OPP-How Do You Explain This To Your Kid?

A woman's ex husband and father to their son has shown back up after going MIA for 3 years. Now he wants to see his son. How does she explain this to her son?

Mike & Kate-My ex-husband and I have been divorced for over 3 years and not together for 4 years. We have a son together. After we got divorced and our custody agreement was finalized. We were sharing custody every other weekend and meeting at our meeting point. We did that about 3-4 times and then my ex just stopped showing up. I continued to go to our meeting place when I supposed too for a few months per my lawyer and he still continued to not show up.

It's been 3 years since then and his sister and parents contacted me back in May. I have been talking with them and agreed to meet them in August so they could see their grandson. They have came to a couple of his football games. I have been feeling pretty good with getting them back involved in my son's life.

Well, this weekend his dad FINALLY texted me! I was pretty angry obviously. I did text him back and was nice, but firm. All he had were excuses after excuses. I finally told him I wasn't buying his lies and that deep down he knew the truth about what happened. He finally apologized. Now he wanting to talk to our son and eventually see him.

I do want my son, who is 8, to have a relationship with his dad. I know it's important. It has been 4 years since he has had a real relationship with him. He texted me again this morning asking if I had had a chance to think about it. I haven't responded yet, but I know I need to come up with some sort of game plan.
Would it be wrong of my to ask my ex to meet with me face to face so that we can discuss how to co-parent our son? I feel like he needs to be reasonable when it comes to seeing my son since it's been so many years. Like I said, I know he needs a relationship, just wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience and how you went about explaining it to your kid and how you went about getting the other parent back involved??

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