ADD-Inattentive & My Forgetfulness

Last night/this morning as I was trying to go to sleep I started making a list in my head of all the things that don't get done in my daily life or I forget to do. I don't know if I'll remember even 1/2 of them as the list seemed pretty endless. Here we go with my bulleted list of things I don't do:

• give messages to people

• dishes


• cat litter


• piles of laundry


• make important phone calls


• pay bills


• make bed


• vacuum


• dust


• play with kids


• play with the dog


• clean desk






• turn in school permission forms/payments: yr books, lunch $, fees






• trash


• recycling


• straighten son's bookshelf


• give things back to people that they've lent me even tho I'm done with it


• cash checks


• make dr/dentist appts
  
• remember son has bball on Wed after school


• return library books to avoid fines


• clean up after puppies were born IN AUGUST & left in OCTOBER!


• straighten up garage


• clean bathroom


• paint walls that have been fixed


• send "thank you notes" to people who've been kind or helped me in some way


• get in touch w/ grandma





• read my bible daily

• scrap booking


• go thru my piles & piles of papers


• having boys take showers/brush teeth


• making sure homework/reading gets done


• going thru boys backpacks

So, this is barely skimming the list of the things I forget on a daily basis. Every day of my life, many of those bullets above are being neglected! How God allowed me to be a parent is beyond me when I can barely take care of myself. I know, he knows what he's doing, but it still boggles my mind.

What things are on your list that you neglect on a daily basis? I'm not saying these are "bad" things, just part of our lives and living with this disorder. We're not alone in our day to day struggles.

~Mimi