I've been a bit quiet this week, on the blog and in my writing.  I managed to submit a handful of manuscripts to two competitions early last week and so have been feeling less pressure on that front and have been slowly chipping away at a couple of picture book manuscripts. However, it's a universal truth that as one part of your life calms down, another goes haywire.  It's been quite tense in our house over the past few weeks as Mr Six seems to have hit a developmental growth period which somewhat resembles teenage-hood.  I won't go into details, but let's just say it hasn't been pretty and has probably disturbed the neighbours on more than one occasion. As is my style, I go into analysis mode and try to figure out a) the cause and b) the treatment.  I came to realise that Mister Six needed further support with his routines and…