WHO else knows ADHD and Christmas struggles? 🎄🕯️🫣

This is a lot of days late but…. Oh man!! This year I was just not into the “Christmas Spirit”. I bought the things for my 4 year old (and sort of for myself… HELLO LEGO 😆) and totally forgot to get things for others. I had a really been in such a deep depression that I honestly didn’t care. I kept apologizing to my son about me being sad and asked if it was okay that I didn’t put up a tree. Of course, having the spirit of his dad in him, he told me it would be fine. I seemed to try some days by putting out a little bit but it took all of my energy. But by falling into the guilty pressure of my mom and FIL, I put up a tree on the 23rd. I put this tree up and my son decorated it but it looked super weird. I just put it in my head that I was just tired and my 💊💊 had kicked in. The next morning, it still didn’t look right. Apparently, my mother (half of the guilty pressure team), had taken out the trees I had in my bag (1 for the living room & 1 tiny one for my kiddo’s room) and somehow mixed up all of my trees with hers 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ She had to bring me her bag of trees, so I could play a game of which tree goes with that one. On Christmas Eve, I took down one tree, put up my tree, decorated and put my final answers to the tree game back in her bag 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨 Then, I had to go to the store to, last minute, purchase tiny things for others. I came home and had to wrap ALL of my gifts, get ready for Santa and make sure I didn’t forget his treats, AGAIN 😭 Christmas Day seemed rushed having to drive everywhere to celebrate with everyone. Then, we had family come from out of town that I had to see so we could celebrate. As of today, my energy and my budget are still completely lacking!!! BUYING THINGS ARE SO FUN 🤩

See! This is what I mean! I am a little late(it’s the 27th), but this was me! I was all over the place! But, I am a very good crafty person! So I make a lot of my gifts, and I will give a few ideas for simple crafts or things you can make! I am so excited to share this, because I have never shared anything that involves my creativity on Numo! Thanks for posting this so I can share, Tayandtheirdog Crafts to make for gifts: 1. Learn to crochet, this is my favorite hobby that I have! It is so fun, but hard, to learn! Learning will make your ADHD mind work really hard. But I will make a massive post about all my crafts I do, and how they help with ADHD. 2. Custom ornaments, a personalized gift! Who doesn’t like a personalized thing? You can put their name, and anything on it! Hope I helped!

Oh honey, I'm late to answer but I totally get you! I have a lot of problems with decision-making, it puts me into a horrible state of freeze and executive dysfunction 🫣😂 So I was nearly always last-minute-buying on 24th (for the family and people that actually come by in the christmas days) before the shops closed OR would not give presents to anyone at all or buy them afterwards, still not knowing what to buy but just having to (friends) 🫣🥹 THIS YEAR I decided that I will give to the people what I would appreciate or rather - what I think that fits them. Present making should rather be "take this, I was thinking of you when I saw it/I thought u could use that" as a lovely gesture than being afraid the other person will not like it. Actually I guess people are just happy that you got them something anyways, I appreciate so many gifts even if I would have never bought them myself, because now it makes me think of them 🥰 I only baked 1 time this winter, 2 sorts of cookies and they were gone long before Christmas 😂 But I got a lot for present, so that was fine too 🥹 I just tried to remember myself that it's not a competition, christmas is the time of forgiving, of peace and love💫🧡