Newby here . . . (Thread 7)

[JRuss]

FG -- thanks for the tips. It's good to hear that you're making it work so far. We're going to start out doing 2-2-5-5, but I think we will end up at 7/7 pretty quickly given their ages (10 and 13). STBX is moving pretty far out of town, so I think we'll be a bit more scripted on tradeoffs than it sounds like you guys are, but most of our transfers will be school pickups when school's in session; I really won't see STBX too much unless it's summer time. That's ok by me.

As I was driving home from work two nights ago, I was slowly approaching our driveway, and my son was shooting baskets at our hoop I bought for his birthday two years ago, completely lost in his moment. The setting sun was hitting him just right, and it was just about the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. How can it possibly be that someone would voluntarily give up so much time with him and his sister and never do anything (other than two faked trips to a marriage counselor) to try to prevent it? I'll never understand, I know that. I'm not sure why I still want to understand it so badly, though.