Today marks the beginning of a new chapter on our lives..

The last four months I have ceased all outside activities.. Outside meaning anything that doesn’t pertain to Mark lol.. I let those things fall to the side because they would always be here tomorrow, but with Marks stress and job I just wasn’t sure he would be.

We have spent a lot of time working on his divorce.. I’ve watched him worry and fret and give up and nearly give in.. I’ve done my best to encourage, help, stop him from giving up, and ironically the day of the trial I couldn’t push him to fight.. I wanted him to.. But he stood to lose his home and that’s not my decision to make..

It did go to trial July 15 and we have waited every day since for an order from the judge to find out how his life would change..

The days surrounding the trial were a mash of appointments with the lawyer (yup I was there too, involved in this battle up to my eyebrows), visits with friends, welcoming his kids and grandkids into my home, sharing our time together, our worries and burdens and still finding time to get to know one another.. Then divorce trial.. It started at 1.15pm and went on into the night until 10.00pm… I’d never been so glad to hear Marks voice as I was that night.. His daughter (named Sara also just without the H) and I had spent the hours together going insane with worry because the attorney had talked us into not going with him.. So by the time it was over, she and I were near to insane..

His ten o’clock phone call marked the beginning of a six day waiting period that we expected to be over on the morning of the fourth day.. Another little aggravating factor … Day before trial I began coming down with swimmers ear and staph infection in left ear..I’m still recovering a week later after dr visit and er visit..

So today, the order finally posted. We did a three way call with mark so we could tell him the news.. I expected the laughter and the hollaring and even the cheering that you couldn’t hear over.. What took my breath away and made me hurt deep in my heart was the sound of his tears.. I cried too..

So there is paperwork to be finished, a burnt house to be restored, but that’s okay because now he’s a free man and very shortly we will sign the decree to make it very official