It's been a while

This is a lazy post meant to only just give our f&f a quick update. This 6 week block I am REALLY busy with two very long classes that have more that their share of homework and projects. It's good but tiring and leaves me with not much initiative to to much else. Owen continues to be the house husband with great success. He's been struggling more than usual with severe symptoms and has developed a need to sleep.... a lot. He's been really interested in studying the 2012 phenomenon and continues to study the writings of Carl Jung.
Dylan has started school and for the first time is able to augment his behavior somewhat to fit into the boundaries set by his teacher. He still struggles but is making great progress. He seems to be making lots of friends and enjoys recess which is something that they didn't have at all in Texas. He likes to read out loud to me and has begun reading monologues for kids. That kid does have a flair for the dramatic!
While we were at the Scottsdale Library, we checked out a Maurice Sendak exhibit which included certain interactive displays that allowed you to dress up like a wild thing, slide down into a big bowl of chicken soup with rice and other fun things. I got a couple of pictures to work out on my phone. Alas, my phone camera is trickier to use than my SLR is so most of the pictures didn't turn out well. Oh well.
School is going well for me. At the beginning of the month I entered a iron chef style competition called titanium pastry chef. My partner and I won second place despite my dessert being totally messed up. We didn't think we would even place and were surprised when we won second. We will be competing again in two weeks and we're hoping that this time we can win first place and make it to the finals in November.
Right now I'm in a class all about artisan breads and viennoserie. It's really cool that we have an instructor who is an expert in the field and has graciously taken it upon himself to teach us how to formulate original artisan bread recipes. It's tricky work but also super fun, I'm enjoying it immensely. I'm also taking a food safety course that is completely involved with memorizing several illnesses by both their common and medical name, their primary and secondary symptoms, what causes it, what the origin of the illness is and how to treat it. It's boring work for me but also totally necessary.
I continue to look for employment that will work with my schedule giving me enough time to both see my family and study. It's a difficult task. I will soon be looking for an externship site and I've been hoping to find something that I can start as a full time employee that can transform into externship and then transfer back to full time employment but with much better pay after my externship has ended. I have a few options right now and I continue to take every opportunity that comes up to network with the local chefs but I'm going to wait until this block is over to really aggressively start to look. Okay, that's all I'm going to say for now. I hope all is doing well and that maybe sometime I'll have enough initiative to share some of the more beautiful nuances of our lives.