The Night Before the Night Before Christmas

Happy Christmas Eve Eve! Today we finished all of our shopping for tomorrow's meal. The 24th is the important day here in France and we're going to follow that tradition and make a semi-traditional Christmas Eve meal tomorrow night. (and if you're curious about what 'semi-traditional' means, stay tuned for another post explaining this at a later date!)

I still can't believe Carlos has been off for a week! We've had a few appointments so perhaps that's why I feel like he's only been home for a few days. It's been great to relax and hang out, but we haven't been completely idle since last Friday.

Since Carlos is on holidays and finally has been able to put his schoolwork aside, we've set out to do a few things around the house. One of those was to get something to put on the wall behind the stovetop to protect it from humidity etc. We had found something we liked quite a while ago at a Home Depot-like store not too far from us but debated about getting it, as it wasn't quite the height we were looking for. But when we went out to the store on Monday and saw how much we still liked it, we decided to go for it.

Before we drilled. Looks pretty good!

We installed the tempered glass backsplash on Tuesday and are really happy with how it looks!

All done! So much better than having to worry about stuff splattering all over the wall!

We've also gotten the bathroom mirror ready to be installed on the wall and have picked out the outdoor lights for either side of the sliding glass door. I've also done a bit of crafting but have had a few hiccups along the way so unfortunately I have no finished products to show yet. And this afternoon Carlos and I did a bit of marking. Since that's his least favourite thing to do for school, I'm always glad when I can help him out.

Still can't believe it's almost Christmas!