My DH works shift work....one week 7am-3pm, then day off, then 3pm-11pm and two days off, then 11pm-7am and two days off, and then it starts all over again, wich include working weekends. The normal weekends (fri & sat or sat & sun) come around every four months, then he only has 6 weekends where he has off, then it starts all over again working weekends...He has had the same job for five years and the BM knows what his shift work is all about.....
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When he has the weekends off, we alternate them and when he is working the weekends, we have them one weekend a month alternating the 7am-3pm shift or 11pm-7am shift...She is CONSTANTLY whining "I want my weekends"....My DH has the kids 12 days a month and mostly during the week, due to him having off these days...BM "works from home" and can freely leave her house to grocery shop, lunch with friends, do laundry, clean the house, etc...she works a PT job on Sundays where she is paid under the table, so the courts do not know about that little income...she works that job by her own choice.

Me, the other hand work a FT job leaving the house dropping kids off to school and going to work for 8-10 hrs a day..stopping at the grocery store, coming home cooking, homework, carpool, etc and then have to wash, clean, etc on the weekends. With my DH work and kids schedule we have to pencil in time alone together.

And she says "its not fair"....she has 12 days and nights to do as she pleases!! When her kids are here she has no one else to answer to..it is just her and her low life BF (his kids lives in CA..how convenient). We have three other kids at our house and crazy schedules..we do not have time to work around hers..which her schedule does not compare to ours!! I told my DH the other night "I am jealous of her schedule"!!

She is a piece of work!!! She puts all kinds of ideas in the skids heads...like "Daddy does not want to spend time with you on the weekends..he rather be with his wife"...OMG!!