2017 Visit from St. What’s-his-Name

ADD and Christmas Too
Something wonderful from years ago becoming an OFI tradition

© Madelyn Griffith-Haynie, CTP, CMC, ACT, MCC, SCAC

Merry Christmas!  I’m sharing one of my favorite Christmas presents with YOU below.

Found HERE

‘Twas the nite before Christmas . . .

I’m about to share one of the most clever of the versions of the rewriting of the Clement Moore original — ESPECIALLY for ADD/EFDers, ADD Coaches and everyone struggling with Executive Functioning challenges and last-minute Christmas oopses!

When you click the link below – and I truly hope you WILL – you will find only a couple of paragraphs of back-story before jumping directly into a really fun story about a Christmas that was almost a disaster.

If you have kids, you will definitely recognize many of your very own Christmas Eves when your children were little – and maybe even STILL!

So I’ll give you a taste below, and then send you over to read the rest — instead of spending my time to keep posting it again and again.  (It’s not that long, and the best part is still to come – so DO click to read it!)

If you share it (and I hope you WILL), you must provide a link back to the post and credit both the Optimal Functioning Institute™ and the author.

BECAUSE it is slated for inclusion in an upcoming ADD Anthology, make sure you don’t drop out “ownership” and link or things might get legal, okay?

Neat links to more Christmas stuff below, by the way.  Check ’em out, and feel free to leave a link to one of your own in the comments below.

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If you have several, leave ’em in separate comments.

A Visit From St. What’s His Name

by Janine Baker for
© Madelyn Griffith-Haynie and
The Optimal Functioning Institute™

T’was the night before Christmas
And all through the place
Not an item was finished
(”Twas a state of disgrace.)

The stockings were strewn
In a mess on the chair.
The dog ate the sugarplums
Batteries?? Where!!!!

“We’ve less than four hours!”
My wife said in fright.
“All my plans turned to chaos,
And the tree, it’s a sight!!”

I said “I’m not worried,”
(OK so I lied)
But the job falls to me here
To take things in stride

When my wife’s ADD
Hits its peak in December.
But this was the worst
Christmas Eve I remember.

Click to read the entire poem HERE

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Attribution with gratitude:
Tiny Santa with star courtesy of Phillip Martin, artist/educator
and, of course, Clement Clarke Moore for the original inspiration: The Night Before Christmas

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You might also be interested in some of the following articles
available right now – on this site and elsewhere.

A Few LinkLists by Category (to articles here on ADDandSoMuchMore.com)

• The Optimal Functioning (Challenges) Series of articles
  (about the Inventory & articles from each category)
• Group Coaching LinkList

• Back from Boggle™ Series
• The TaskMaster™ Series
• Time & Time Management articles
• The Transition Tamer™ Series
• The Stuff and Nonsense™ Series (clutter management)
• Top Ten Reasons to Reframe Procrastination
  (and LinkList to the procrastination/activation articles)

Links ’round the ‘web:

• FEMINIST FRIDAY – MRS. SANTA CLAUS
• Ani’s Advent – A Visit
• The Flowering Vine: ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
• 12 Ways to Maintain the Christmas Spirit AFTER Christmas
• Stuck for Ideas for Christmas Presents for Your Man?
• 25 Winter & Christmas blog post ideas
• How to make a Christmas wreath using chocolates and tinsel
• The Distraction of Christmas?
• Cozy Spotify Christmas Playlist

A FEW of my twelve FOURTEEN Pinterest Christmas-themed Boards
(Go Take a look for some Christmas inspiration)
(hover before clicking links below for brief description)

• Deck the Halls
• O Tannenbaum
• Christmas Baubles and Beads
• North Pole Neighbors
• Silent Nite
• Heard on High
• DIY Xmas Gifts
• I LOVE Christmas in New York!
• Holiday Home Tours
• Ho Ho Ho – Xmas Chuckles