On Sunday night, Breanna was restless and woke up many times during the night, which of course woke me up as well. As a result, I was tired on Monday. I actually had a migraine and George had to take over getting Hayley ready for school because the pain in my head was incapacitating until later in the morning. I did my work on auto-pilot all day long and then crashed into bed, two advils in my system to prevent a repeat performance of tap dancers in my skull, and I went to sleep.

Unfortunately, I only got to sleep for half an hour, and Breanna woke up again. She then repeated waking up, I swear to God, every half hour – EVERY HALF HOUR from midnight until the alarm went off at 6:15. Luckily I didn’t have a headache and I was able to get Hayley through her sluggish morning routine, but I felt like the walking dead. I felt so much like a zombie from the lack of sleep that I would have started screaming “braaaains” and chasing people, but I didn’t have enough energy. I’m a zombie that ran straight into a wall.

Auto-pilot kicked in again, and as I glance at my work to-do list, I see that everything I absolutely had to do has been checked off, but I’m not entirely sure how that happened. Maybe I should check everything tomorrow to make sure I wasn’t just typing “lasdkjfaldskjfalf” on everything.

Speaking of work and all, I’m giving away a $50 eco-friendly scarf over on PittWatch, you can go enter to win it here.

I’m heading to bed in less than ten minutes, before 11 pm which is practically unheard of for me. I just can’t stay up late and I am crossing every finger and toe that Breanna will sleep tonight. She has a cold and molars bugging her all at the same time so I know it’s not her fault – it’s not like she woke up and just decided to be contrary, but at 3 am, it’s hard to keep from hissing at your child to go.to.sleep.right.flippin’.NOW.

I just need the sleep more than usual because tomorrow George and I are going to Toys R Us to get the kids all their Christmas presents. Yes, Toys R Us. Pray for me.

But we can get all their main gifts there at the best price compared to the other stores, so it’s hard to resist. We’re getting this for both of them (it comes with one of the Barbies, we’ll get the other one separately). Then they’re both getting one of these in different colors from the guy in the red suit because that’s all they’ve asked for.

Breanna is getting this or one like it because that kid wants to take pictures so badly it’s not even funny. She asks to use my point and shoot more than Hayley ever did, I think it’s genetic.

Speaking of genetic, being that Hayley wants to be musically inclined like George, we’re going to get her something like this which should make her very happy.

I’m not sure what they’re going to give each other, though I think Hayley may get a Wall-E doll from Breanna and maybe Breanna can get a doll from the Mickey Mouse group (she has Mickey but she also likes Donald and Goofy). We’ll see what inspires us when we get there.

I’m hoping to go fairly early in the morning while most people are still at work so that we can avoid too many crowds.

Wish me luck because God knows that as much as I love to GIVE presents, I truly hate to actually SHOP for them!

(With all those links, it’s a shame that Toys R Us doesn’t have an affiliate program!)