Jack naps once a day, anywhere from 45 minutes to 3 hours. Usually, it’s an hour and a half. I wish that somehow I would know how long it was going to be beforehand. Then I’d know whether it was worth trying to lie down for a nap, or get involved in a project that might last more than 45 minutes. So many times I spend the first part of the nap doing chores/eating lunch/reading email, that when it comes up to a little after an hour, I am unsure of what to do next.
If I think, “Maybe it’ll be a long nap today. I’ll start working on something that will take me an hour,” no doubt he’ll wake up in the middle of said project. If I think, “He’s going to wake up soon,” I end up surfing the web or wasting time while he sleeps another hour. Decisions, decisions!
*I think The Naptime Dilemma would be a good title for the 13th book in Simon Hawke’s TimeWars series.
