Need some advice. First some good news: I bought a house in the city I'm settling in. I will be closing on 7/29, so I will be close to my girls and I'm moving on with my life.
Now, the drama. XW and I have actually been getting along well. However, we've run into an issue.
Backdrop: a few weeks ago XW and the girls moved to the city I'm moving to in late July. I'm living in a city 200 miles way. I had the girls for 10 days right after they came back. I had them last weekend and again this weekend. I'll have them from 6/27-7/7. From 7/7 until 8/11 I'll only have them for two weekends. I told XW that I'd like to have the girls from 8/16-8/25 and then we can get on our regular child support schedule. School starts on 8/21 (a day before my birthday). I want them on my birthday.
She responded that she'd like to have them the first two days of school--her having them for the first day of school was never agreed to in the divorce decree. We went back and forth, and I told her twice more that I'd like to have them 8/16-8/25.
She said maybe we should stick to the child support calendar that we agreed to when the divorce went final--except that she'd like both of them from 8/9-8/11 (for her sister's baby shower) and the first two days of school. The child support calendar has us splitting the girls from 8/9-8-11. 8/9 was our anniversary and I wanted that designated as one of the two times/year that we would split the girls. The child support calendar has me having them from 8/16-8/23. Two days less than I'm asking for, but with me still having them the first two days of school.
I think I will write something like this:
"I'm good with using the child support calendar. I will take the girls from 8/16-8/23. I hope we can be flexible with each other--which is why I'm okay with you having both girls from 8/9-8/11--but I never agreed that you'd get the girls for the first day of school."
