Homekeeping with ADHD
I like Martha Stewart’s use of the word homekeeping when it comes to taking care of your house rather than calling it housecleaning. After all, isn’t a warm, comfortable home what we’re all interested in having? And yet those of us with ADHD often struggle to find or make such a simple pleasure. As I […]
Organization & Time Management
It seems that when summer starts coming to a close and the new school year is approaching, everyone gets interested in being more organized and time efficient. That’s especially true if you have kids in school, but even if you don’t, September is sort of like clean slate time. I haven’t been posting here much […]
Simplify: 5 Steps
Those of us who have ADHD lead very complicated lives, or at least it seems that way. Perhaps the reality is that we make things harder for ourselves than we need to. Organization is a big challenge for anyone with ADHD. Part of the reason is that it’s not a skill that we seem to […]
Are You A Family Manager?
Family Manager to me equals mom, so that means that I qualify. A Family Manager is pretty much responsible for running the household. Cleaning, finances, scheduling, meal planning and more. And while I’m not as bad at it as I used to be, there’s always room for improvement. The Family Manager System is a program […]
Keeping Up with Lists When You Have ADHD
Do you keep lists? I do, although I’m not sure where all of them are 🙂 One thing I used to be really good about was writing a grocery list. Every week I would plan our meals, write down what we needed under special headings (Dairy, Meat, Produce, Frozen, etc) and then do my shopping. […]
Organization and Time Management Tips
When I go to the gym, I always watch Food Network while I’m on the treadmill. It helps distract me from what I’m doing. This morning, I was watching Quick Fix Meals with Robin Miller and she said something that really made sense to me. It isn’t as though I hadn’t heard it before, but […]