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sigh…..where do I even begin with THIS one… ugggg… my poor husband….he is such an amazing man to put up with everything that ADD has a part in for the chaos that is often our life caused by me.

IT’s been a rather interesting week or so, you see…I’m hitting menopause…yes, at 34 years old. I’m on the way out of the childbearing years. I knew it was likely to come earlier then typical for most, because all the women in my family have started their journey to “mature womanhood” around this age.

As such I’ve been having a lot of issues related to hormones…typical ones like heavier periods, longer ones, then shorter ones, hormones and mood fluctuations. Not to mention hitting a sexual peak for being REALLY interested and easily aroused, and being REALLY REALLY scatterbrained!

So today the BIG ADD moment and screw up was I drove to the city for about 20 KLM with the parking brake on.. yes folks… totally in a daze… mostly a sexual one, being all hot and bothered for my hubby sitting beside me smelling so damn hot, while we flirted obscurely without the kids aware of what we were saying from the back seat. I drove with the parking brake on. You see I have a check list I do for a lot of stuff I do, to make sure I do them…habits that I’ve come to incorporating to make sure I don;t make scatterbrained mistakes. IF I get side tracked from them,,, my world starts to unravel and I make a LOT of mistakes. So I forgot to do my checklist hen I got in the car before I put the car in drive.

It was NOT a nice moment when hubby realized it… I had to pull over the van and he got out and walked off the steam coming from his head from the anger at THAT one… the brakes are not good at best right now, and then I go an do that

THAT was a crappy moment

We managed to make it through the rest of our trip relatively unscathed from my lack of ability to concentrate well, and are home now.. kids are fed and in bed. and I’m heading there now too. To take advantage of this new shift in sexual interest I have to THOROUGHLY make it up to hubby for the day we had !

My son is 4 years old, and never stops shocking and amazing me!

In fact he scares me some times with his wit, intelligence, and humor for a little boy his age…I think I have a mini Jim Carrey or Robbin Williams on my hands here. He also amazes me physically with his strength and stamina. I’ve had to go through the house very carefully and make sure that anything that an ADD Spiderman could get into it, was removed or arranged in such a way that it could not be utilized to save the world in his little imaginary playing dress up super hero games.

Though it shocks everyone around us, it come as no suprize when I catch him scaling the 5 foot high chain link fence that encloses our yard, or climbing the cherry tree in the back yard to the highest branch, or walking with confidence along the balace beam, he and his sister made in the back yard of old saw horses and some 2 by 4′s.

But tonight he had me ( and DH “the mundane one”), once again, slack jawed, picking chin up off the floor.

He came to me all upset after leaving the bathroom, with an empty pill bottle from the recycle blue bin…(no worries, meds are kept out of sight and reach and away from him and our DD8)

what had me shocked is that he said ” I can’t open this and it says push and turn!” in a frustrated tone, as he tried with all his might to push and turn the cap from my empty Concerta bottle open.

I WANTED to say “WOW you can read!!!!”  but what I said instead was, ” where does it say push & turn?” He showed me, and then I told him, “well yes your correct. And, you shouldn’t be playing with pill bottles, even if they are empty”  and took it from him and he went off on his way.

Then later after the moment was passed and not related, I said ” so, you can read huh? that’s pretty cool” and he said all disappointed ” ya, I can read, but I can’t write yet”

We talked about his reading and he told me he has read three Clifford books, and his cars books, and 1 fish 2 fish red fish blue!! I told him i was so proud of him for reading and that he should not be shy to let us know that he can. I also told him that writing takes a lot of practice, and he’ll make lots of mistakes, but that it was ok. The other day I pulled out the dry erase marker, and the electronic practice writing desk by Vtech, that his sister used to learn her letters, and told him it was his now.. he was so proud and has been feverishly hyper focused on using it since.

THE KID IS SECRETLY TEACHING HIMSELF TO READ AND WRITE!!!!

I’m amazed! I need to remember to pull out the leap pad system and let him play around with that. he found the spiderman book and cartridge for it the other day. I’ve been meaning to put batteries in it for him, and of course…I keep forgetting

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