ADD Support Thread II - Page 10

[mamabohl]

ug, I have been sooo sick. I felt like total shit, but finally started feeling better yesterday. Just in time for my birthday! (today) I get a cheesecake and presents tonight, yay! I know what most of tehm are but dh picked out something on his own too, so there will be a surprise.

We don't really do much for Easter, we'll color eggs saturday and give the boys baskets on sunday and then do an egg hunt. Last year the boys took turns hiding the plastic eggs around the house all day, lol.

yay for your A Heidi!

We picked a name for our baby girl - Tessa Marie. :

Today i have to go grocery shopping, then I'm hoping to make it to a playgroup park day, cuz it's been a while and I need some adult interaction, then this evening after dinner and cheesecake I have to work at church for their special Easter service (I'm a paid nursery worker), and hopefully tonight I can go buy Easter stuff. Tomorrow we have a date night to celebrate our 8 year anniversary...if i don't get Easter stuff tonight I'll have to go tomorrow afternoon before date night. oy.

[heidirk]

What a pretty name, Mamabohl! We've got a basket for Henry and a stuffed rabbit for Milo (who has no clue anywya), and an egg hunt on Sunday that my Gram is pulling together.

Happy Birthday!!! (save me a slice of cheesecake!)


Maggirayne- My online classes are 6 weeks long. I had been about to start another one, but I need to get a garden in, and my brother is coming out this spring, and I get to meet my nephew for the first time!!! He's one! So we decided I could take the class after next.


Yeah- Smee- what're you doin' for Passover? How's the packing coming?


joyfulmom- did you have a discussion with your supervisor? I'm glad Maggirayne had some useful advice for you!

[smeisnotapirate]

Hey, all!

Love the name Tessa.

Seders were nice, though I'm already sick of matza and we're only 3 days in. Very no-stress for us, which is tip top. T-11 days to signing and not a SINGLE box is packed. My mom shows up this week, so hopefully we'll get some stuff done while she's here. Part of the thing is that there's no rush - our house isn't on the market at the moment and we're not moving into the new house immediately. But yeah - we need to get on it.

[heidirk]

Isn't it funny how the longer you have to do something the longer it takes to actually do it?

Maggirayne- how are you? how's babe/house/preggo-ness? any news?

I am suffering complete shutdown as a result of my class being done. I mean complete. Although the suffering part is relative. And my house is approaching something resembling clean.

I mean crawl into a hole and hibernate.

I shall now commence the highlight of my very exciting evening, and watch the Biggest Loser. (we should have a 'pickin' my nose' smiley!)

[Maggirayne]

Originally Posted by smeisnotapirate

Seders were nice, though I'm already sick of matza and we're only 3 days in. Very no-stress for us, which is tip top. T-11 days to signing and not a SINGLE box is packed. My mom shows up this week, so hopefully we'll get some stuff done while she's here. Part of the thing is that there's no rush - our house isn't on the market at the moment and we're not moving into the new house immediately. But yeah - we need to get on it.

Eeek! Packing!
I've never gotten to try Matza.
I did go to Israel my senior yr of HS, and oh, the food. We stayed on a kibbutz, oh, the tomatoes and cucumbers, and the bagels. Good thing I'm eating cottage cheese. And ice cream. ::

Originally Posted by heidirk

Isn't it funny how the longer you have to do something the longer it takes to actually do it?

Maggirayne- how are you? how's babe/house/preggo-ness? any news?

I am suffering complete shutdown as a result of my class being done. I mean complete. Although the suffering part is relative. And my house is approaching something resembling clean.

Heh, I realized I have 6 1/2 weeks before baby is here--and this place is seriously wrecked. :

Baby's been kicking like mad the last week. But is head down and so heartburn has gone away! : And I started (finally) going to the chiro--oh my word--I feel so much less tense. And she did the Webster, which my midwife said he(?) was LOP last visit, but I kept feeling kicks on my cervix. But that made the round ligament pain go away! : My back spasms are getting better.

I am so excited to have a homebirth.

