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Do you allow yourself a nap in the daytime once in a while? Like when you feel quite zoned out, and too tired to hold up your head any longer?
I used to think naps for very young kids or older people who had nothing else to do and so they indulged in naps because they didn't have the strength to make it through a day. Definitely a sign of aging, or nearing the end of their lives.
That may be true for some. But when I am not feeling 100% well, a nap is a wonderful treat, It doesn't have to be long, even just a half hour nap can refresh my mind and will so I'm able to take up a task and do a much better job at it.
My Gr'ma Kroeker understood the value of a nap. I learned this from her.
I had started school already, where I heard about family vacations. I begged Mom for one. She explained that our family could not afford a trip to go see interesting sights. I could however, go over to Gr'ma's house and help her with picking berries and some cucumbers from her gardens.
Gr'ma and I would go picking berries in her garden beside the driveway in the mornings. Raspberries, gooseberries, black currents, and others in the garden beside the driveway.
After lunch she insisted that we both needed naps to get rested for picking in the afternoon. She covered me on the couch with a small blanket, then she went to her bedroom for her nap. When I woke in the afternoon, she had a snack ready for us. Then we went to the BIG garden, some distance into the pasture.
We picked several pails full of peas, beans, dug up carrots, and so on - whatever was ripe enough that day. When we had our red wagon full of pails of nice vegetables I would help her pull it back to the house.
We would sit in the shade of the house and clean off the stems, leaves, etc., to ready them ready for canning.
The naps all made good sense; as Gra'ma explained, if we took naps we'd be stronger for our work, and we would also live longer.
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I had used my old electric heating pad for a number of years, but last week I was getting rather frustrated with it. Even with two fabric pouches over it, it was lumpy and tended to shut itself off about every 15-20 minutes.
A friend had taken me to an X-ray appoint- ment, and that day was taking me to my chiropractor appointment. I had hoped to stop at Walmart for a new one, and showed off how - if I took off the two fabric slip- covers, it was obvious that the plastic pouch over the wiring had sort of melted over the wires in odd lumpy ways so it could not be flatttened out nicely any more. We had not made it to Walmart, but I showed him how pathetic this heating pad looked.
He promised to get me one, and the next day he was at the door to hand me the box it came in. I opened it willingly and was surprised to see a much better heating pad than my old one.
The old one needed the dial gismo reset every 30 minutes or less. The new one can be set and forgotten for 2 hours!
The pad is bigger, nice and flat, no lumps, does a wonderful job of heating my back so the pain disappears for several hours!
What a wonderful gift! Just what I needed!
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