On Napping

We nap.  Every day in the Pipke home between the hours of 1- 3pm all is quiet and still.  Weekday, weekend - doesn't matter.  We nap.  I went through a phase of feeling guilty about it.  I felt I should be up and doing.  And some days I do.  But, most days at around 1pm....I lay down and give a big relaxed happy sigh.  Close my eyes and drift off for an hour of restoration and rejuvenation. 

I have a recipe for a really good nap:

1st: cherry-pit bag (which Lucy calls my berry bag) heated up for exactly 2.5 minutes in the microwave

2nd: my fan.  All Hail White Noise!  Can I get an amen?

3rd: iPod.  Enough said.

4th: baby monitor.  Where I softly hear the sound of Lucy's fan while she sleeps & then her darling little voice saying, "hi sweetie!" when she wakes up.