So...Here's My Story and It's Stuck To Me

Hi and welcome to my blog. I admit I have been wanting to start a blog of my own for a long time. I blog for the baseball league I serve as a director for and also maintain a couple of websites as a volunteer, but I didn't have that blog outlet for myself.

What is a "Displaced Diva"? Well, it is me. I have detoured to Diva-ville along the road called life. Along that route I have picked up a husband...three kids...a couple of cats (well, 4 to be exact with 3 in heaven now)...a disabled father-in-law...an unexpected career path...and a pile of laundry. It has taken me many years and life experiences to finally come to the conclusion that it is OK if you don't happen to like me, because I actually don't give a damn. As a reformed brunette it took more than 12 steps to reach the core of the meaning of my life...and what a trip that has been...it is a wonder I am still here, but here I am.

I was born and raised in the tight-knight community of Orofino, Idaho. Though I don't live there any more, there isn't a day that goes by that I don't wish for some aspect of home--I miss my extended family there every day. Staying true to my Idaho roots, I graduated from the University of Idaho and married a fellow Idaho grad...what can I say, I am sucker for MARINES (Semper Fi, baby!) even though my husband-to-be at that time had really bad hair and was coming off a tour of insanity as a UI rugby player. I was thoroughly impressed though after I saw him play softball with the Sheriff's Office team and the rest continues to be a sorted tale fitting for a cable TV soap opera. I have been married for over a decade now. Beating those odds should have made me some Vegas-style money. It is hard to imagine sometimes that I have been married to Mark for as many years as we have been, but we have it good. I am very proud of my husband and everything he has accomplished for himself. He has been extremely successful with his career and continues to be followed by such success.

I am a mother of 3 wonderful boys. If you would have taken me 20 years ago and showed me snippets of my now-life I would have laughed my ass right off after saying no frigging way would that ever be me. Ask anyone that knew me when...I hated kids and there was no way in hell I was ever going to have ONE let alone THREE. And, the last two are IDENTICAL TWINS, so there was even more of a surprise.

We are a busy, active family that is NEVER home. I don't even list my home telephone anymore as a contact... My kids play a lot of sports and of course when you live at the baseball and football field you get roped into managing the baseball field complex or becoming the team mom. Currently I am an area director for a local national baseball league, which is an excellent league serving over 2000 kids. I have made some of the best friends through kids sports and appreciate people who sincerely volunteer their time and resources to make these things happen. I have also learned there are a lot of sorry-assed psychotic people that put their kids in sports to re-live the lives and experiences they think they never had.

We always have some sort of change or event going on in our household--that's our life. So, thanks for coming along thus far...