Hey everyone, well, I'm one of y'all now, but I'm also an engineer by discipline and have a spreadsheet addiction, so I created a spreadsheet to optimize my summer custody time (I'm on a 3-week Saturday shift at work, I work every 3rd Saturday and take the respective Wednesday off).

My custody is ESPO, but I managed to find an exact combination of dates to select which gave me north of 50% time and maximized my non-working/non-sleep time with the kids between the day school lets out and the end period for summer custody one week before the first day of school.

If anyone is interested in figuring out your own summer options, hit me up with your first and last day of summer custody, the number of days you get, how many periods you can divide those days between, and the minimum length of said period. For mine, it begins on 5/23/2025 and ends on 8/6/2025 (one week before school resumes), I get 30 days, can split that between two periods, and they have to be at least 7 days in length. I'll see if I can send you a modified version of my spreadsheet, but fair warning--it's an excel spreadhseet (so you'll need excel), and it uses a macro, so you need to enable those (youtube it if you don't know how).