Today was a great day for George to be home. Yesterday was his last day at work until after Christmas and THANK GOD. Last night Breanna woke up at 11:30 (just when I was ready to sleep, naturally) and by the time I fed her, changed her, and fed her from the other side, it was 1 am when I got her down. I then slept like the dead until 2:30. She was all stuffed up and although I got her down by 3, I didn’t really get back to sleep before she woke again at 3:30. At 4 I located the bulb aspirator which did no good at all. The only way she could sleep was upright so I sat on the couch with a pillow behind my head, and I held her on my shoulder. I did doze but never really slept.

I was exhausted when George and Hayley came out at 7:30 so George sent me to bed. Luckily Breanna’s breathing was better so I laid her down beside me and we both slept until about 10:30. I was so lucky George was home because I would have been useless otherwise. He also washed the dishes and made my lunch so clearly he rocks.

I had a good day with Hayley too. We made hats from coffee filters (thanks Mar!), played on the Disney Princess site (where a little quiz proved that Hayley is indeed Cinderella after all – so why doesn’t she clean anything?!), danced wildly in the living room, watched a Buzz Lightyear cartoon, made supper (hamburger stroganoff), and gave Bree a bath. All that with minimal arguing! She even settled down relatively well at bedtime and sat quietly for a story and went to sleep without driving me insane with ten thousand excuses.

I would be sleeping too but Breanna’s all off with her nose and weird naps so she just now fell asleep on my shoulder post-burp. I think I’ll go put her to bed and see how long it takes my own eyes to close. I need some sleep since I have last-minute shopping to do tomorrow. I hope I get more sleep than last night!