Wish Life was this simple for me!

I'm starting this blog off with year 50 of my ADD.  Why, because today was a typical day for a person who struggles with Attention Deficit Disorder.  I got up at my usual 6 am made my coffee, let the dogs out and set outside in the cool of the morning to think about how to start my day.  After finishing my coffee, I let the dogs back in and strolled down the hill to let the chickens out of their pen (cluckcluckcickens.wordpress.com) on my way I carried the water hose so I could start watering some trees.  I started back up to the house to get a bag so I could do some general cleaning of the chicken pen, but instead I used that bag to clean around the garden pond.  An hour later I remembered that I had water running on a tree and it needed to be moved.  I strolled back down the hill to move the water but instead I set down on the grass and started talking to the chickens, oh, I think I'll weed eat today while there are still some clouds.  I pulled the weed eater out of the building started up the hill to the house and what, I had forgot to move the hose, back down the hill move the water and now I'll weed eat.  No wait, I think I'll eat my breakfast first.  I broke one of my good plates while fixing my toast, better sweep that up before someone gets their foot cut.  On my way out to the garage to get the broom, I look in and I have the bed partially made, what, when did I start that, I better finish that after I eat my breakfast!  I did manage to sweep up the plate into a pile on the floor and that is where it was 3 hours later when I came back in to get a drink.   After breakfast I started weed eating, oh dang it, I forgot to move the water again, its been over an hour.  This time I got the water moved but then instead of finishing the weed eating I remembered I had some new plants on the porch that needed water, better do that before they get to dry.  Now I need a drink, in to the kitchen I go only to find that the cat has played in my pile of broken plate and now it is everywhere again, I knew I forgot to do something after breakfast.   So here I set it's 2 in the afternoon, I finally cleaned up the broken plate but only because the cat knocked a brand new bottle of vanilla extract on the floor and now I have vanilla everywhere, why, because I forgot to put it away last night when I was cleaning the kitchen and went in to watch my dvr of Covert Affairs.  Oh and I see the bed is still just half made, and the kitchen is a mess because my breakfast stuff is still everywhere.  Having ADD is overwhelming to say the least.  Staying on task is a minute by minute struggle.

When I come back I will try and start somewhere at the beginning for whoever may read this.  You may have ADD or you may have a child with ADD and you/they struggle and struggle and you just feel like you get no where.  If you feel like this, get tested by a good doctor.  There is a book called the :Healing ADD: The Breakthrough Program That Allows You to See and Heal the 6 types of ADD by Daniel Amen.    Yes 6 types, we are not all in one category anymore.