[quote]His days off are Wednesday and Sunday. His wife would be the one doing the driving. Our daughter has Church on Monday nights and soccer twice a week. He says he works with his wife on Wednesdays but I am not sure. I don't see it being in our daughter best interst to have to get up so much earlier on Monday and Tuesdays when he has her. School starts at 730a am. Besides when she gets out of school Monday at 200 she will have to travel back there do her homework, dinner, shower and bed? what about some down time? He also needs to get a proven track record started. He only exercises half of his current visits. [/quote]
I would stick with the argument that 45 miles is too far away for overnights during the school year. When summer comes, he is more than welcome to have her on Tuesday nights and all day Wednesday, since he is off on that day.
And the 1st, 3rd and 5th week-ends is reasonable. He still gets more week-ends than you, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd week-ends simply isn't fair to you or your child, it would leave you with one week-end a month with the occasional 2 week-ends a month. That would mean that he would get most of the fun time each month. That is not something that I would agree to. The 1st, 3rd, and 5th week-ends would mean that you both get 2 week-ends each month with him occasionally getting 3 week-ends a month.
He created the distance, he is going to have to live with the fact that he is a long-distance parent. He chose that, not you, him.
I don't think that you are going to come across as unreasonable for not wanting overnight visits during the week during the school year, especially with her having to be at school by 7:30 a.m.