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This week’s topic is:
Top Ten Moments of My Summer 2025
Since summer is coming to an end soon, I figure I should look back on my summer!
- My trip to South Korea with my sister! We had so much fun and enjoyed the shopping, the eating, the sight-seeing and our fun tour group. 🫰🏽
2. My hunt for Labubus! I never wanted one, but since I didn’t know what to get my daughter as a souvenir from South Korea I said I’d go to Pop Mart and get her one – but she didn’t really want one either. Well I failed, they were sold out at the Pop Mart I went to and I searched at Haneda Airport when we had a layover in Japan but I was on the wrong side. This obsession to just find one led me to TikTok to learn from Labubu hunters. And I learned good tricks and tips…now I have way too many 😅.
These are my Labubus – yeah that Wings of Fortune is staying pretty in her box! lol…
3. K-Pop Demon Hunters – I saw it on Netflix when it released and said nah, not into watching a kid’s film right now. Then I went on TikTok and I heard one of the songs and said I’m watching it! I asked my kids if they wanted to watch it with me and my son said it looked “cringe”.🙄 I watched it, ALONE, and almost cried at the end. I was like WOW, I love it. I told my son how good it was and he was like ehhh….then two days later, he says, can I watch it? Because he saw something about it on youtube shorts! Oh of course, trust youtube but not your mother’s opinion! LOL…needless to say he loves it and my daughter loves it too. We are obsessed.
4. Sleeping in 😅. The kids loved sleeping in and I did too. Kids had a chill summer going to piano, swim, we hung out at arcades and malls, the pool, just a nice relaxing two months for them.
5. My annual breast MRI scan being unexciting – which is a very good thing! 💃🏻
6. Standing in line at Best Buy with my kids to get the Nintendo Switch 2 on release day! That was a top moment for my kids mostly, but their joy makes my heart happy.
7. Las Vegas trip with my hubby! Our first trip together without the kids, since having kids almost 13 years ago. He hadn’t been to Vegas since the late 1990’s! 👀 I went 3 years ago.We walked some of the strip, but we did use the tram and walked through the connecting hotels. We did not walk at night to see the hotels lit up, we were so tired by night time lol that heat is killer! We ate (food is EXPENSIVE there), we gambled, it was fun!
8. Lady Gaga concert, Las Vegas Night 3! The reason for our Vegas trip in the first place and the show was so good. 🥰 Loved that our hotel, Park MGM, was right next to the arena.
I only have full videos of Paparazzi, Shallow, Die with a Smile and Million Reasons because they were the slow songs. It was taking awhile to upload my Paparazzi video so here are just short clips of two songs. I was dancing while all the upbeat songs were playing, so no long video of it.
9. Not really a top moment but we finally got our house painted – I’m glad it is DONE. But we were kind of trapped in the house while they did it.
10. Had time to hang out with friends this summer, why is it so much harder as an adult to see people? Different schedules and all – but I went to see Alex Warren at the Waikiki Shell with a friend and it had been awhile we went out.
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July 1: Freebie/Throwback (Come up with a topic you’d like to do or go back and do an old topic you missed or just want to do again!)
July 8: Books I’d Like to Re-read (Share either your favorite books that you enjoy re-reading or books that you’d like to read again!) (Submitted by Becky @ Becky’s Book Blog)July 15: Books with Honorifics in the Title (“…an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person’s name, e.g.: Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms., Mx., Sir, Dame, Dr., Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person’s name, as in Mr. President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.” For more info, click here.) (Submitted by Joanne @ Portobello Book Blog)July 22: Books Set in/Take Place During X (Pick a place, time, era, etc. Examples: Books set in Europe/Italy/Australia/Chicago, books set in Regency England, books that take place during the 1900s, books set in imaginary worlds/post-apocalyptic/dystopian worlds, books set on the ocean, books set it castles, books that take place during WW2, etc.)July 29: Beach/Beachy Reads (Share books you’d take to the beach OR books that take place at the beach.)September 2: Books With Occupations in the Title (Submitted by Hopewell’s Public Library of Life)
August 5: Genre freebie (Pick any genre you’d like and build a list around it. You can even narrow the topic if you’d like, such as: thrillers with unreliable narrators, fantasy romance with fae characters, or historical romance with suspense elements.)
August 12: Books Guaranteed to Put an End to Your Book Slump (Which books would you recommend to someone (it’s me, I’m someone) dealing with the dreaded book slump? No book is grabbing their attention or making them excited to sit down and read and they are suffering for it.)
August 19: Books with a High Page Count (Share those doorstop books!)
August 26: Non-bookish Freebie (The sky is the limit here. Make a top ten list on any topic of your choosing, bookish or not!)
September 9: Villains (favorite, best, worst, lovable, creepiest, most evil, etc.)
September 16: Literary/Bookish Candles I’d Make (Pick a book and assign it a fragrance or fragrance combo that would make a nice candle.) (Submitted by Heather @ The Frozen Library)
September 23: Books on My Fall 2025 to-Read List
September 30: Book Covers that Give off Fall Vibes (Or, if you’re not a cover person, share the books in general that feel like Fall.)
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What a packed summer! It sounds like you had a really amazing time everywhere you went. I got a bit obsessed with Labubu as well, and I ended up getting quite a few as well 🤭 But I also got into Hirono and Hacipupu cos their faces were too cute to resist! 🥹
An unexpected busy summer! 😅 My bestie is into Hirono too and I NEED a gummy bear Hacipupu 😭 why is there no restock of it? lol I’m hoping they have a restock sometime soon.
My kid is also obsessed with K-pop movie and songs. Love this post.
It’s so addictive! We just went to see the sing-a-long in the theater and my hubby loved it too. Such a fun movie!
I love this topic so much. Way to highlight great moments! You’ve had an awesome summer. I am still so jealous of Lady Gaga!! haha. We got a Switch 2 to give the little for Christmas!
I didn’t realize I did so much this summer until I made this post and I’m grateful for all of it! I hope you eventually get to see Gaga – it’s such a good show!
I think that happens to a lot of us!! I remember doing this 100 days of happy challenge like 6 years ago. I kind of want to do that again. You posted a photo on insta each day for something that made you happy. It really helped you stop and appreciate it all!
Love that!
What a great summer you had! I spent some time in Korea and would love to go back and visit. Such a great atmosphere there. Vegas heat really is killer. I’ve been there once and remember the humidity at the time was wild. Thunderstorms and heat all at the same time. Glad you created some amazing memories with your loved ones.
I want to go back to Korea also, it was such a short trip – hoping to go back someday! And yes that Vegas heat – UGH. lol