Today went well. Pickup was uneventful outside of W/MIL bragging about some toy W had purchased. I suppose it is okay to be bats**t insane as long as you buy toys.

Took S8, S7, D1 to my office and knocked out some work I had scheduled for the weekend. D1 was walking up and down the hallway squealing as my boys chased each other back and forth past her.

Took them out to eat, then bought D1 some milk and butter cookies for an afternoon snack. She had a blast with that as well. My aunt had bought her a toy tea party thing that had fake teapot/teacups/tea cakes and she and the boys played with that quite a bit as well.

W/MIL picked her up, and I sent some new outfits for D1 with them. They didn't say goodbye really, but that was fine.

After they left I took the boys to see the new Star Trek movie, and we got back from that around 7.

Good day overall... although I still grieve emotionally that I'm at this point having to take the actions I'm taking just to get what I should have had to begin with.

"You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into."