Sorry Val for barely seeing this now. I'm glad you both were able to make those first steps. It's always awkward, but majority of it will involve what's best for the children. That's how our state is all about anyways...:::huge hugs:::
It sounds like things went very smoothly, Valerie. I used to work in Family Law (I'm a paralegal), and I know how things can escalate. I pray that the rest of the hearings go as well as this first one and that the final divorce hearing will be an amicable one.