I agree with Lost. You need to maintain positive contact with your kids. I would stress to your wife that you want to maintain regular scheduled contact with the kids. Can you arrange to get them a cell phone that you could call them on, maybe one of those ones where they are preloaded with minutes. Then you would not need to go through your wife or her parents to speak with them, reducing their appearance of "harassment". Are you in Alaska and their in Arizona? If so, what are your plans for physical contact with them?