Posted by SuperADDMom on March 14, 2009
who needs a $400 wooden swing set from Toys R US!! ( well I wouldn;t turn it down if someone offered it to us, but… when you can't afford it, you do what you have to…)
$1 worth of rope hanging around the workshop, two pieces of two by four for free from wood pallets we acquired, a couple holes drilled in the wood to string the rope through.. tied to the sturdy pre existing structure on the side of the work shop=happy kids.
the kids played outside for about 3 hours today.. they came in with their faces all rosey red 
It's nice to have a back yard, but I'm still a little worried about 4 yo son being out there, as he follows his big sister around the house and our sidewalk is close to the road.. which you would think on a back country road, should not be an issue, but some local idiots lie to drive by the house doing about 40 over the limit 
think I might get some nails for the road and have my tea on the front step and wait for them to turn the corner! we need to get the fence built. in the sections that are not done.
Posted by SuperADDMom on March 11, 2009
So very often with ADD, as I’m sure you know… I think to do something and then so many things between when I thought of it and when I get it done distract me, that it is lucky that I get it done even at all!
here’s a silly event that happened last night that made me laugh.. I’m cutting and pasting from my facebook status wall and comments to show…my poor hubby really does have a good sense of humor about it all thank goodness
and because some people asked me I thought I’d clarify that No, in fact I do not mind that he calls me ADDGirl
My Status:
Ril never remembers to have a cup of tea.. but I just saw Rose Marie is having one, so I’m gonna go make a cup. 11:29pm ( last night)
Comments
Carolyn at 11:11am March 10
ACK! I can’t live without tea, lol. Hope you enjoyed it!
MamaRil
at 1:19pm March 10
Lol took me 5 hours to make it-then forgot it while changing the sheets& it was only luke warm by the time i remembered it again-half the cup is cold on my bedside table this morning-lol-i’ll try again today!
Dear Hubby at 2:29pm March 10
*FACEPALM*
11pm:
Her:Do you want a cup of tea, dear?
Me: Umm, sure. Yeah, I guess, that sounds good.
Her – disappears into kitchen.
4am:
Her: So,do you want Earl Grey or this Peach stuff?
Me: WTF?
MamRil at 2:48pm March 10
LOL ADDgirl strikes again 
Now I’m gonna post this and go to make a cup of tea….lets see how long it takes me to get it today
Posted by SuperADDMom on March 10, 2009
So very often with ADD, I think to do something and then so many things between when I thought of it and when I get it done distract me, that it is lucky that I get it done even at all!
here's a silly event that happaned last night.. I'm cutting and pasting from my facebook status wall and comments to show…my poor hubby really does have a good sense of humor about it all thank goodness
and because some people asked me I thought I'd clarify that No, in fact I do not mind that he calls me ADDGirl
My Status:
Ril never remembers to have a cup of tea.. but I just saw Rose Marie is having one, so I'm gonna go make a cup. 11:29pm
Posted by SuperADDMom on March 9, 2009
We went curling today at our local club for a free intro to curling day… the kids LOVED it…we're thinking of going back the next free day, and possibly seeing if we can scrounge up the funds for a seasons next year… it's $450.00 for a whole seasn, adn that is a LOT of money!!! but we really do love curling, the sport, to watch.. and after today…we really love the idea of trying it for a season as an activity. a good way for the kids to get out their energy.
Posted by SuperADDMom on March 2, 2009
Well it seems….one can hope….maybe things around here will level out a bit now… my cyclical shift in hormones is weaning and therefore making me less scatterbrained and less umm…bitchy again.. according to the people around me anyway..
Unfortunately with hormone fluctuations, it seems n matter how well the Concerta is working for me, I become a complete bumbling idiot at this time. it drives me nuts, because it affects me on so many levels, and I end up going around in circles like I have one foot nailed to the floor. I hate that it means that I spend my time catching up, and falling behind every month… I really need to get a handle on this, as the management of it right now if not effective. Suppressing my menses with a birth control pill, as my family practitioner suggested, has not been effective at ALL thus far.
So today meant the start of catching up on the stuff I always fall behind on during my cyclical trip to ADDworld for a week to 10 days.thankfully, when my mom & dad were passing through on the way home, my mom ( also ADD) whirled through my kitchen and cleaned it up for me, so I’ve been trying to stay on top of what she did, and not let it get too bad, so it has not been too bad.
I’m still feeling a bit sctterbrained, my attention span is pretty low… but I’m trying to push through.
