Chickens...

I wrote this last fall. Tell me what you think.  : )

O.K. I'm not A.D.D.

Really, I'm not.(well maybe a little. . .)

My problem is that I sometimes have multiple thoughts running through my head at once. My thoughts and actions usually resemble the book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie". Sometimes it is a bad thing. For example :

     I sit down to read my Biology textbook and remember the dress that I am altering for a friend. I get up to go make sure that it is ready for her to try on and see the embroidery pattern that I started last night. I sit and work on that for a while until I either get bored, or remember a post that I am working on for this blog. So I get up to go finish the post, only to find my brother on the computer. I wrestle him off and start "Google-ing" whatever comes to mind, usually using key words like vintage, sewing, tutorials, and patterns. I find a random knitting pattern from the 1940's, print the pattern, and grab my knitting needles. I can't find a yarn that would suit the pattern so I put the pattern on my desk for "later". I see the Biology textbook on the desk but toss the knitting pattern on top of the open book. Now I'm starting to get hungry. One of three things will happen next. I will either 1) dig in the pantry to try to find a snack bar, 2) notice that I have access to all the ingredients for a new recipe that I found while "Google-ing" and try to convince my mom to let me make it (usually the answer is no), or 3) it is now so late that mom tells me to make supper. After supper mom reminds me that I still haven't finished reading Biology. I go back to the desk and fight the urge to attempt the knitting pattern that I tossed onto my desk. Since I am a morning person, I am to tired to read Biology at this point, but I force myself to read something(usually forgetting it thereafter). I then take a shower, crawl into bed, and read either the book that I got for Christmas but haven't found the time to read yet, or the book that I started reading a few months back but never finished.

My mom says that I waste a whole lot of time. And after reading this, you may think this, too. You may say that I waste a lot of my time every day. But the truth is I waste my school time doing projects and my project time doing school. This cycle leaves both myself and my mom very frustrated. I still struggle to control my thoughts and actions, but I am getting better, though. Trust me, it was a lot worse. At least I'm finishing my schoolwork.

I write all of this to say that it does get better. With time and patience it does get better.

Oh yeah! you may be asking yourself "what in the world does all her ramblings have to do with chickens?!" A good friend of my mom called it "chasing chickens". Jumping from one thing to the next. Sometimes when we say something totally random, my mom will say, "Oh look! It's a chicken!"


Fly with Christ!
Rachel : )
P.S. For those of you who think you are above those who have trouble controlling their thoughts, I personally think that everyone has those A.D.D. moments. Just my two cents!