nocode, KUDOS to you for preparing a wonderful meal for your kids, interacting with them, and just plain loving them. And I am glad you accepted the invitation to W's and MIL's. You are right, MIL was probably miffed that you were there, but tough toodles.
PS: Someone else joked with me on here that when we put our profiles on match.com in the years to come, we'll say "Must be a LBS" and if the person reading it, doesn't know what it means, then they aren't for us.