Today I got up, feed the kids ( homemade waffles and icecream) They were totally impressed that mom gave them ice cream for breakfast, but hey.. I figure, it is dairy, and they’ll eat it, and has no more sugar then a box of fruit loops with milk anyway, or pouring over half a bottle of syrup on them… and the coolmom points I gained for that maybe help offset how crabby I’ve been this last 2 weeks. After the icecream breakfast the boy required bathing because he was covered in icecream and he hates being sticky.one of his sensory issues, among others.
I went out and got a yard cart full of wood. made a fire. did a sink full of dishes,folded laundry, put more in washer, & switched some over to dryer.
Then I cut out pictures of clothes from the weekly ads for clothing stores. My daughter who is 8, never puts her clothes away when I give them to her, and her dresser is EMPTY, with her clean clothes all over her room getting mixed up with her dirty stuff. She’s a visual learner,and get overwhelmed easily by stuff she thinks is too complicated or require multi steps to finish, so I asked if some pictures on the drawers would help and she said yes, so we sat together and cut out socks and underwear, sweaters, shirts, pj’s and pants and dresses pictures and stuck them on her dresser with clear packing tape. Quick and dirty, but she was happy, and now she can see what goes where…4yo son wants the same done for him stuff. more cool mom points.
Then I went upstairs with my fixed computer to set it back up. Hubby finally looked at it last night after supper when I asked him to if I brought him everything he needed. I had alreayd had the power supply unscrewed and case open, and the power supply from the kids PC un hooked and ready to go inot mine. As suspected, the power supply had died for some unknown reason, but Dh was not up to looking at it since I had done that over 2 weeks ago. As I cannot edit any of my pictures or write anything without my computer, I was getting antsy, and I think did pretty good at not being pushy ( read crqabby and bossy) at him to look at it. it was not easy for him to do, but he did it, thankfully…( he got paid later in trade )
My computer is upstairs in the office, but no networking wires have been run yet, so I’ll have to put stuff on a thumb drive and bring it down here to the laptop in order to upload anything to the internet, but at least I can work again. I need to get working on the websites.
Anyway, I got the computer hooked back up, and my desk moved a little more over to where I wanted it, unpacked 5 boxes, and made a few phone calls needed to be made about acquiring some real fire wood…yes already CUT & Split! I’m working on getting that in the next week…for the rest of our cold weather, and to help us get a head start on next year’s cold season.
Then I fed hubby a late lunch, which required him reminding me he had not eaten to remember…concerta takes away my appitite, and when I’m not hungry I don’t think of food, so I literally need a schedule or it is not even on my radar. He was complaining he was cold at his computer…our bedroom is on the main floor, and with some well placed fans and a good fire we can usually get it up to a decent 19 to 22 degress C in there, but for some odd reason the front door on the house blew open last night with minus -18 degress outside and was open for about 10 to 15 minutes before we really noticed…( because we were sitting right BY the fire) I kept saying to DH ” why am I feeling such a cold draft all of a sudden?”) The door somehow popped open, and was sitting WIDE open, letting out all the hot air , and our bedroom has been unable to get above 14 degrees C since last night. I was worried about our budgies getting a chill, as they are right near the way through the bedroom to the front door of the house, and the breeze was blowing through there, but they seem fine, thankfully.
I decided to do something about the issue, and hang the fan up high in the doorway as we’d been talking about for a while now.
Well being the ADDer I am…the tools I needed to hang the fan, were missing…still are in fact. this kind of thing, drive hubby NUTS, and in order to not go insane watching me, he had to just walk away and leave me to it, because I had to look for a drill bit and hookeyes etc. I searched and looked around and cannot find the drill bits, but my ADD saved the day, because I went to the workshop to get the ladder, and got sidetracked off searching through other stuff, and found a better option to hanging the fan that would not require the cuphooks and drillbit! I ended up finding a different option, and went on the mission to hang the fan by our bedroom entrance ( no door yet) to let the hotter air that rises go into our room. It took me over 2 hours to find the stuff I needed with that little side jaunt in the workshop, and getting the ladder, putting in the hooks, and getting the fan up there.. but I got it up there…hubby snapped a picture from his phone.
Super ADD Girl to the rescue
the black wire in the picture is a temperature sensor from a thermometer DH’s father bought him for christmas, that has come in quite useful, as it tells us the temp up high where I hung it around the corner, and then also down low on his bedside table where the middle of our room basically is.
I had to go get another yard cart of wood, and make another fire, but it has now been an hour since I hung the fan and the bedroom is now gone from 14 to 17 degrees.. with the fan hanging blowing air that is at about 24 degrees into the room. Hopefully in another hour or so with keeping up with the fire , the bedroom should be back up to a decent temp.
now that I took all this time to write this I need to go make supper.. which I actually planned in advance ( a bit) so hopefully it won’t take too long.