Our trip to TX went great--Elisabeth flew great, was a wonderful traveler. I got several compliments. It's called constant distraction/toys/snacks. But she is easygoing. Granted, some kids aren't distracted so easily.

Originally Posted by heidirk

Maggirayne- My online classes are 6 weeks long. I had been about to start another one, but I need to get a garden in, and my brother is coming out this spring, and I get to meet my nephew for the first time!!! He's one! So we decided I could take the class after next.

joyfulmom- did you have a discussion with your supervisor? I'm glad Maggirayne had some useful advice for you!

Heh, the question is, did it actually help?

We had Easter last weekend--I ate waaaay too much candy!

Ah, 6 weeks, now that's a doable bit, not a monstrous chunk. I dream of starting midwife classes. But when I'm going to have at least two more kids--I think. . . eh. I'll have to wait a few unless DH decides to be a SAHD. But I don't like the idea of being *the* breadwinner.

Actually, this is an ADD question I've sorta pondered and connected, but never asked anyone else--well, duh, not just do you start a project and get tired, but a job, after the newness wears off and it becomes just routine, do you get tired of/hate it?
Teaching became like that--but then I was drowning and had next to no support. School became just hard. Any job after awhile.

Originally Posted by mamabohl

We picked a name for our baby girl - Tessa Marie. :

Today i have to go grocery shopping, then I'm hoping to make it to a playgroup park day, cuz it's been a while and I need some adult interaction, then this evening after dinner and cheesecake I have to work at church for their special Easter service (I'm a paid nursery worker), and hopefully tonight I can go buy Easter stuff. Tomorrow we have a date night to celebrate our 8 year anniversary...if i don't get Easter stuff tonight I'll have to go tomorrow afternoon before date night. oy.

Happy Anniversary! Yum, cheesecake!
Hope you feel/get better. Hit the garlic and the Vitamin C. I take 4-8 a day of each. It makes a huge difference for me.

Pretty name!

[smeisnotapirate]

Glad you're feeling better, Alyse! I can't wait to see a pic of your new little one!! I'm getting baby crazy now that Toby is pushing 11 months. I promised him a year of breastmilk, so no trying until June.

No trying until June.

No trying until June.



Matza is yummy in small quantities. And for matza pizza - :. But 8 days is a bit much.

[Maggirayne]

Originally Posted by smeisnotapirate

Glad you're feeling better, Alyse! I can't wait to see a pic of your new little one!! I'm getting baby crazy now that Toby is pushing 11 months. I promised him a year of breastmilk, so no trying until June.

No trying until June.

No trying until June.

Wait, you will be glad, IMO. It is no fun having no patience with a toddler. But I suppose 3 yo isn't much better. I didn't mind dry-nursing, but it sure is not comfortable. I hate that E didn't get milk to two. And on our trip, she was kinda sick, puked, not hungry, not drinking, we were in TX, and I was worried about her getting dehydrated.

I really miss nursing. And at this point I'm like it didn't always hurt? Really?! Wow. Well, she hasn't latched on in at least a week.

DH is not keen on her nursing after baby's here. But she does fall asleep good at night, so if she nurses just in the mornings and for naps, that will be fine, but I think she'll ask as soon as she sees baby nursing. She loooves nunnies. She'll wake up and snuggle and say "I wike mommy's nunnies. I wuv mommy's nunnies." And she pretends to nurse.

[heidirk]

Smee- you crack me up- no trying till june!

I don't know about Matzos being yummy, they taste like saltines to me, but w/o the salt! I did make a spinach/matzo casserole that was very nice once! :

I lasted three months into pg w'the nursing thing. DS1 never had a good latch, and once he got teeth- wow! But after I got pg, I just could. not. I know it's partly b/c of my sensory issues, too. When Milo came, I had actually forgotten how nice it is to nurse someone who has no teeth! Now that we have two, I'll likely nurse Milo till he's at least two, b/c we're ot planning on trying again until he's talking and using the potty.

Maggirayne-I'm glad you're feeling better and I'm jealous about your homebirth! My house mysteriously got messier the closer I got to Milo's due date, even thought I was working so hard to tidy it up! It's funny b/c I KNOW I was tired, but I really can't remember what being that tired felt like.



