La routine

Elyse is continuing to make her mom proud. We just went to the market down the street to stock up on groceries, and she invested in the French equivalent of Swiffer. Renaud has this suitcase-like grocery bag with wheels that's covered in flowers and birds. I wanted a picture of him with it for my blog, but he refused. He claims it was left here by our house's previous occupants, so now he just uses it. The French use the word "truc" all the time--during one dinner, I swear Mme Daniel used it in four different contexts--and we never knew what it meant but finally looked it up and discovered it means "thing" and is often used for things one has trouble naming, which explains a lot. Elyse referred to Renaud's bag as son truc. I'll try to get a picture of it because the story would be much funnier that way.
We threw the first Sunday dinner party last night, which went over pretty well. Everyone brought/made a dish, so there was quite a lot of food--tortellini, green beans, tomatoes with cheese and capers, meats from the charcuterie, and crepes with nutella, bananas, and vanilla ice cream for dessert. And of course, bread, cheese, and wine. I meant to take more pictures, but I guess I got caught up in eating and such.

There's the table before the guests arrived. We were pretty excited.

Today marks the beginning of our first full week of classes. I am afraid the time is about to start going by very quickly. Twelve weeks seems so short when I think of it that way! So much to do before then....geez