I am loving these long summer days. Our bedroom is lit by skylights, and we seldom close the blinds, so I wake up when it gets light, which is before five at the moment. And, because it's light, I find it easy to get up and get going - unlike the winter months, where getting up before the sun did felt cruel and unnatural. The long evenings are wonderful too. It gets dark around half-past nine, which means that we can do outdoorsy things after dinner, instead of wanting to snuggle indoors in the warm.

Work is good too, at the moment. I have been making real progress with some of the people that I help. Very, very rewarding to see actual change ...

And all three children are currently cheerful and getting on well with each other and with us.

So why are my stress levels through the roof?

Because our landlord is trying to pressure us to set an early moving date. He owns the next-door house as well as this one, and has just sold it. So he wants the people who're currently renting that house to move in here. But, the woman whose house we're buying hasn't yet found somewhere else to purchase, so we can't commit to a definite moving time. Before our landlord sold this other house, he had said that the date we moved didn't really matter; that we could work together and find a flexible solution. Which is what we told the woman whose house we're buying, and that flexibility is part of the reason that she accepted our offer as opposed to the other offer that she received. But now our landlord is singing a different tune altogether - he wants us out of here by the end of August at the latest. I know that sounds forever away, but given how slowly things happen here, there's a really strong possibility that we won't be able to move at that stage. I have visions of us out on the sidewalk, surrounded by all our worldly goods.

I am really, really, really not enjoying this house-buying process. This has got to be the most stressful move we've ever embarked on, and we've moved fifteen times in our almost-seventeen years of marriage.