Yeah, I am the useful relative now. Other than the girls' father, who my grandmother wants nothing to do with (and for good reason) I'm her only adult grandchild living up here. My cousins all live in SC. And other than my parents, she really has no children up here either. My aunt is in SC, my other aunt, who I've never even met and has been estranged for a while, lives in West Virginia, and my uncle went off the rails about a year ago and no one has spoken to him since. Not much you can do when someone doesn't answer your phone calls.
My aunt still has custody for now. The agreement expires, so she'll have to get a new one, but it seems unlikely their mother will be able to get custody back at this point. She's got so many charges pending against her, and we don't think she'll be able to afford a lawyer. The girls do have to come up for summer visitation, so they'll fly up with my grandmother. The good thing is that my aunt can get a gate pass to escort all of them to the gate, and then I can get a gate pass to get them off of the plane. I get them one day and my parents the next. I'll be spending a lot of time at the airport, and barely going anywhere.
My mom called me on Friday after they got there. They went to get the DAS for my brother and sent my dad on a FP run at the same time. The thing is, you need the passes to get the DAS, and my dad had them for getting FPs. Which they did not think about. Before she could even finish telling me, I said, "Yeah, that wasn't going to work!" She told me they needed me there keeping them straight.
And then of course, with my dad and his stance on cell phones, he forgot his in the room and they lost each other for a while. Which, if I had been there, I would have stayed with my dad so that one of us had a phone. Oh, good times.