From August 5, 2012
Household chores are a challenge for me. It seems that there is a constant battle to maintain a somewhat clean home. I do try to keep things clean and my house is actually fairly organized. (No clean and organized are not synonyms.) Between, work, life and having ADHD it is just hard. Actually my struggles with maintaining a clean home are normal for adult women with ADHD. I have discovered several things that help me keep things under control. If I can stay on-top of the laundry and dishes life is good.
Ever noticed if you leave one towel or the floor or even one sock somehow a pile of clothes appears out of nowhere. It is as if the clothes jump out of the closet while I’m at work each day. It seemed like that no matter how hard I tried we always had a pile of laundry to wash. Or even worse a pile of clean clothes that never got put up. It always seemed we ran out of clean clothes at the absolute worse time. So there was a constant struggle to do just enough to get by because I never had time to catch up. Dishes were another source of turmoil. I would try to cook healthy meals but never have the time or energy to clean the kitchen after dinner. After a long day of work, fixing dinner and of course trying to squeeze in some laundry I just couldn’t face the kitchen. Then the sink would seem to take over my whole kitchen. Just walking into the room and seeing the mess would zap all energy out of me. I felt defeated before I could even start. Two baby-steps I learned from The FlyLady were to have a shiny sink every night before you go to bed and system for doing laundry: one load in the morning, swap in middle of the day and one load at night. Usually I just do a load when I come home in the evening and maybe one before going to bed. When I do those two simple things life and my house is easier to manage. Another thing I learned from the FlyLady is to have daily routines that “automate” the house and ones life. By sticking with simple routines like picking out clothes for the next day and packing lunches at night life is much easier. While my mornings still start why too early it is less hectic.
So you may be wondering what faith has to do with dishes and laundry. Well the Christian life has routines or disciplines that make things less chaotic as well. Routines like prayer, Bible Study, worship, service and just some alone time with God. These are the building blocks that help be stay connected with my faith. When I neglect these routines my life begins to become cluttered with junk.
105 Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path. (Psalm 119:105, New International Version)
The Dee Zone 