How do I provide a worthwhile life for myself and 4 year old when I can't organize or function?

[Discoshorty]

I am a single mom of a 4 year old and I have ADD and depression. How do I organize enough to care for myself and my son? How do I maintain a quality of life when I can even manage to plan and cook dinner? I need regular exercise, sleep and healthy food to be able to halfway function, but providing this for myself seems impossible. From the time I wake up to the time we go to sleep I am just everywhere and accomplish nothing. This isn't helping to teach my son how to survive either.

[Emerald-Eyes]

Anytime to put together something to eat, write it down, and or anything you feel like adding at the time. I’m now on a doctor ordered diet, and then when my brain isn’t working to come up with ideas, I refer to my list. Anything you pull out if it looks on the low side write it down on a shopping list (or put into your cellphone). Terry Matlen puts hers meals on Index cards with the groceries needed on the back so she bring those with her to the store. Then reuses those cards over and over without having to rewrite anything.

When I cook I make a bit extra and refrigerate or freeze the rest. (Kind of like creating your own “fast” food.) I have limited physical energy also from illness so these help that. Terry Matlen suggests things like bagged salads or precut veggies or baby carrots Are ready to eat and preroasted chicken. You can go with Rotisserie still warm from store or frozen grilled. If you think healthy and convince combined. Apples and cheese or nuts. You can use an Apple corset/cutter. (Hole in center and sections all around. Pushe down on the Apple and its cuts all at once.) combine in blender spinach into you spagetti sauce and heat. I microwave to heat my sauce and precooked gr. Beef or not, using saucer plates over my regular cereal bowls. When I cook my gr. Beef I always put in powdered or fresh onion and garlic, salt then I can change up and add other herbs and spices a few servings at a time. Add canned veggies like beans or other to meat or separate if kid doesn’t go for mixing things. Can also make healthy smoothies. I’m going organic with everything as much as possible. Even canned veggies have in organic. Less chemicals and taste better if you can do it.

Mats and blankets for your kid to play on top of then pick up the ended and let play items side into containers for easier clean up. Look you do musical chairs, do musical clean up. When you pause music the freeze then together do a mini dance celebration. They see accomplishment in segments. Then a big celebratory dance t the end of clean up. Anything you can do to make things more fun will help with both your dispositions. Put a basketball hoop over the clothes basket, trash basket etc to help make doing those thing fun and they will get in their more. Clear or open lidded is easier to see where to put things and get into easier with less steps. Pegs for clothes. Two color sock all of the same kind black or blue and white. Any two socks will match up and they don’t have to be matched and rolled. Put in box, drawer, not have to worry about neat or lost singles.