Ahhh, such music to my ears

201027May

I have a 21 year old daughter that suffers from ADHD. Living a peaceful, orderly, organized life has never been easy for her. We’ve had many challenges over the years and I’ve been extremely hard on her in many instances thinking that would straighten her out.

Because of my work as a Professional Organizer, I have taken countless classes on ADHD and have learned so much about it. Unbeknownst to me all of the years she was growing up, people with ADHD and being organized don’t normally gel together very well.

Since I wasn’t educated on ADHD when I was raising her, I would go back & forth between ignoring what she wasn’t doing and yelling at her for not putting things back where they belong, or telling her to stop putting her science homework in her math book, etc. For a large part of her life I would run behind her putting things back where they went so her days would still function smoothly, and because I was tired of yelling. I would remind her 6, 7, 8 or more times to do something, only to find that she’d forgotten anyway.

After I started my business in 2007, whenever I would try to help her, that’s putting make her mildly, get organized she’d quickly remind me that she didn’t hire me to help her get organized (she’s a sweetie but very stubborn). She moved out on her own a little over a month ago and she told me this past week that she would like my help getting her organized at her new place. Such sweet music to a mother’s ears.

We both acknowledged that she probably never even noticed how much I went behind her putting things back where they belonged. She admitted that being organized made life so much easier and that being disorganized was so very stressful. She was a walking commercial for what I do. It was a very exciting day for me, many years in the works finally paid off!

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