Some explaining to do...

Dear Faithful Aubrey Jae Fans,

Aubrey's daddy and mommy have been very bad at keeping you up-to-date on Aubrey's latest, greatest, and funnest moments. They have an excuse, albeit a poor one at that, for their poor performance: Aubrey's mommy has a new job and Aubrey's daddy has a new job as well.

For the past few weeks (err, months - about 3 of them), we've all been adjusting to a new schedule. That schedule goes like this for Aubrey, Mommy, and Daddy, respectively:

Monday (Daycare, Work, Work),
Tuesday (Daycare, Work, Work),
... ,
Friday (Daycare, Work, Work),
Saturday (AUBREY-MOMMY-DADDY DAY!!!),
Sunday (AUBREY-MOMMY-DADDY DAY!!!),
and Monday starts the cycle anew.

It was rough initially. Aubrey took about a two weeks to get used to the idea of daycare, enjoyed it on the 10th day, and then had a great weekend and decided she didn't want to go back to daycare. Ever. Chaos ensued, and to be honest, reigned for a bit. Daddy got busy at work (new job overlapping with responsibilities for the old job) and Mommy was busy at work from day one (previous person left the position 2 months prior, lots of work to do to catch up). This meant grocery shopping, laundry, and other life chores were done from 9 - 10 pm on weeknights, or however long we lasted after Aubrey finally fell asleep after too few hours spent with us. We did our best to pack our weekends with fun, and had great fun at that, but there never seemed to be enough time. Oh, and Aubrey cut her canines and molars during that time as well. The fun expressed itself in many ways!

We are finally settling in to a nice pattern, one in which Aubrey is happy at daycare, mommy and daddy are happy with work and our house life, and we all can enjoy a wee bit better standard of living thanks to the additional income generated by mommy.

As we get better at this 2-career household stuff, we anticipate a few more posts on a monthly basis to satisfy the fans. Daddy owes a big thanks to mommy, who has made many of the recent blog posts. Without mommy, all you fans would be greatly disappointed. Daddy is back now and looking forward to a few (more frequent) posts in the coming weeks.

Thanks for sticking with us and we look forward to sharing Aubrey's adventures with you.

-Aubrey's daddy and mommy