Eh, the job thing. . . I think, yes, we can burn out on pretty much anything if it gets too frustrating. It's neat you're drooling over MW training, b/c I've been drooling over it too, ever since Henry's birth! Maybe I can combine Missionary work with good midwifery care?


The sun is shining today, and I should really get some laundry done, but I should really rest too. I haven't been sleeping well, and this morning DH told me I've been snoring very loudly for a couple of weeks now. He said to me, 'it actually sounded painful sometimes!' Yeah, ya think?

[smeisnotapirate]

Toby's starting to nip a bit too. So not fun. He just sucks SO hard and he tries to get half my boob into his mouth so I quickly get to the point where I feel like my breast (because it's not just my nipples any more) is being sucked raw. I don't know how to fix it, though. His latch is good, it's just WIDE and the suction is ridiculous.

[Maggirayne]

Ugh, is there a LLL or someone you can ask? Has he always had such a strong suck?

Yeah, I am so amazed that DH agreed to a homebirth, and glad. I cry when I think about it. I am so excited!

[heidirk]

Hi guys, how're all the boobies?



I've had a busy week, but now it's done and I feel like I had fun! It's been up and down a lot, and I haven't been sleeping well, but I only majorly screwed up one thing this week! I forgot missions meeting again. Oh, and I was late for the bridal shower today, because I forgot it wasn't at the one girl's house, it was at church.

I also found my Motivated Moms download! : My computer is behaving itself for the moment and DH got the taxes done and mailed in time. even if he did stay up till 3:30 am to do it!


We have discovered some carpet beetles, and so are doing some hard core cleaning, like today DH took out one of the storm window frames and scrubbed out the inside b/c there had been dead wasps in there, and apparently carpet beetles like dead things and will live in windows! yick! consequences of living in a 110 yr old house built of wood and horsehair plaster.

The upshot is I have new curtains, and I have conviced DH it would be a good idea to paint the kitchen!!!!!

And Stanley Steamer will be getting a call from me shortly to schedule a full house carpet cleaning! : Now if we can just keep this ball rolling- I'll be one happy duck come fall!


oohhh, and I got my tomato seedlings repotted, with the incidental help of ds1, who loves potting soil.

let's here it for manic energy!

[Maggirayne]

Ha, any energy would be good.

Actually, I got all but one of the piles in the bedroom picked up. And clothes put away. One thing about having seasons is seasonal clothing. Sigh. And then add maternity, I don't know what to pull out for the summer!

DH was pretty encouraging and helped me get laundry done.

I started making a necklace for a lady who liked mine. Hopefully I can finish it tomorrow.

[flminivanmama]

hey mamas - there was a pretty helpful article in the NY times today about sending our ADD/HD kiddos off to college and some things we'll need to think about. I know I'm at least 10 years away but it still made me think of things I'll need to keep in mind

also I know some of you all are in college yourselves...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/ed...college&st=cse

[Maggirayne]

Ya wanna know how ADD I am?
I've never really read your name until today, Andrea. I've always read it ans it sounded in my head like fliminvimin. I'm not even sure I read the mama.

Does anyone else skip over words, well not words, I read words, but I think it's abbreviations like that. Like I used read smeisnotapirate and wonder if it was same as not a pirate until I read your explanation on MDC somewhere.

Maybe (ha!) my braini s just weird.

Thanks for the article!

[jessjgh1]

I often skip over lots of words. I've always been a skimmer. It's good often, I mean I easily skip over all the ads on websites. When I've needed to cram, I could skim a lot and capture much of the content I needed too (at least till I ended up in killer weed out college classes)

I really skim books and even songs. I like music, but I rarely actually know what the words are. I could read and LOVE a whole book and not be able to tell you what it was about, or what all the characters names are. I just read/listen for enjoyment and dont' really remember much. Although, I seem to do okay with most series books--- like as soon as I'm back in the books 'world' I remember most of what I need to. FOr me the music or story is really just about an 'essence'- it makes me feel a certain way during the song or book, but I don''t really retain much.

