When my H and I were first married and did not live in the same town as his kids, he would drive and get them every other weekend, then drive them back on Sundays. But he got them from Thursday after school until Sunday nights. So on that Thursday night, he would stay in a hotel with them. They loved it! I remember one year at Easter he was SO upset b/c D, then 7, needed to take 2 boiled eggs to school with her on Friday morning and he didn't have a way to provide that in a hotel. So he worked it so the hotel manager ran to HIS OWN house, boiled 2 eggs and brought them back for her to have. Things have a way of working out when the Daddy is committed to making it work.

M-60 H-51
M-14 years
BD 12/26/16
S 1/1/17

"First the pain, then the rising."
Glennon Doyle Melton