Grandparental rights

In the last month & 1/2, my husband & I have tried to see our grandchildren three times. All three weekends, Maia, my ex daughter in law spoke with me, agreed and promised when we got to Bend, we could see our grandchildren. In time, by a text on my cell phone, she cancelled on us.

The first time we were on our way to Bend from Klamath Falls, where we live.  Maia text said they she changed her mind, and the kids were going to Portland with her, so we were unable to see them. The next time we spoke, the weekend we were heading up there was Easter weekend. Maia said she was picking up the kids halfway from Boise, Idaho, where her father lives. Alanis & Hunter wtre there all week in Boise for spring vacation with her Dad. Five minutes before we were heading out the door on Saturday morning, Maia text came through to my cewll phone saying we couldn't see the kids because they weren't due home until late Sunday night. She lied to us, because the kids called their father Shad, our Son, and said they gor home Friday night, just like we were originally told from Maia. The third try was the clincher for us. Maia agreed that we could have the kids the entire weekend, March 30 & 31st, and we thankfully had not left home yet, Maia's text said she changed her mind. That's when I called her and spoke to her personally. She said her boyfriend & her had a big fight about the kids seeing us, and that they were moving into a new place. The text says there is an issue, jp (her livein boyfriend) is really pissed that she is letting the kids go to visit etc. Sunday night we get a call from our Son, he just spoke with his kids and asked them what they did this weekend. Alanis said they sat around & did nothing. Shad asked about them moving and they answered that they are not moving until May. Shad said his kids told him that we (the grandparents) cancelled on them & didn't want to see them. Which was a total lie that their mother told them.

We have been the best of grandparents since the day Alanis & Hunter were born. We have a wonderful relationship with them. We camp, swim, shoot muzzleloaders and spend holidays with them, but that was when their Dad could see them. Shad no longer gets to see them, I'm sure it's because he hasn't a job and hasn't paid child support? But that should have nothing to do with us. I send money, I always have bought clothes before school, and they always receive cards and gifts from us.