Friday Favorites {5.11.12}

So, my mom wasn't able to come out this week after all. Womp. Her back has been bothering her lately, but hopefully she'll be able to come out in the next couple of weeks. Also, my dad and stepmom are gonna wait to come out in early June instead of next week because my dad's had some health issues come up (hopefully nothing serious). It actually ended up working out because they had a last minute opening at the sleep clinic (another surgery prerequisite), and since my mom wasn't visiting, I was able to do it. The sleep study was, er, interesting. It's never a good sign when the dude ahead of you comes out of his room and says, "Can I open a window? It smells like dirty pee pee drawers in here!". Luckily, I didn't have that issue, but I did have a major problem getting to sleep, which is kinda weird because I'm usually an asleep-as-soon-as-my-head-hits-the-pillow kind of girl. Wednesday night, however, was just off. Maybe it's because I had like 5468 monitors glued to my head, face and body? Or that I was forced to sleep on my back, which I never do? Whatever it was, it was seriously the worst night of sleep I've had since my stay in the hospital after having Lola. I think I finally dozed off around 2:30am and then woke up around 5am. It was bad (thank baby Jesus for Starbucks!). I'm a just praying they don't come back and say I have to do it over because I didn't sleep for long enough. Because I'm pretty sure I would cry. Like a baby.

On top of all this sleep study hoopla, the kids and I have come down with a cold. Thankfully, after our all-day pajama party yesterday, we're all feeling a bit better. I'm hoping by Monday we'll be back to business as usual. Because I have way too much coming up to be all sick like!

Alright, so here are my favorites from around the web this week...

1. Words to live by, if you ask me! Get the free printable here.

2. Some great tips to creatively organize your space!

3. Get in my mouth, cold Thai noodle salad!

4. Being that I've battled with this myself, I can really relate to this post.

5. Why must I be tempted by these oatmeal cookies?! NOM.

6. Love these weekly parenting ups and downs posts.

7. Check out all the vintage goodness in this pop up shop!

8. Some good suggestions for decorating outdoors.

9. With these tips on hosting a book club, I may just have to start one of my own!

10. A smart list of photos to keep in your phone's photo album.

Have a great weekend, everyone! And if you have a sec, would you mind sparing us a vote? Just click on the link below, then again on the owl to the left. Thanks!