Saw the wife at church today. She arrived late. Not much chat, but civil interactions. Immediately following the service, as we were walking out, she asked if she could "take the boys with me for a little while." This surprised me on two fronts: First, she never mentioned wanting to take them. Second, I don't trust her. So I said, "Well, that's fine, as long as we do whatever you are intending as a family group." She got pissed and said, "Forget it then" and huffed away as I put the boys in the car.
I just can't trust anything she says. I don't understand why she was surprised, either, that I don't want them alone with her again after she took them to her dbag lover's house. Strange.
Nut-good advice on the gifts. And Coach, you're right. I need to make the house something I'm comfortable in. The boys noticed the pics were taken down, but I am ordering new pics that I am going to frame, all of me and the boys together or the boys together. That's the family right now that I'm proud of.