Her father can take the kids to school, can't he?
I'm still lost on the need to pick up the kids or check on them.....
You and I are thinking in terms of how we would react in a similar situation of leaving our children with the grandparents on a school night and going to a dinner or party etc.
It appears that everything this woman does is counter to what a "rational" person would do. She wanted her kids picked up early on the 14th for a reason. I doubt she wanted bubba to take them to school.
Would your parents give your kids to a someone they barely know, and if they did know him, they had to know he was an ex-con. She would have had to call mommy and daddy to have them release the kids to this idiot.
She must have been very desperate to have done that. The only thing I can think of that made her that desperate was the fear of losing the kids to CPS. Nothing else really makes sense..