If naps are good...

...how come children always fight them??

I wish I was one of those people who had high energy. Ive always had a little bit of a slump in the afternoons...4pm is the worst time of the day for me personally.

Growing up I thought it was the dumbest thing ever when my mom would want to lie down in the afternoon just for like "20 minutes" she would say. I mean if you are going to take a nap (which ,back then ,was strictly out of the question) why not actually take a REAL nap. Or, when she would encourage us on Sunday afternoons when we were supposed to be napping that we didnt really have to sleep but we had to "rest".

In college I learned the joy of the 2-3 hour nap...after classes were done, before dinner...got you ready for a night out; OR the rejuvanating nap after a night out...

When the girl was a baby and she would go down for that long afternoon nap I would sometimes catch a good sleep for an hour or so.

Now, nothing is so good to me as a "rest" I swear it does revive me and I understand what my mother was talking about all those years. Its not actually sleeping but just closing your eyes for a few minutes and chilling out. It actually works. (I think back in the 80's this is what they called the power nap)

Yeah, its a good thing...