Lisa--I totally followed your post.

Should I be scared??
13 hours! Very excited now. The kids are sensing mine and Jeff's excitement. Having a helluva time getting them settled tonight and they don't even know we leave tomorrow!
Ok, so I have a confession to make. I am not Catholic, so I don't go to confession. But this is surely worthy, so here I go...
The MIL drama. I am taking her tomorrow and she will fly down with us. We are flying Southwest, which as you know has open seating. So, at the exact 24 hour mark, I log on to the computer and print our boarding passes. Just mine and the girls. We are in Boarding Group A. Then I waited a couple of hours and called my MIL and asked her if she wanted me to print hers for her. Which of course she did. So she is in Boarding Group B.
Yes, I totally did it intentionally. Yes, I am sure it was a quite rotten thing to do. But in my defense....
She has been saying all week, "Well I can sit with Cammie and you can sit with Kelly..." NO. I want to sit with both of my girls. We have been planning this. Plus, since the plane sits three across, it works perfectly. We don't have to have some stranger sitting there with us. AND my girls are tiny. So their two tiny bodies plus me makes for a very comfortable flight.
Now, I am not saying that MIL has to sit on the back of the plane or anything. She can be right across the aisle. Or right in front or behind us or whatever. But I'll be damned if she is taking one of them away from me for the flight. I have already caved on a lot and I just didn't want to cave on this. And sure, this was totally a passive aggressive move, but my MIL INVENTED passive-aggressive, so I am usually on the receiving end of these types of moves.
So go ahead and dole out my penance. I am sure it will be steep...