Posted by SuperADDMom on April 30, 2010
A while back we started a tea ritual. Before bed, The kids have a light snack ( or lunch as eastcoasters in Canada call it) and a cup of relaxing herbal tea.
So to make it more formal, and special, we took the kids to Value Village and let them pick out their own special tea cup and saucer.
My boy picked a staffordshire, green, stoneware English tea cup.
we paid $2.50 for it. there were others there as well, but we didn’t want the whole set. in hind sight, maybe we should have bought a back up.(or two)
Well, he’s had the cup for well over 6 months I guess, and he just LOVES his tea cup.
He was delighted when he recognized his tea cu on the dresser of Anne’s bedroom, as set decoration, in a scene of Anne Of green Gables a few months ago when we watched it.
Well, he’s not suppoed to leave the table with his cup, he tends to be a bit clumsy on bad days when he’s over tired from a lot of physical exercise.
Yesterday was one of those days, and he left the table with his cup in hand to finish the last drop before bed.
He was watching daddy do something on the Wii and a sound drew his attention….
and Crash….he dropped his cup. it slipped out of his hand by accident because his coordination was off from a busy evening of running and playing and riding his bike.
He fell to the floor in a pile of tears and I had to sit on the floor and scoop him up and rock him and console him, and calm him down, because he was so sad.
He begged me to “poxy” it back together, but I told him he could never drink from it again… after some cuddles and more bouts of tears, he resolved on his own that he would keep it forever as a decoration. Daddy suggested planting a small flower in the cup or cactus plant perhaps…we have not decided.
But now I am searching for and EXACT copy of this cup, because he says he’ll never forget his cup, and he NEEDS his cup back, adn he learnt his lesson and will NEVER leave the table again!
He is so in love with his cup that he told me that if we cannot get this EXACT cup. the only thing that will be acceptable, it to get a white cup, and draw the SAME design back on the new cup.
Tomorrow we’re probably gonna g tea cup hunting….ohh the things we do for our kids
Posted by SuperADDMom on April 29, 2010
ohhhh my… i just witnessed in myself a near meltdown from sensory overload.
This naming it to claim it stuff is draining.
Now that we’ve made the correlation of the Aspergers traits I have, I’ve been working on becoming more aware of when i’m having what I call “An Aspie Moment”
Sensory overload is a thing.. too much noise, to much light, to many colors. I am a very visual person, I see things very vivid and i notice EVERYTHING…unless I’m really hyper focused on something, I see and take in everything around me.
In the last few weeks, it has been interesting basically evaluating myself to see what is bothersome, when do things get too overwhelming, and how I deal with them, so I can deal with them better.
Being tired. Being in pain…they make it harder for me to filter, and process everything I take in. It then makes my ADHD traits worse, and I’m essentially a bumblling idiot who can’t remember what you call that thing you put things in to stay cold in the kitchen.
When I get that way, I get flustered, anxious. I have a hard time finding words to speak and I go inward. I get clumsy and trip over my own feet. I make mistakes, I get scatterbrained more. My depth perception is off, i break glasses, burn dinner, etc..the list goes on and on.
I recognize that in the past…I’ve dealt with these things, and have been avoiding actual panic attacks, or temper tantrums I guess by becoming actually moody, bitchy, cranky, sometimes even reach a boiling over point to near, if not total rage.
When I’m moody, bitchy, cranky, no one wants to be around me, and it was I guess a backward, sub conscious thing that allowed me some alone time. It gave me the time I needed to recuperate and stop the panic inside, calm down, and find a way to regroup and move on, and handle the sensory overload better.
So, with this awareness, i’ve been trying not to be cranky and be a bitch when I notice these overwhelming feelings coning on, and I’ve been trying to find a way to cope better that is healthier for the relationships with the other people in my life.
Diverting the kids to go somewhere else away from me, using my ear phones, but still being physically present etc.
But today was too much…..I’ve been this overloaded before…many times… but by now I’d always have been bitchy, cranky at people’s needs, yelled at the kids for the smallest things like how they are chewing their cookie near me ( the sound is SOOO ANNOYING and LOUD i can hardly stand it). I’d been cranky with hubby, and then this would cause strife for a while. There would be bad feelings between everyone, and then I’d need to recoup, AND get over the bad feelings, and apologize for my behaviour.
