Aloha friends!
It’s Christmas so Merry Christmas to those who celebrate and happy holidays to those who don’t – blessings to one and all!
The one thing I dislike about Christmas is the traffic and short tempers/patience of people rushing to do things. I try to avoid going to the malls the two days before Christmas just to avoid being in a stressed out mood. It’s Christmas! We shouldn’t be so stressed out. But it never fails to give me some sort of stress from gift buying, delivering the gifts and trying to meet up with people, etc…but I do love the joy it brings my kids when they see the decorations. It’s winter break so and I got my kids the board game Life for Hanukkah and we have been playing Life (on repeat), Twister (someone else gifted that to my kids for Hanukkah), dreidel because it’s Hanukkah and my daughter can’t pass up trying to win chocolate! And speaking of chocolates…I’ve been getting so much treats and I try to give them away and then I get more treats back. 😅 My hubby isn’t here to help me indulge and I need to watch myself – he told me to just pack it up and send it to him in Okinawa.
He’s settling in fine, his job seems to be soooo much less stressful than the one here. I said he better relish this mental vacation because when he comes back in 2 years he’ll have to get used to the amount of work and the pace of work he did back here in Hawaii. And it’s crazy to think Hawaii as a stressful place to work, but it can be – he literally went from one island to another island just in different countries lol. He face-times us twice a day – and sometimes he gets on Minecraft with the kids (he created a personal server for them to use while he is away so they can be on together), and then he even played Life with the kids today 😅. So they are doing fine. When he starts work and the kids get back to school schedule it will be more difficult to face time but we’ll make it work.
Anyway that was my week – the stress of the holidays! Now it’s time to plan my daughter’s birthday sigh…the money spending never ends for me in November-January! 😩
Are we all ready for the New Year?!
Blog Posts:
- Goodreads Monday: Heartbreaker (Hells Belles, #2) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Happy Book Birthday | New Releases | 12/20/22
- Books I Hope Santa Brings This Year | TTT | 12/20/22
- WWW Wednesday | 12/21/22
- Looking Back on 2022: Books with Twins
- Looking Back on 2022: Series That I Started or Finished
- How the Grump Saved Christmas by. Claire Kingsley | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
- Let’s Talk Bookish: Holiday Books | 12/23/22
- Book Sequels I Want to Read in 2023
I can barely read I’ve been so busy!
Books I Read:
Currently Reading:
Shows/Movies I Watched:
- Emily in Paris – Season 3 (Netflix) – I’m halfway through the season! I’m trying to watch it while on the treadmill.
How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!
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I can only imagine what it’s like there, where so many more people actually celebrate Christmas, when it’s already wild here and it’s mostly just people on vacation and going out to malls and shopping for all the deals. I don’t think I’d survive 😂 Glad to hear that you’re all staying so connected while your hubs is away—it makes me wonder how we used to do it before when FaceTime and WhatsApp wasn’t a thing. I hope you manage to relax a bit more now that the madness of the season is slowly winding down. I can’t believe it’s already almost the new year! Have a wonderful week, Yolanda. 💜
I have 2 more stressful weekends coming up – my family are going to stay at my house for NYE because the fireworks in their neighborhood has kept them awake this whole week and it’s not even NYE yet. My house is insulated so the sounds are much more muffled. So that and my nephew’s bday is New Year’s so I guess that will all be at my house. Then the following weekend a party for my daughter’s 6th bday at my house again. So I gotta clean my house! LOL…