More About Me

As one of Mama Kat's prompts this week, she asked us to write or spruce up our ABOUT ME page and since all I had was a tiny little about me paragraph, I took the challenge:

More About Me

Hi. I'm Diane. Welcome to my little blog. "Be still a minute!" is simply an order I've been barking at my two boys a.k.a. the demolition duo since they were in the womb.

Their biological dad, my first husband, Darin, died in an accident on December 26, 2003. Dev was 4 years old and the Dracenator was 5 months old at the time.

Grief sucks and is by far the fiercest monster I've ever gone up against. But, by the grace of God, the love and support of an amazing family and a few precious friends, I kicked its ass and I'm darned proud of it.

I found my now husband, Charlie, on Yahoo (yes, I'm serious!...you can find anything on the internet if you put enough hours into it) in December of 2006 and married him in June of 2008.

In addition to Dev and the Dracenator and Charlie's 2 grown sons and one almost grown daughter, we have two longhaired Dachshunds we adopted from a dachshund rescue in 2009. They were given their Andy Griffith Show character names, Brisco and Charlene Darling, by their foster family, but I mostly call them Big Boy and Li'l Bit or The Darling Wieners.

I have a crazy obsession with wiener dogs that I blame on Dixie Dog, a stubborn little longhaired wiener who was in my life for 14 years before she died in 2009. As God as my witness, I will never be without more than one wiener in my life at a time again.

We love wiener jokes around here. I've been a mom of ALL BOY boys for 11 years now so I finally decided that "if I couldn't beat 'em, I'd join 'em!" Except for the peeing in inappropriate places outside thing. I know my limitations.

I once took an online personality test that told me I have a calming effect on those around me and that I have some mad staying power in relationships. I've also been told I can be hard to get to know at times.

Maybe that's true though I don't mean to be. Once I do get to know you and love you, you are pretty much stuck with me for life.

But don't be afraid, cause I don't mean that in a crazy, psycho stalker way. I promise.

So if you ever get the notion to be still a minute again, come on back and say hi. I love me some comments almost as much as I love wieners. Okay, maybe not that much but still...you get the idea.