Yes - the kids first - when she said she is going in her "business trip" for a week I said "I am not taking the kids - find another solution" - then she bought planes tickets to fly them in L.A. where they would stay with her dysfunctional sister(!!!!) I said I changed my mind and I'll take the kids - and she was mad - because I am "unreliable" and she wasted the money of the plane tickets - I said I wanted to see how far she could go and in how much trouble she was willing to put the kids for her "trip" - it has been reveling I must say. A good mother? I don't think so - not now.