Glad to see you posting that you can't be replaced by anyone else. You are Mom. You will always be Mom. No court can take that away. When the kids are not around a bit, and return, they will be coming home to Mom ... that they will always love deeply.
Congrats on school going well, it will help you prepare for your best life, the one you will control.
The X may need reminding that no one else is rushing forward with an offer that is "best for the kids" and that being patient for a week or two would also be "a great idea". I fear he is just anxious to know how much he can rush out and spend, and he will.
He must think your loving parents got paid for their other home in gold coins that they are about to just give him. That skips things called appraisals, comps, and their own application for a mortgage or refi ... whatever. In fact, you should be looking around for a Plan B house. If he doesn't like their offer, you might want a Plan B house in mind. Let the X find a bottom feeder offer and sell for whatever he can get, less for him!
In a Plan B house that keeps you and the kids in the same area, you might wake up in a home that has never been his, that he has no illusion of rights to enter at will, and so on. Kind of a new start on life with no thanks to him. Just a thought.
I only hope the best for you and the kids, in what ever form that takes.
