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Still not sold

And still freaked out, more so each day. It's May. We have to leave at the end of June. ARGHGHGH.

I feel extraordinarily stressed by not having sold the house. Usually I take this type of thing in my stride but this is bothering me alot.

Also, I've been spending too much time online the last few days. Need to stop it. I get too bogged down in it too easily, and find I'm not doing anything constructive. Like leaving the house. Or talking to real people.

D's priviledges get returned tomorrow and he's very pleased about that. I think this punishment has worked in that he certainly seems to recognise that doing something wrong like lying to mummy = consequences. He's also been a pleasure to be with this week, rather than having his head stuck in a gameboy or similar (something that escalated absurdly over a 2 week period prior to priviledges being taken away). He's never been all that into those things, but for some reason was completely bogged down in it over the last couple of weeks, playing on waking, lunchtime, tea time, bedtime, etc.... so it's nice to get my son back in that sense too. He's agreed that when his priviledges are returned that he will only play it for a short time after school. My bad for allowing him to play it too often prior I suppose, it just kind of snuck up on me and suddenly I realised he was not interacting on a human level! Once again though, I think it's all tied in to moving. He's not happy about it, he doesn't want to think about it, and he's shutting down rather than deal with it. Trying to make him comfortable with the idea but remembering myself what it was like to move to a strange place at a young age, I know that it's going to be tough for him and nothing that I can say will make it OK. I just need to make sure he's aware that we're here for him, and that we're all in it together, and that there are lots & lots of positives involved in the move.