Purses, Organization, and A Life Well Lived

organization an ADD woman

Note: the contest mentioned in this post has ended. As you may know, I am a member of the BlogHer community. BlogHer is a publishing network made up of more talented women writers than I can count. BlogHer members write on a variety of topics that interest women, including organization, family, food, money matters and […]

Visual Cues

Most of us with ADHD are visual learners. We learn better through pictures and graphs than just listening. There are a lot of ways that we can use visual cues to help us remember to do things or to plan our day. Here are a few ideas: I live in a somewhat rural area. It […]

Flylady

I know that a lot of ADD Moms follow Flylady’s system for keeping the house (and more) under control. For those of you who may not know, Flylady helps those living in C.H.A.O.S. (Can’t Have Anyone Over Syndrome) learn to polish their sinks and fly one baby step at a time. Flylady is about keeping […]

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 […]