Finding our way together

Tyler and I would spend the next two years working opposite hours. He was working residential treatment, treating teenagers who were emotionally and physiologically abused. I worked as a full time Nanny watching a little girl named Cassidy who would become like my own child. Motherhood was something I found harder then anything I had ever done. I was giving my everything to Lucy, my bed, my body, my family and every minute of every day. I left nothing for myself. I leaned hard on Tyler for all my needs. After leaving a twelve hour shift with emotional teenagers, to come home to a lonely new Mom and her crying baby made us all vulnerable and weak. It would prove to be one of the most difficult times in our lives to date. Through sheer blind love for each other and our daughter we made our way to the end of a tunnel. We emerged not as boyfriend and girlfriend but as a hard working Father and Mother and more like a Husband and Wife. On Mothers day 2005, one hand clutching Jacks leash, the other wrapped tightly around Lucy on bended knee they all looked up at me as Tyler asked me to be his wife. We were married under a hand crafted arbor Tyler had built for us.