The other woman

A couple weeks ago I posted that I was 26 weeks pregnant with our third child and my now ex, left us for someone else. We haven't had any contact since. On Thanksgiving he showed up at 6pm and asked could he take the kids to visit his family for a couple hours. Me trying to be the bigger person, agreed. For the sake of how happy my kids were to be around him. I specifically looked him dead in his eyes and said she was not to be around my children. (I've had interactions with this woman before. She has called my kids all types of foul names and at one point threatened to put my daughter in a cage with her dog. She also lost custody of all 5 of her kids to children's services and decided she didn't want to get them back. It was more convenient to not have them around). Anyway, he swore a million times she was with her sister. So he left with the kids and I sat home and cried my eyes out about the thought of my kids now having to split holidays with two different families. While he was gone he sent me tons of pictures of them and everything looked fine so I didn't think anything else of it. My kids are 3 and 1, both talking but wouldn't be able to explain everything that went on. I just had to trust that he was honoring my wishes as a mother. And I was wrong. His step mom posted different pictures on Facebbok the day after, and this woman is in almost every single picture. It literally made me sick to my stomach. That he could be so cruel, and uncaring. And completely disregard me and my feelings as a mother. Ugh. Sorry I just need to get this off of my chest. I haven't been able to sleep and I've cried until my whole face is swollen over this. Two weeks after we break up his spending the holidays with this woman and our kids, like a family. When I haven't even explained anything about the situation to them yet. So long story short, I told him next time he wants to take them without me present he better have a court order forcing me to do so. And if he can't spend 3 hours with his kids that he hadn't seen in 3 weeks without her being around he was a sad excuse for a father.