Inky... a few hours is involvement in their lives. It may not be much in your eyes but you are there.

It sounds like you are up against a difficult situation but are working your way back in to the kids lives and that is what counts here.

He was wrong to not tell you about these events but please do not give him more ammunition to use against you in the future. He sounds like somebody who would use it happily.

Sorry if you were offended. It was not the intention.

Please remember there are some people in this world who would give anything for a mother who cared about them at all.

Please take care.