Today I fought the urge to be bitchy…It is very hard to fight the tendancy to revert to a coping stragedy I’ve used for 35 years. I managed to not flip out, but it was replaced by the urge to physically run away…I’ usually run away to the computer, and that in an of itself causes issues, because I retreat to the computer as a way to shut out the stuff that is overloading me, and then I get less done, and hubby gets mad at me for “being addicted” to the computer.
I’ve been trying not to run to the computer for a mental escape as much lately, and have been using a timer to force myself to do things that need to be done, for a certain period of time, before I go take a break.
So I didn’t run to the computer….but I got a feeling of being out of control and stuck in a situation I could not get out of, and I started to have a panic attack. Of course I put myself in the situation with my limits I’m trying to pose on myself in small ways.
But I could not run away from what I was doing to retreat to the computer, or even run away outside, because I was cooking food for people, baking cookies, and listening to hubby talk about stuff he wanted to tell me.
I had a loud self talk in my head saying. “pay attention, pay attention, listen….don’t panic, just finish the cookies and then you can leave. hang on ok!? Don’t get mad at everyone.”
At some point, I had three people trying to tell me something all at once over each other, and I could feel the need to get mad and yell “go away from me now, you’re driving me nuts!” I answered in a snappy tone and had to take a breathe and appologize right away to not let the responses to my snapping, roll over into the same old song and dance we always end up doing when I get to feeling this way.
I don’t know how I got through finishing the things I was doing in the kitchen, but the second I was done, I HAD to go away.
I had a tight chest, heavy breathing, and a headache behind my eyes coming on from the stress, because I wasn’t reverting to just coping by getting mad.
I’m upstairs now, in the office where I usually gazelle. it’s quiet, it’s good.I txt messaged hubby to tell him where i was and why.
I started writing this to try and get it out as it is pouring out of my brain, and I’m trying to relax.
I’m still buzzing in my brain and my body feels like how it feels when you drink too much caffine in a short amount of time…jittery and jumpy. But as that slowly starts to die off, and the adrenaline from my little Aspie moment is spent, I can feel how spent of energy I am…
My brain is fried right now, and I feel like I just need to sleep for a little while. I feel guilty about that, and I’m not sure anyone here would let me sleep for a little while to get some equilibrium back.
I hate this feeling.. these are the times, when I would get mad and bitchy at everyone and say “maybe I just need to live alone on a mountain in a yurt with no one around me, cause I can’t take this crap anymore”
sigh…..
A blog of a woman with aspergers has been really insightful in allowing me to go, hey…there’s a name for that!?
It’s a good thing to be making the connections… but also…. it processing, and dealing with stuff, and THAT is tiring to.
I never made the connections before but this is why I have what I call “recoup days” after we’ve had a day out shopping, or driving far to the city etc.
I’m discovering the reasons behind elements of who I am, I never really gave a second thought to.
if you’re interested in reading it…
http://www.aspieteacher.com/2009/07/be-an-aspie/
thanks for letting me spill that
Posted by SuperADDMom on
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaakkkkkkkk
I’m going to lose my shit! Seriously… the noise is nuts! POLLUTION to my brain.
I’m having a bad auditory day….every noise is grating on my nerves, and is amplified and making me jumpy.
I’ve been up since 8 am, with 4 hours of poor sleep due to pain. I go up today and took the boy to his dash and splash program which I have to paricipate in too. So I’ve trampolined, and swam today and coached the boy in his classes.
He loves the water, but is freaky about water on his face and ears, and that was today’s class…WOOHOO.
So he practically drowned me in the pool clinging to me, and near ripping off my bathing suit.
Anyway….I’ve somehow hurt my right rotator cuff and am in pain It feels like someone slammed my shoulder joint area with a sledge hammer. it feels bruised…i’ve never felt this kind of thing before. Anyway, physical pain always lowers my ability to filter things, and makes me more scatterbrained, and I’m a low hormone level in my monthly cycle anyway, so I am just less able to cope right now with too much sensory input. Even lights are too bright today, and the shades are drawn, and the lights are off.
I ran errands, drove home ( which always takes extra concentration effort when I’m having “bad brain” day.) and I’m exhausted mentally.
These are the current noises going on around me at seemingly IMAX theater surround sound levels:
Hubby playing a first person shooter game on the wii in the living room in surround sound sterio.
