Nap Time

As I grew up on Sundays there was always nap time.  This was the only day my mom would take a nap during the week & I was expected to lie down to take one or at least be quite during nap time.  I grew up in the Nazarene church & that is the church my mom grew up in also. So nap time was nicknamed Nazarene nap, in our house.  As I’ve gotten older I still take a nap on Sundays, I really think that nap time helps me get through the rest of the week.

Growing up Grandpa used to take nap time either right before lunch or right after lunch.  Whichever he felt like that day, LOL.  Also his cat Lady would climb on his stomach & take a nap right along with him.  Those are some good memories, every time I was at Grandma’s & Grandpa’s I would lay on the floor to try & get Lady to come nap on my stomach.  She would ever now & then, but her person was Grandpa.

I now have a son that’s 13 but when he was little he would of course like most babies have nap time.  At first it was two hour nap time, but when he was a few months old he started not sleeping thru the night.  Which is something he had always done, so we changed his nap time to an hour and a half.   This worked for a little while, he started sleeping thru the night again.  By the time he was one year old he was down to a one hour nap time each day.  By the time he was two years old he was only sleeping for fifteen minutes.  Most of the family couldn’t understand why in the world we weren’t allowing our son to take hour long nap time at the age of two.  But you know what our son had plenty of energy the rest of the day to play after nap time & slept thru the night also.

Nap time for our son at the age of three was pretty well non-existent.  If he took one it was a rare thing & only for five minutes or so.  Any longer than that & he got cranky then wouldn’t sleep that night.  I wonder when he gets even older if he will start wanting to take nap time or not.  If he does will it be only for fifteen minutes or so, like he used to.  My Great Aunt used to take a fifteen minute nap.  That’s all she needed to get her thru the rest of her day.

What about you?  Do you find yourself needing a nap time thru the week?  Maybe you should just go ahead & take one.  It might be the pick me up you need, instead of turning to caffeine for your pick me up.  So go ahead lie down & take that nap time.  I won’t judge:)