Let’s Bring Back Cleaning Day!
As ADD Moms, one of our biggest challenges and frustrations is keeping the house clean. Ideally, it’s an ongoing job, doing a little each day to keep things running smoothly. For us, what usually happens instead is that at some point we can’t stand it anymore and we do a major full house cleaning. Then […]
9 Simple Solutions for Procrastinators
Note: this article was written by Christine Kane. I thought it was a fitting follow up to yesterday’s post. Irony: As I started to write this article, I thought, “I’ll just go play one Sudoku game first.” I caught myself in the act and marched to my laptop. People who say that procrastination is about […]
The Power of Good Enough
As hard as it may be to believe, many of we ADD Moms are perfectionists. Really. Just because things may not look perfect at your house doesn’t mean you aren’t a perfectionist. It means that perfectionists often put things off until they can do them “perfectly”. The “right” way. No sense doing something if you’re […]
Double D’s: Depression and D3
When you have Attention Deficit Disorder, you are always “gifted” with other things as well. ADHD never travels alone. Anxiety, learning disabilities, and depression are some of ADHD’s more common traveling companions. It’s important that you treat these things in a manner that’s comfortable for you. There is no shame in using medication for mental […]
Tell Me More About ADD!
Every night when I sit down to write a post, I get stuck on what to write about. I always worry that what I’m writing isn’t really what you want to know. So tonight I’m turning things around and letting YOU do the writing. Tell me what you want to know more about when it […]
The Donation Box
Everybody collects excess stuff. As ADDers, we are extra good at that. 🙂 Unfortunately we’re not so good at keeping our stuff under control. Someone I have known for a very long time (and who shall remain nameless) thinks that cleaning involves making neat piles of all of your stuff. No. Piles are piles, neat […]