Another busy week in the Sealy-O’Donnell household. Adrian was still on holiday this week and has made major progress with house painting and general tidying up around the gardens. He has almost completed the house painting which looks brilliant, and the plan is to put the house on the market from next week once the agents come and take photos. It’s all a bit too real now! We have had some great inside information about a house that will be on the market soon. It’s very similar to the one we lost out on that we loved, so hopefully we can get ours sold and make a good cash offer.

It was a busy work week for me too as we have a delegation from Vietnam who arrived on Saturday afternoon, so it meant lots of planning things for them to do, and people to see while they’re here. They were all very nice so it was worth the hard-work in the end.

We’ve had a great weekend (even with Adrian spending lots of time with a paintbrush in his hand). He had a lovely Saturday afternoon with the boys in Cuba Street while I was working, at their favourite slide and coffee joint, the boys spend hours going up and down the slide while Adrian manages a coffee and attempting to keep them out of the bucket fountain. We had a great Sunday today, I took the boys for a long walk to the shop and back in the brilliant wagon that they loved, and everyone who passed us couldn’t help but smile, especially with the boy’s regal wave and polite “Haahwoow” and “bye, bye”. We went to a 2nd birthday party in the afternoon for the boys friend from Crèche which was great but exhausting! They had great fun and ate lots of cake before we headed over to Uncle Chris and Aunty Sue’s house for a cuppa (and “naanaa’s”) in the afternoon.

The boys are both good although Tom has a terrible cold and was in bed very early this evening after such a busy day he developed a high temperature and exhausted himself. They are getting very grown up and clever these days, their vocabulary is getting better and better we have to be very careful what we say which isn’t always easy like earlier this week when Adrian was bitten by a red ant and a lots of bad words came out very loudly (he reckons it would have killed a lesser man)!

My three favourite men in the world below (note the paint on Adrian's arm!).