence limits a lot of things. He is a professor of Ethics and Applied Mathematics (think Charlie Eppes on Numb3rs, CBS).