The kids arguing in the kitchen over a train set we borrowed from the toy lending library, the CAPD boy has the tendancy to talk too loud, and especially when he’s frustrated, and due to his sensory issues and exercising for 2 hours this morning, he is cranky and tired from working his gross muscles and practising his balance, and getting lots od vestibular stimulation.
the bread machine churning dough for pizza later. The Aspie girl is dressed up to be pretty today and wearing high heeled shoes she loves and they are clicking on the floor like riverdance.
Hubby yelling at the kids to not step in the wayof his game.
The dog barking in the bag porch.
And the timer beeping to warn that the cookies can come out of the oven.
I am gonna seriously freak out! I’m physically tired, I need a nap to rejuvinate my brain power to cope with this stuff, but at 2 pm, there are too many things going on and too many things I’m needed for.
It is moments like this that I think my father’s ability to turn off his hearing with his cochlear implant must be a great blessing.
Where can I sign me up for one of those..like right now….PLEASE!?
Anyone have an auger? Can I borrow it? Left ear first please.
Posted by SuperADDMom on April 28, 2010
We live in a very rural area, and about 12 klm from town of about 5000. there they have a fitness and aqua center, and this week I got the kids signed up for programs there.
We have a great community, that helps low income families like ours pay for such programs so they can attend. Honestly the gas in and of itself twice a week makes the budget tight for the next 8 weeks, but the program is covered, and the kids benefit from it tremendously in many ways.
Socially, physically, and even mentally and therapeutically for their sensory integration issues.
So for their age groups I have them in a gym and swim program, the girl had an hour of swimming ( informal swimming and water games, and some guidance, not lessons, but coaching just the same) and then an hour in the gym for a rules/lead game and some tumble and roll, trampoline gymnastics stuff.
She will be going every Wednesday evening, and then the boy will be in a similar set up on Thursday mornings for the next 8 weeks, but I need to attend with him and coach him in the pool, formal level red cross swimming lesson, with one leader/coach guiding us teaching our kid.
Anyway. her first night was tonight, and got the low down on all the boys who cheated at the games they played in the gym…ever the rules police she is 
Aspie kids are stickler for rules, and don’t adjust well to change. She has the added issue of being ADHD as well, and gets easily side tracked, so because of these things, she was terribly worried about going, that no one would like her, that she can’t swim very good, and she sucks at sports like soccer.
When we got there we discovered that due to pool availability, the swim portion of the 2 hour program is first. Which I think is really rather shitty, cause she’ll have to shower off the pool chemicals from her body to go to gym, and do all that in a timely fashion, AND then she’ll sweat and stink in the gym, and come home and need to shower again!
With a child who has an issues with time management, getting side tracked, and anxiety about changing in front of other girls, this could really put a major crimp in her liking this program at all. She was VERY upset…it’s different from how the program ran last year, so she was all bent out of shape over that at first….and she NEVER showers for less than 15 minutes, and THEN takes 15 minutes to dry and change….so I can’t just drop her off for a 2 hour free time in town, and then pick her up… I need to be there in the middle of the 2 hours, for the switch over, to ensure she stays on track. It is a good lesson for her to work at, and would be helpful, but still, not what we understood, not what we planned, and i can’t just take 2 hours to do errands, or maybe even enjoy a break at the library, or whatever, without needing to be back there an hour into it, and then hang around for 45 minutes left of the program.
But even with that…she had a good first night, and she was happy to be the first person dressed and ready for gym.
I’m glad she enjoyed it and came home with a smile on her face, and excited about it.
I’m really pleased with her instructor/leader. She eased into it well, though she was terrified and almost in tears at the beginning.
I hope that he is a sign of changes happening with a new generation of community leaders/teachers/coaches etc we are about to see more in upcoming years as my children and children with special needs are being accepted.
He’s energetic and young ( about 18/19) and great with the kids, and was receptive to my suggestions to make my girls’s experience better, to help lower her anxiety in social situations, and how to give her warnings for changing events/transitions easier. He didn’t know much about it, but he generally understood Aspergers and ADHD and was positive about her maybe needing a little extra coaching to stay on track.
I watched him interact with the kids in the pool, and with the kids in the gym, and leading the games, and He’s a positive verbal encourager, but not unfairly, and he high fives all the kids and makes them feel positive about their contributions….you can tell he is fresh in the game and loves his job.
I want more of this in my children’s future. He was a pleasure to watch coach the kids.