It's funny, dh and I sometimes have read (not lately) books around the same time. He'll pronounce the names differently than I will. Often I don't really even know how I pronounce them. If I 'say' them in my mind it is like I have not said them yet and if I try to say them outloud how I read them, I can't always do it. I'll have to say it a few times outloud and figure it out and then I realize how the words and what my mind processes/'hears' dont' really connect.
But the songs thing, for me is really pronounced. I'd NEVER do karaoke, I'd be too embarrassed and it takes me forever to memorize songs, even simple kids songs. I can have a conversation about a book I've read and manage okay, but I couldnt repeat lyrics or tell you what a song is really about. It is really hard for me to actually understand the words. I've always had a hard time with memorizing things, too.

And for screennames, I do often really skim them and dont' 'see' them either. But then other times, the unique screen names often make it easier for me to place someone. I do find myself glancing at them (and user titles/locations) from time to time, because they are just an endless source of amusements

Is yours Maggi rain or Maggi I ran or something else?

Mine is just Jess (short for jessica) and my old email jgh1- not very creative, but one I can remember since I was on a few sites. I used to be chilla or chillaj, but that one was always taken, so I came up with a lame newer one and try to stick with it, lol.

Jessica

[jessjgh1]

Thanks for keeping the thread going... I have to say I LOL at the 'how're all the boobies comment'
We are suddenly in the middle of putting our house on the market, hoping maybe to be able to sell it and move, but it has been a LOT of work, actually pretty much all I've been doing.
I have so many questions, but no time, lol.

I'm almost through with my very -overdue copy of So I'm not stupid.....
I also have a copy of a Workbook for ADHD, which I need to get my dh to read too. It looks pretty helpful
http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Your...0192309&sr=8-1

Anyone go through the book??

One thing I HATE to do is workbooks. I hate having a record (my writing) IN the book. I don't like to have a record of something I've started and not finished. Or when I write messy (like I start out wanting to do it, but wanting to write everything 'neatly' but then I write messy because I always start to scrawl when I'm in a hurry).

Anyways, I can download the worksheets for the most part, so I'll do that, but it is interesting the many ways I can be 'blocked' as well as the sheer lack of time.

And since I don't really have a final 'diagnosis' other than, its likely to probably that I have ADD, its frustrating because I sometimes dont' feel it totally fits, but the methods really do seem like they would really help, so even w/o a diagnosis I should just move forward.

Have a couple folllow up appts. in 2 weeks, which I _really_ need to get a list of questions together for.

Take care everyone!
rambly Jessica


Jessica

[heidirk]

Andrea- thanks for that link!

Magirayne- you are too funny! I do that too, I'll just kind of skim over something and it gets an assigned sound in my head like, 'msbfyiutb' !! Or I'll transpose syllables and read Gawain as Gaiwin in my head for years until one day I read the book and discover that's not the poor guys name at all!

jess- seems like we've had an active spring in the sore boobies department!

good luck with that appointment, I hope you can get good questions written down and be coherent when you talk to the doc.

I need to get another copy of that book, I'll leave the workbook though, I hate workbooks.


I hate moving so much that you guys who are/have moving/moved are giving me a massive case of stressed induced itchies! : It seems like whenever I get stressed my skin just goes insane, like the only way my body can express the emotions is physically.

my psoriasis is sooooo bad right now, and one night my ds1 said to me, 'mommy what's that on your leg?' nad I told him it was just momma's itchy skin. he told me, 'you better get rid of it!' yeah, babe, I'd love too.


very much channelling my excess energy into house cleaning right now, and yard stuff, etc. lovin' spring, that's me!

[flminivanmama]

LOL - people always misread my user name. most people think it's something with "flaming" in it...

it's supposed to be "florida (FL) minivan mama" I got it from an article I read soon after becoming a mom on salon.com
http://archive.salon.com/mwt/feature...van/index.html



I also skim, btw

[heidirk]

did you just change your senior member title? I think I would have remembered 'dunderhead'!!

[flminivanmama]

lol, no, it's been dunderhead for a ridiculously long time... I was thinking maybe I should change it because Michael & Pam no longer work for dunder-mifflin! I don't know what I'd change it to though.....