ADDing Calm2Chaos: Best part of ADD? Hyper focus & hyper organization and I do love projects!!

Since being diagnosed 2 months ago with ADD and borderline OCD, so much of why I do things the way I do them makes so much sense. Would I change who I am? Definitely not. I just understand myself that much better.

So, since starting my new job, I needed to get things organized. So I devised a master plan ... a schedule of all the tasks I wanted to complete during the week so I could relax on the weekends. In order for this plan to be effective.. there were a few projects that I needed to get out of the way first and, as usual, a chain reaction of hyper organization and creativity followed - or as my husband refers to them as - Make work projects. lol

So in my own special way, the cookies/pantry/freezer/apples/applesauce/recipe book projects began in earnest....

My kids and hubby love home baked goods and I used to enjoy baking a lot more than I do know. So I wanted to make it easier to bake more often. So I gathered together all the dry ingredients and prepared chocolate chip & spicy dads cookie mix bags - which was highly effective - for the first 2 weeks.

My pantry is pretty awesome and huge. It holds a tonne of stuff and often looks more like the chaotic photo. I needed to make room for the lovely bin full of premeasured cookie mix. I am proud to say that since I last reorganized the pantry it has pretty much stayed this way.

For most people, discovering someone is giving away free apples is a simple experience. I got 2 boxes of free apples. It turned into an applesauce making extravaganza! Which I soon tired of and instead, cut, bagged and froze the remainder to finish another time. We had our meat order coming, {we get a 1/4 cow every 6 moths} so the freezer needed to be reorganized to accommodate the meat,, and the bagged apples and applesauce.

Next brilliant idea was to reduce the amount of cookbooks I have. I used only a dozen or so recipes out of them so why not make a nice recipe book for myself. So I dug out my scrapbooking papers, a cutter, pens and recipe cards and proceeded to make the prettiest recipe book ever.