Starting my morning at 6am and going flat-chat with bills, cleaning, shopping, pet care, prescriptions, laundry, book work, parenting and paid employment outside the home, I do tend to get a bit pooped by around two in the afternoon.

Having read a book on the Mediterranean Diet which explained how an early afternoon siesta is just as good for you as blood pressure medication, I feel I'm saving the nation money by staying well.

This past week has been particularly trying as I coped with specialist appointments, teens heading back to school, puppies needing vaccinations, a husband disappointed that his motor sport event at Phillip Island has been cancelled, again, and a dead chook.

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Thank goodness this was on the back of a fabulous COVID-safe trip to Melbourne which cost me three days and three kilos.

My sister Tamara and I finally got the chance to deliver our 2019 Christmas present to our mum - who turns 80 this year.

Blood cancer certainly isn't slowing you down much mum!

We took Rosalie for High Tea at the Windsor, with a wander around the Rippon Lea estate in Elsternwick beforehand to see Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears - The Exhibition.

Bundling-up the celebration of Katianna embarking on her university studies, my niece entering secondary education and mum's big year, seemed like a fabulous excuse to overeat.

Tottering around mansions and gardens in glitzy high heels and drinking tea with one's pinky out does tend to build up an appetite for a couple of three tiered platters of sweet and savoury snippets and a long nap in the afternoon, I find.

The incredible woman who raised me and who is absolutely eligible to take a 'nanna nap' though, has always refused to do so.

She tried it once, apparently, and it didn't agree with her, so she's chosen to give it a miss for her entire life.

Fair enough, but it does make me feel like a bit of a goose when I need a little lay down.

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