Tomorrow at 9:45, I’ll be back there with a great female instructor we know from my sons program last year, and last year he was very shy due to his CAPD…but he ASKED to go back this year, and is very excited about tomorrow. She’s in her mid 20′s, and she is just as great.
I rant a lot sometimes, so it is nice when I have the opportunity to share nice things
Posted by SuperADDMom on
ohhh Give me a break !! I’m pissed!!
OK if I said to you …”I surveyed over 14,000 Ontarians and found that heartburn was most common in people who used tums and rolaids almost everyday (heavy users) and lowest in those who did not use tums/rolaids at all (abstainers).” would you then conclude that Chronic antacid use LEADS TO HEARTBURN!!!?
ORRRR. would you think the logical thing is that people who have chronic heartburn, use antacids on a regular basis.
Annd that it would stand to reason that people who don’t have issues with heartburn, would not find relief in antacids, and therefore not use them all the time.
Ya.. well apparently they’ll let anyone be a scientist, or publish any bullshit.
I am a traditional herbalist. I have studied herbs as medicine all my life, have taken distance education herbology, and practice herbal healing with friends and family and neighbors.
Let me be clear , that I am NOT a cannabis user…but I advocate it’s use in controlled, healthy, non addictive non smoking ways to help peoples health.
I educate. Sure I tried it when I was younger, but it was always something I could take or leave, because with ADHD, it doesn’t “make me high” it makes me “normal”. It lowers my anxiety, and helps me feel better, but I chose presciption drugs for my own health issues, because of the legality of it’s use, the ability to obtain it, and the fact that I am the primary driver in my home, and cannot use cannabis daily to help get relief from my scatterbrain issues, my social anxieties, and mood swings if I need to be sober to drive.
Cannabis has a lot of stigma to get past, and things like this study I’m going to copy below this rant really piss me off.
Fuck You and your twisted numbers in your anti drug campaign bullshit Joyce Cheung and colleagues. Your recent findings published in the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse perpetuate lies and hold back progress in Cannabis being recognized as a natural,beneficial herbal medication for anxiety and mood disorders ( and much much more)
Did you ever think that people who HAVE MOOD DISORDERS and Anxiety issues, use Cannabis on a regular basis, because it helps alter their brain chemistry to a helpful level, that allows them to cope.
Get your heads out of your asses.
FFS.
SOURCE:http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/April2010/20/c3858.html
Study shows new link between cannabis use and mental health
TORONTO, April 20 /CNW/ – Research has shown possible links between cannabis use and the onset of Schizophrenia, but a new study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows that people who use cannabis may also be at risk for developing anxiety and mood disorders.
The study, published by Joyce Cheung and colleagues in the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, surveyed over 14,000 Ontarians and found that anxiety and mood disorders were most common in people who used cannabis almost everyday (heavy users) and lowest in those who did not use cannabis at all (abstainers).
Eighteen percent of heavy users reported the presence of anxiety and mood disorders, which is about double the Canadian average. Respondents who reported occasional use between once a month to up to a few times a week did not show elevated rates of mental health problems. But surprisingly, infrequent users, (those who used cannabis less than once a month), also reported elevated rates of anxiety and mood disorders – an increase of 43% compared to abstainers.
“This result was something we didn’t expect to see,” said Dr. Robert Mann, CAMH Senior Scientist and investigator on the study. “We thought that the data would likely show a positive correlation between use and psychiatric disorders – with rates of anxiety and mood disorder increasing with use – but these results show that the frequency of use is not necessarily the only factor affecting the rates of these disorders.”
The reason for this result may lie in a person’s genes. “We know that with a mental illness such as schizophrenia, there is no threshold for use. If a person is genetically predisposed to developing schizophrenia, any level of cannabis use can hasten the onset – this may be the same case here,” added, Dr. Mann.
Those who treat people seeking to stop or reduce their cannabis use should also be aware of the increased likelihood that their clients may be experiencing psychiatric disorders as well.
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada’s largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital, as well as one of the world’s leading research centres in the area of addiction and mental health. CAMH combines clinical care, research, education, policy development and health promotion to help transform the lives of people affected by mental health and addiction issues.
CAMH is fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, and is a Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization Collaborating Centre.
Posted by SuperADDMom on April 27, 2010
For a long time, I’ve had been who other people expect or want me to be. I have been really good at putting away parts of my personality to “fit in” with the particular crowd I would be with. Or trying to be the type of person society and people have told me I should be. Since I made the aspergers connection, I feel less guilty for the ways I am, and am trying to accept myself more.
