ADD Moms Lifeskills Planner

It’s here! It’s finally here! For years I’ve searched for the perfect planner that would help me keep my life in order. I never found anything that worked as well as I wanted, so I decided to make my own. And now it’s here – my Lifeskills Planner – tailored to the needs of ADD […]

It’s Not One Thing, It’s a Bunch

No, I don’t think anyone in the Brady Bunch ever had ADD, but I just couldn’t resist. 🙂 So if we’re not talking about the Brady Bunch, what are we talking about? My kitchen, of course. This year a lot of DIY stuff has been going on at our house. We are (still) installing hardwood […]

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 […]

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 […]

Relationships and ADHD

Does your spouse, partner, significant other get you? Do they understand you in terms of your ADHD? Or are there problems in the relationship because of it? People without ADHD really have a hard time understanding those of us with ADHD. I guess that goes both ways; how well do we understand them? It can […]

Motivated Moms

ADD Moms can have a hard time getting it all done. We can also have a hard time remembering what it is we need to do. Things like appointments and outside activities get put on the calendar (we hope). But it’s the daily things like housework that sometimes get away from us. There are a […]