How to Have a (Fake) Immaculate House

Becky from Organizing Made Fun wrote a series of posts about “How to Have a (Fake) Immaculate House” a while back. I bookmarked it and read it all the way through. And then I thought “what great ideas”. And then I did what you always do when you have ADHD. I forgot about it and […]

An Effective To Do List

As ADD Moms, we are great at making to do lists. In fact, most of probably have more than one. You know, there’s the one you wrote down on that scrap piece of paper, and the one that comes with your calendar, and then you found this program online that you were sure was going […]

Hit the Refresh Button

Surely you know that as ADDers we have a short attention span. But that’s not just confined to individual incidents like not wandering off during a conversation or while watching TV. It’s also part of the bigger picture of our life. You know how something works for you until it doesn’t anymore? Like for weeks […]

5 Ways to Put Life on Auto Pilot

Are you like me? Do you feel as though you rarely have the time to breathe, much less get everything done that you need to accomplish? I end most days exhausted and feeling as though I’ve still got a mountain of things left to do. A lot of what we do, though, is the same […]

The Back Up Plan

Those of us with ADHD may often find ourselves in a situation for which we are not prepared. My most famous one was inviting 10 people for Christmas dinner and forgetting to go grocery shopping. Not my finest hour. Most often these situations are of the everyday sort – running out of clean socks, underwear […]

Your Brain on Clutter

AS ADDers we’ve all had the experience of feeling as though our brains were cluttered with too much stuff. But did you know that physical clutter can mess with your brain too? Living or working in a cluttered environment makes everything harder. It’s harder to clean, to get around and to function. And that goes […]