There are aspects of myslef I cannot change, and I’m done trying to squash them to be more likeable to certain people. If I have to “perform” to be like by them, I don’t want them in my life.
In the last little while, I have realized who the people I am most myself with, accept me for who I am… all of who I am, and I like that. So, I’m trying to just be me, no matter what, no matter where.
I don’t need to figure out which filter to put on to deal with certain people, and I don’t feel worried about what I’m saying or how it is taken.
I’m tired of filtering myself. I’m tired of people wanting to be friends, and then getting close enough to realize there are aspects of my personality they don’t like, or jive well with theirs. IT hurts me to get invested in a friendship to have it end because people can’t handle how “Me” I am.
for over a year, I had two twitter accounts… one for the more “serious mommy/clean me” stuff and one for the more “dirty jokes, sexy woman” me twitter. And I kept them seperate.
But, recently I decided to not do that anymore, and just be all out me. If my mother can handle all sides of me, and I can be totally me in front of her, then anyone who can’t handle all sides of me, probably is not someone I want in my life anyway.
on twitter “SuperADDmom” is all of me, because all of those parts of me, are what make up the whole me.
I have too much going on in life that is stressfull to worry about what people think of me…so here I am…the “real” me…all of me…
I don’t need to, nor want to hide the dirty joke, sexy side of myself to be taken seriously as a person who is smart, knowledgeable and an advocate for ADHD and Autism etc.
- So, this is the whole package…
- You either like me or you don’t. If you are not contributing to my life in a positive way you are not in my life. Sorry I just don’t have the time for playing games. I’m busy and my time is valuable to the people in my life who do want me in it.
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- I hate liars, and back stabbers. If you are one, you won’t be in my life for long.
- I’m a country gal. I was born to a family who cussed like sailors, so I do curse.Probably more than I should, but I’m human.I won’t apologize.
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- I’m from the East Coast of Canada, so though I chose not to drink alcohol very much, i used to and I could drink you under the table. I’m a happy drunk, and I chose not to drink much, because I like it a lot, and could probably like it too much, since I come from a family of addicts. I refuse to let alcohol be how I cope with a stressfull life.
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- I often have my mind in the gutter & I tell dirty jokes. I’m not bragging, it’s just a fact. I’m a spiritual person, and a deep thinker, and I strive to better myself all the time, but being all deep, all of the time, and waxing philosophical constantly wears out my brain, and makes me heart heavy. I consider myself to be a Buddhist, but I’m not nearly finished my reincarnations back to this world to finish learning.
I refuse to be something I’m not for anyone and I don’t pretend to like people I don’t. If you are in my life, I consider you a friend. I am straight forward, I don’t like head games, or having to guess where we stand with each other.
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- I consider silence to be assent, so if you are not standing up for what you feel is right, you are strengthening that which is wrong.
I’m a very strong believer of the truth & the eightfold path… therefore I am opinionated, and often find myself fighting for truth and justice. So, I can be crass, I tell it like it is and I refuse to be silenced. Sometimes people hate me for this…that’s ok by me. I’d rather you opening hate me, than secretly hate me while pretending to like me.
I’m more redneck then you’d probably like me to be. I can operate a chainsaw, drive a standard, back up a trailer, lift my own body weight, and am not afriad to get my hands dirty. I’m not big on high society social graces. I’m a BBQ gal, not a “let’s do brunch” kind of gal.
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- I don’t wear much makeup often, but I like to feel pretty and sexy. I have breasts and I like them, so I flaunt them. They’ve fed hungry children, and keep my husband occupied, so they deserve the recognition. I don’t care if that makes you uncomfortable, or upsets femininists.
I’m NOT a feminist, I’m a “peopleist” and I’m a “Stand by Your Man” kind of Woman.
I’m not Christian, and I don’t need you to save me. I won’t hold your faith against you, if you don’t shove it down my throat, and I won’t try to sell you on mine.
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- I’m the most “unbuddhist” Buddhist you’ll ever meet.
I am the most happy, relaxed, stress out person you’ll ever meet. I cope by having moods and expressing them here and on my twitter. I complain when I need to vent, and count my blessings when I have them. It helps keep a balance that allows me to be functional and successful in my life. It is what keeps me smiling.
