Do You Plan Your Weekly Meals?

My mom (who had ADHD) was never a planner or a list maker. For her, dinner started around 1:00 in the afternoon when she started wondering what was for dinner. Sometimes she had things in the freezer, but with no microwave and no plan, that didn’t help much. Enter the daily trip to the store. […]

Fielding a Curve Ball

Sometimes life throws you a curveball – something pops up from left field (are you loving the baseball references here?) and throws your well planned (or not so well planned) life completely out of whack. I have recently fielded a few curve balls myself, so let me share some tips for handling them. First, your […]

How to Stop Putting Things Off

We ADDers are really good at putting things off. We can procrastinate with the best of them, especially if it means we have to cram everything in at the last minute to meet a deadline. Angela England over at Ang England has written an excellent post about Breaking Free from the Quagmire of Procrastination. She […]

Getting Over Overwhelm

Today I was having trouble deciding what to write about, so I asked my Facebook friends and they came up with several great ideas. One of them was about feeling overwhelmed by the amount of stuff that you have to do in an ordinary day. Inspired by a website I visited earlier and the owner’s […]

Eat Your Fruits and Veggies!

I don’t have to tell you that fruits and veggies are good for you and that you should eat them. That’s what your mother is for. 🙂 But did you know that some fruits and vegetables are better for you than others? In general, those fruits and vegetables that have more color are better for […]

How Many Times Have You Been Dissed?

Whoa. Did Dr. Emmett Brown just whisk us back to the eighties in his DeLorean? I mean, when is the last time you heard someone say “dissed”? But think about it. Disorder. Distracted. Disinterested. If I could think of a way to turn “ditzy” into a “diss” word I would. You get it right? Well […]