Most people know that our grandson William is just about the most important other person in mine and my DH's lives.

William's dad had his 30th birthday 3 weeks ago, and there was an afternoon tea to celebrate. Trouble is DH a gastric upset that day and was vomiting badly, all day. We rang and said we couldn't come, and why... but since that day DS and DIL have kept our DGS from us, completely.

DIL is a stay at home Mom, but when we ask if we could drop in to see our little man, DIL keeps saying sorry, but that she's going out..... every single time! She will not give one day, morning, afternoon, an hour, not one day where there were a few minutes for us to see our GS.

We have not seen our William in 2 months, and we live less than 2 miles from their house.

My DH has a 60th birthday coming up in 2 weeks and I've organised a dinner out to celebrate. They're invited but won't even say if they'll be there or not.

We spent over five thousand dollars in removalist costs, moving from another state to this one, just to be close to our little man... now we're feeling quite distraught. Our lease is up in January, and we're thinking of just moving away again! What's the point of staying here if we're not allowed to see our DGS?

We're going to face DS and see what he says, but even getting a few minutes of his time on the phone or in person is getting hard. He just never seems to be available when we phone.

I think they're both throwing tantrums because we couldn't be there for DS's birthday. Let me tell you that he did drop in and collect his birthday gift though! My DH thinks that DIL is the problem, but I don't know.

Apart from asking them straight out what their problem is, what do you think we should do?