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- I’m the most caring, loyal friend you could ever have, but if you double cross me we’re done. I don’t hold grudges forever, because with ADHD after some time, I’ll forget the details of why I no longer trust you…but I’ll trust my guts and still not trust you. I do give second chances, but it takes a lot to prove to me that you have changed…most people never get that far, because they don’t care enough to find out that I do forgive, and most people who did try to prove it to me, in one way or another have always let me down.
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- I suck at small talk, it makes me uncomfortable, so I yammer…I have a monotone voice when I talk, and I suck at eye contact unless I feel safe with you. I have a hearing disability so social situations make me uncomfortable because I’m afraid I’ll embarrass myself . I’m not standoffish, it’s just how seem. But no matter how much I adore you, I am not a huggy/kissy person, but I’m the most verbally affectionate person there could be if I adore you. MY compliments are always genuine, because it never occurs to me to kiss anyones ass.
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- I’m a square peg in a round hole society.
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1 hour of filing bags makes 16 bags of wood
those 16 bags emptied in the wood crib at home made about 1/2 a cord of wood.
We’ll need about 4 to 5 cords of wood to be safe for next winter.
Hauling, driving filling the bags and piling it took about 3 hours.
so…30 hours of wood collecting will get me the wood we need to heat the house for free next winter.
When you heat with wood, just cause the nice weather is out, doesn’t mean i can let the ball drop.. I did that last year and that’s why I was collecting wood with a freezing cold wet ass on a pile of wood in the snow in minus 23 degree Celsius weather in January.
Posted by SuperADDMom on April 26, 2010
ugggg
a half hour of actual time on the gazelle tonight.
i’m glad the thing pauses when it is not moving. I had to stop so many times to rest the aches in my feet. It has taken me about 45 minutes to go a half hour tonight.
My feet are sore today, i’ve drug a lot of heavy stuff around this weekend, and it was a busy week. having a lot of things i need to be “on” for wears my mental stamina out with my neurodiversities, so i’m exhausted.
i hauled a play house made of skids home for the kids this weekend, and have been trying to clean the yard and paint outside etc.
I didn’t get in 10 klm for the week. i only got in 9.3. i wish i could have made it the whole, way, it seems like such a small amount to go for left, but i totally pushed myself to even go much farther past the first 10 minutes tonight.
I’m glad i did it though, i need to stay in the habit. I’ve been missing it all week, and wishing I was not so busy or tired from everything else i was dong. The emotional habit is there… so i have to make sure i keep up with the physical habit of doing it.
Thankyou to everyone on twitter and facebook who cheers me on. sometimes it really helps to know people are watching…cause sometimes I’d just talk myself out of it if no one was paying attention.
#tired #sore #gazelle
Posted by SuperADDMom on April 25, 2010
Because being poor and not creative would really be hell!
a lot of the stuff we have, are things we recycle, build fix.
This week I rescued an old dresser that is all busted up and was set to burn in a garbage pile at the dump. I saved it, and am currently re purposing it, into a garden arrangement. I’m painting it white, adding chicken wire to the top dressers on the front, filling it with dirt and going to grow flowers and herb out of it.
It’s going in my tea garden on the front of the house.
Also, today I salvaged a skid/pallet “shed” from the local hardware store. i think it had come with garden center supplies on it, and the local hotdog wagon vendor guy had put a roof on it to hold his supplies, and then dumped it off in the “free wood” pile near the store.
The kids saw it yesterday and mentioned it would make a cool clubhouse.
So today when I went into town, I took the trailer and grabbed it. it was HEAVY, and awkward to move around but I did it. it is now in the back yard waiting for some reinforcements, paint, and fixing up with other scrap wood, singles and windows etc, I have salvaged, or will in the near future.
Rural life was meant for me…this is ME, I am in my element when I’m doing this stuff
I’m pretty sure “rustic” as a decor, was invented by people with ADHD
I can’t wait to post pictures of the dresser, and show the ongoing progress of the clubhouse
Posted by SuperADDMom on April 23, 2010
It’s Family Fun Night and we usually do something all together.
The cubs have been fighting and arguing all day. I’m tired, and the boy wanted to watch a movie. So, tonight family fun night is me and bupba snuggling in the bedroom watching cloudy with a chance of meatballs, and the girl and daddy playing hockey on the Wii in the living room
everyone is happy, each gets special one on one time, and they arn’t fighting
