My husband and I share joint physical custody of our two daughters. We each get 3 and a half days. Though you would normally think this would be hard for two young children, they love going back and forth. At first I was reluctant to agree to equal time between us, but I thought that it is barely more time than your standard weekend visitation (the kind that I grew up doing.) It give me time to read and relax and put the house in order. They are both not in school yet and once my 4 year old goes to school (this September) the agreement will have to be rearranged.

I usually drop the girls off Sunday at noon, but this week my husband is going out of town. He lives with his current girlfriend who could take care of the girls during his designated visitation time, but it never made sense to me for him to have the girls if someone else was going to take care of them. So, of course I am spending a little extra time with my kids and little less time online and reading.

I did manage to start Saint Maybe, the new Anne Tyler book I got and I am really enjoying it. I have also been wading my way through Alice Munro's short story "The View from Castle Rock" and I have no idea how I feel about it. I don't know if I am struggling through it or if I just haven't picked the right opportunity to read it where I could really pay attention to it. Or it is possible it is one of those stories that sneaks up on you, that you aren't getting or aren't enjoying but then at the end it suddenly transforms itself into one of your favorite stories.