A Tradition Like No Other...
It was just a simple nap. I wanted to catch a few zzz's. I didn't need to be totally dead to the world like my child can be when she sleeps, just a mom nap. You know the kind. The one where you're just kinda resting your eyes. A Sunday afternoon tradition like no other here in the good ole USA. After all the hustle and bustle of getting everyone up and dressed and fed and out the door to church, I think moms are kind of deserving of a short nap when the afternoon hours roll around, don't you? My husband was busy staining the fence in the backyard and I wasn't about to stop that work in progress. Big sister was playing next door. This left me with the six-year-old and the three-year-old. Sadly, they had already lost the privilege to watch t.v. (I say unfortunately because taking away tv time is the single most painful punishment a mother can inflict on herself in the history of motherhood. You know it was bad if I had to resort to punishing myself.) So anywa...