Yeah, that seems like a big communication fail on the part of the school district.

I'm surprised I didn't get an email or robo call from the principal because I get bunches of them regularly on far less important issues. Then again, I could have checked the calendar which shows today as a school day. I just hate wasting an absence day in case we need it later. Oh well.

I had a moment of worry this mornig when I found out that my friend's kids are back in school today.

Ive never seen a holiday where so many people don't know if it is one or not.

A lot of school districts that would normally treat this as a holiday are not because they need to make up snow days from the Halloween storm.

despite the reasonableness of Vortex's argument, I'm in the camp of:

Ive never seen a holiday where so many people don't know if it is one or not

Isn't today a federal holiday to boot?

I'm even more embarrassed to say that 2 of my employees showed up this morning at the office for work. After emailing me about the apparent holiday they just did a few things they had in progress and then went home. I was out sick all last week so we didn't discuss it specifically, but we were closed the Monday after Christmas. So boss fail too.

We had people calling the store today to find out if it was open.

We were open yesterday and Thanksgiving. The only day we aren't open is Christmas.

I forgot the banks weren't open and now my rent check is late, I'm going to take it to my landlady, apologise, and ask her to wait until tomorrow afternoon to deposit it.

My New Year's Resolution for the year is to - try new things and push my self.

Which I think is flexible enough to actually be doable. One of the things I did was sign up for an online Drawing 101 course. I got pencils and sketch pads at work and I'm going to try drawing.

Also I need some - ~ma towards my brother. My X SIL is being completely unreasonable over custody arrangements again. They were splitting the month, now everyone is moving closer so she was going to have my nephew during the week and my brother on the weekends. Now my XSIL wants my brother to accept every other weekend.

My brother put his foot down and said they'd go to a mediator. I hope that goes well. My XSIL never bonded with my nephew, he doesn't want to go to see her, he never says he misses her and she's never apart of his pretend play.

However, he did have his first day of pre school today. He calls it "preschool college" because my brother is going back to college next week.

It is the federal holiday. Since both my. Kids are home, it's definitely not a work day, although I wouldn't call it a holiday.

They were splitting the month, now everyone is moving closer so she was going to have my nephew during the week and my brother on the weekends. Now my XSIL wants my brother to accept every other weekend.

They don't have a custody arrangement finalized do they?

My brother put his foot down and said they'd go to a mediator. I hope that goes well.

It's worth a try but that's unlikely. She would have to want to reach a compromise and she doesn't have to.

My XSIL never bonded with my nephew, he doesn't want to go to see her, he never says he misses her and she's never apart of his pretend play.

You don't really know what her relationship with your nephew is like. You're very much a partisan viewer on this.

Which I don't say in admonitory fashion, but just to say that dealing with custody issues is fraught enough without the extended family digging in their heels and feeling monumentally aggrieved.

Your brother will never get 50/50 custody in a contentious court battle. Judges never do 50/50 unless both parents want it.

That schedule seems really odd with weekdays / weekends. People rarely do that. I highly recommend the 5-2-2-5 schedule for a 50/50 split. That's what we've done with Emmett.

He's with EM every Mon & Tues; he's with me every Weds & Thurs; and he alternates weekends from Fri-Sun between us. So it's 50/50 over a two week period, you have extended stretches of time together (five days in a row), and whole weekends together, but also whole weekends off.

If she's not amenable to that and the court has to decide (which is very expensive, incidentally - like $10,000+ in attorney fees to start) then the least custody he could expect would be every other weekend plus dinner one weeknight.

That's sort of the base level for father's custody in contentious cases.

But hopefully the mediator can help hash something out that would be desirable to her and give him more time with his son. Your brother needs to protect his rights, but he also needs to be smart about containing his anger/resentment and not overplaying his hand. Because he's not going to win if he's too aggressive. But he'll definitely get fucked over if he doesn't fight for his parental rights.

He needs to be calm, resolute and willing to compromise.