Mindsin - pt. 4 (the countdown begins)

[mindsin]

As soon as I came home on Sunday, she was off to see the OM. She said "I'm going to spend the night again and come back home tomorrow night. OK?"

I replied, "No, it's not OK. You spent the day and night with him yesterday and this morning. I was hoping we could spend the rest of Sunday as a family. But I can't stop you from doing what you want."

She replied, "I actually didn't spend much time with [OM] yesterday, and I came back early today and spent the whole day with the kids"

"We could have spent more time this weekend as a family, but you were out, so."

I thought to myself, ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME???

I didn't answer her. But she was lying. I know (through her parents) that she dropped the kids off around noon on Saturday, and picked them up a little before 2:00pm Sunday. I came home at 3:45pm. So unless TWO HOURS worth of time = "all day with the kids", she is blatantly lying. She also lied to her parents, telling them that I will be coming by early in the morning (Sunday) to get the kids. She KNEW I wasn't leaving my resort until noon on Sunday, and it's a four hour drive back from there. She lied to them in order to have a better chance of them to agree to watching the kids.

Later that evening, my FIL came over and wanted to talk to me. He said that had he known she was going to come over in the afternoon (on the following day) to pick up the kids, he would have absolutely refused. As it was, both he and my MIL told her that what she was doing was wrong, and that she should be with the kids. Words like that need to come from people who are NOT me, and I'm thankful that they are standing up to her.

My parents will be coming over today to spend the day with the kids -- giving my in-laws a much-needed day off from watching the kids.

As I'm typing this, she texted me, "How are the kids? Are your parents coming over today? Can you let me know what time they're leaving so I don't bump into them?"

I didn't answer her, and I don't intend to.