I read this online a while ago and loved it! It's definitely a must read!! I think I might have this disorder...LOL!
CHILD ACTIVATED ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER (C.A.A.D.D.)
“I decide to do the laundry. As I start toward the basement, I notice that there are cheerios all over the floor and my house keys are in the cereal bowl. I decide to pick up the cheerios before I do the laundry. I lay my keys down on the counter, put the cheerios in the trash can under the counter, and notice that the trash can is full. So, I decide to take out the trash. But then I think, since I’m going to be near the mailbox when I take out the trash I may as well pay the bills first. I take my check book off the table, and see that there is only one check left, my extra checks are in my desk in the office, so I go to my desk where I find a sippy cup full of juice. I’m going to look for my checks, but first I decide I should put the sippy cup in the refrigerator to keep it cold. As I head toward the kitchen with the sippy cup a plant on the counter catches my eye–it needs to be watered. I set the sippy cup on the counter, and I discover baby wipes that I’ve been searching for all morning. I decide I better put them back in the bathroom, but first I’m going to water the plants. I set the wipes back down, fill a container with water and suddenly I spot the TV remote, left on the kitchen table.I realize that when I go to watch TV, I will be looking for the remote, but I won’t remember that it’s on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I’ll water the plants. I splash some water on the plant, but most of it spills on the floor. So, I set the remote back down, get some paper towels and wipe up the spill. Then I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.
At the end of the day: the laundry isn’t washed, the bills aren’t paid, there is a warm cup of juice sitting on the counter, the plants aren’t watered, there is still only one check in my check book, I can’t find the remote, I can’t find the wipes, and I don’t remember what I did with my keys.
Then when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I’m really baffled because I know I was busy all day long, and I’m really tired.”
-author unknown
Happy Fifth birthday to my beautiful, intelligent, hilarious, sweetie pie Keira Zsanelle! I can't believe my oldest daughter is five years old! These five years went by way too fast for me. I remember it like it was yesterday, going into labor at two in the morning, Chad insisting that I'm in labor & "don't have to make doodoo" (because I was sitting in the bathroom thinking that I had to go number 2 for the longest time!) hahahaha Then two hours later instantly falling in love with her the moment I saw those big beautiful eyes (and perfect eyebrows)! It was the happiest day of my life, it's the day I became a mommy. Being a mother is honestly the best feeling in the world.
