J*E*L*L*O

[csberry]

The in-laws stormed the house around 9:30am. Soon, we were all out in the yard doing various weeding tasks in the different mulched areas and beds. By 1pm, we had: pulled weeds, sprayed Roundup, spread mulch, sprinkled pre-emergent weed stuff on new mulch, altered one gutter downspout to turn south farther up so the pipe maintained a good angle from the corner of the house to the edge of the mulched area, trimmed two large limbs off the maple tree, and cut those limbs into smaller chunks to carry to the curb. I sawed my right arm off today - FIGURATIVELY - by having to cut the metal downspout and struggling with the back portion where the metal overlaps and then doing all the tree trimming by myself sans chainsaw. My right shoulder and arm have moments of weakness and trembling this afternoon.

I'm really hoping that the kids will permit a lazy afternoon for me to recover. A nap would be bliss, but I must fight the urge to think about such things. The two minutes of rolling my feet over my foot massager was filled with husky sighs of gratitude (yeah, it sounded as dirty in real life as the description).

The boys are definitely getting melatonin at bedtime if there are any indications of resistance to slumber.

Comments

[jessicall411.livejournal.com]

Wow, sounds like a lot of work. Good luck on the arm. Heating pads are wonderful.

Also, I thought you had to take melatonin an hour or 2 before it would be effective? I could be wrong, but I thought I read it in an article about changing your sleep cycle. Not that one article is the be-all end-all on answers about melatonin. Anyway.

[csberry.livejournal.com]

*shrugs*

The boys have been passing out about 30-45 minutes after they take melatonin. bluevinylangel has praised melatonin's help getting her boys down when their sleep gets out of whack.

[jessicall411.livejournal.com]

interesting. I'll have to keep that in mind. :)