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My father had a favorite saying that he would always tell me. “When are you going to straighten up and fly right?” It took me until I was 35 years old to choose between a life of alcohol and drugs or putting my daughter’s feelings first and think about how my daughters felt. I had always been a heavy drinker and a light drug user. My life changed for the worse when my younger brother was murdered. I went from bad to worse I did not know how to deal with my feelings I had so much hate inside of me, I didn’t think about my family’s feelings or even care about their feelings. That’s when I started to drown myself in alcohol and drugs. My mom took my daughters into her home because I was not being a mother at the time. When they moved in with my mother I moved to Amarillo to live with my sister I had to leave town or I would go crazy. Living with my sister was not always peaches and cream beca