Now it’s hard when you have limited local friends and family members are 5 hours away. I didn’t think that it would be good for Shelby and Ryan to be living in my unpredictable life back when Angie left.

Now I could have gotten a court order to keep her in a nine country range, but I let her go. I did what I thought was best and karma would pay me back.

“Daddy, do you think you’d mind if I could come live with you after my cat dies? I know you are allergic to cats and I don’t want you to get sick,” Shelby told me last week.

I just looked at the phone and a tear fell, “When the time is right you will be here, Shelby.”