{"id":354,"date":"2010-09-06T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=354"},"modified":"2010-09-06T03:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T03:45:00","slug":"sun-beams-and-nap-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"Sun Beams And Nap Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give  to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not  be afraid. ~John 14:27<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TIRkWQ_FOXI\/AAAAAAAAJIE\/a3FuuZBuvkU\/s1600\/DSC07493.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TIRkWQ_FOXI\/AAAAAAAAJIE\/a3FuuZBuvkU\/s320\/DSC07493.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513642177487780210\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I relish nap time&#8230; or at least I would if I stayed awake long enough to enjoy that sweet snug feeling that comes when I flop down on my bed in the middle of the day.  I always try to find a sun beam to warm me as I snooze, like an old cat that way.  I lay there for a brief moment and think &#8216; I need to drink this in&#8217;; but then I am already asleep.  Life is taxing on a mommy of four and I need my naps.<\/p>\n<p>However, a nap not so many days ago ended up being a time of delightful reflection.  To my great joy, my third child, Little Woman, enjoys a snugly nap in the sun beams as much as I.  She curled up with me and was sound asleep in no time.  As is normal I crashed.  About 20 minutes into my nap I awoke and felt very refreshed.<\/p>\n<p>I made the decision to stay put and drink the minutes in from my cozy spot.  At first only my mind seemed to make noise&#8230;  then I heard the tick tick of the bed side clock&#8230; the song of a couple little birds in my neighborhood&#8230; the buzz of the fridge&#8230; and the soft breathing of my daughter.  I stretched out and tickled the sun beam with my happy toes.  A smile covered my face as I enjoyed the moment.  Wrapping my arms gently around my daughter I played with the hair flopped over her sweet pink ear.  The smile increased as I let love for her warm in my chest.  I sighed deeply, a long, heavy delighted with life kind of sigh that only can be found in delicious moments of peace.<\/p>\n<p>It was quiet enough to pray with little effort, and so I did.<\/p>\n<p>TTFN<br \/><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. ~John 14:27 I relish nap time&#8230; or at least I would if I stayed awake long enough to enjoy that sweet snug feeling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,10,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}