Our new & improved CO reads that NCP (DH) gets 2 2-week periods over the summer added to his normal EOWE/EOTuesday parenting time with 60 days advance notice. SD's b-day falls right in the middle of summer. CO also says that her birthday is to be spent with whichever parent has her that day (stupid I know, but I think these rules are made up by judges who have never had children).

SDstb6 was enrolled in soccer this spring by BM (of course, typical of BM, there was no discussion with DH about it - she just e-mailed the schedule). It doesn't really encroach on DH's time all that much. Now that we have her only EOW, there are only a few Sat. morning games to take her to. Also, DH had the discussion with SD that we would do everything we could to get her to her games but sometimes we might have other plans, conflicts, etc. & she understood.

Or more accurately, her demand, that we allow her to take SD to her sister's wedding. Of course, she sent the email to DH's old email address that she has been told not to use b/c it was hacked a few months ago so DH set up a more secure account that is linked to his phone. BM has had no problem using DH's new address for the last 6 months or more, then suddenly he received a hateful email at his NEW address yesterday asking why he hadn't responded to any of her questions, etc. that she had been emailing him.

So the recurring theme at our house is that when SD is told to do something she doesn't want to do, i.e. go to bed, eat her dinner, clean her room, wear weather appropriate clothing, etc., she gets all teary-eyed and whines "I miss my Mommy". Now, I don't have a problem with her missing her Mom, I'm sure she does sometimes & that's o.k. What I do have a problem with is that this ONLY ever comes up when she is unhappy with what she is being asked to do or is being disciplined for not doing something she has been asked to do.