A nap and a nappy are two totally different things and no reader, British or otherwise would get confused. Just from the context alone, it's clear :)

And will you be up for all hours of the night because of said sleep episode? I wouldn't be able to go to sleep tonight until, well, tomorrow.

I'm the same way. I KNOW there are people that can lay down for 30 minutes and feel refreshed. I really wish I was one of them. I lay down and I can not get up 30 minutes later. When I finally drag myself up an hour or so later I'm groggy the rest of the evening. So instead of being refreshed I'm out of it.

I am the same way when I nap, and every time I do nap I wake up thinking "WHY!?"

I am also a crabby napper, as is one of my sons. And it drives my husband and the OTHER son nuts, because they wake up all refreshed and cheery and Henry and I are all GO AWAY AND STOP LOOKING AT ME.

Pleasant.

That totally sucks to be you. I love naps. Daytime nappy, I feel happy. :) Sorry. Couldn't resist.

me too! me too!

i wake up all groggy and disoriented. daytime nappy? i feel wacky.

(you started it)

I wasn't a daytime napper until my daughter was born. Since that started the phase where I never got much more than 5 hours of sleep a night (which continues to this day), when she was little, I took to the habit of taking a nap with her on a Weekend afternoon. Now, I must admit... I miss those naps.

Grew up in a household where daytime napping was allowed only if the napper was close to death from tuberculosis, measles or consumption.
Naps post four years old were strictly forbidden. Now I am married to a champion napper and have a very hard time understanding the ability to lay down in the MIDDLE of a perfectly good day with a thousand things left undone and close one's eyes.
I resent him these naps. I, like you, feel close to death warmed over when I DO wake from an infrequent nap. Maybe this is because I only succumb to naps when I've had too much to drink at a brunch time baby shower. So it's not the naps fault, it's the hangover.

Oh I know what you mean! I can't nap, not matter how tired, during the day. It's worse than my PMS when I wake up. Cranky and nasty am I!

I hate napping too! You should employ my anti-nap ritual:
http://selfmademom.net/2007/02/27/my-anti-nap-ritual/

It works. Be gone naps!

I am exactly the same about naps, and it's so frustrating. I wake up nauseated, disoriented and groggy. I never recover for the rest of the day, except that I then have trouble falling asleep at bedtime.

I know exactly what you mean. I like a daytime "rest" when I can snag it on the weekend... just 20 minutes or so, of vegetation on the couch.

If only I could stay awake all day. Or get up at 7. Or both.

When the grandchildren came over I use to get tired from looking after them. Even my grown up kids can be a bit taxing at times.

I found a new supplement drink that picked me up and we ended up starting up with them because it is a benefit to all of us.

I forgot to tell everyone where I got the supplement drink from. Not that I am trying to push the drink. I hope it helps other moms out to.

http://www.teamsizzle.com/?id=228

Hope you all like the picture. It's not one of my favorites.

Sometimes I'm like that, sometimes I'm not. The kicker is - I never know in what state I will wake, so I just nap and hope for the best.

I agree, I feel even worse after taking a nap during the day to.

Nap, what's a nap? I haven't had one of those since my two under two boys joined our household. I'm thinking maybe I'll get a nap in about five or ten years!