The troubled pop star has finally reunited (albeit briefly) with her sons — nearly two months after she last saw them. Elliot Mintz, a spokesman for Britney Spears’s ex-husband Kevin Federline, said she spent about three hours last weekend with Jayden James and Sean Preston. Mintz wouldn’t say where the reunion took place or who else was there. Britney Spears had not been allowed to see the boys since January 3, when she refused to return the children after a visitation. K-Fed’s attorney said last Friday that the singer’s ex had agreed to give her visitation rights.

Meanwhile a family source revealed, “She [Britney Spears] desperately wants the kids. She cries about it. She hasn’t put the children’s belongings away. Her home has pictures of her kids everywhere. She loves them very much.” Adds the informer, “There’s been a real change in how she is because she has been smothered in love. To suddenly know after all this time that she has support has been incredible for her. She knows that something is wrong with her. She knows that something can’t quite be right because of the sheer fact she’s separated from her kids.”