Actually, can you ask the girls to own the task of letting their dad know what's going on and remove yourself completely?
D17 would never tell him anything. And I don't think its fair to put that on D12. She'd mention it to him but at a time he couldn't write it down, he'd miss the show and say he didn't know, and her heart would be broken. So for now I'll just forward emails and send texts. As she gets older I'll shift that over to her more, but for now having daddy show up for her is more important to me than the logistics of how he got there.
I'm just whiney today I guess. I was working on my financial disclosure earlier and it's boring and annoying. Picking at the scab.