Weekly Wrap Up | 5/15/22

Aloha friends!

I still haven’t read much but I am working on a few arcs. My son has 9 days of school left (not counting the weekends) but wow…I can’t believe the school year is coming to an end. He ends early and starts early – first week of August! This time around his sister is joining him and then I’ll have to figure out what to do with my time while they are in school. 🤔 Maybe revive my Etsy shop? We shall see!

Hope you had a good week and have a nice new week!

Blog Posts:

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I Watched:

Games I Played:

My Singing Monsters (app)
Just Dance – cardio
Nintendo Switch Sports

Music I Listened To:

nothing this week

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!

💖 ~ Yolanda

Weekly Wrap Up | 5/8/22

Aloha friends!

I managed to not finish any books this week 😅. I’ve been shopping for our upcoming family trip and I was doing a bunch of cooking or meal prep – trying to eat healthier – more salads and was trying to make my own salad dressing. I was trying recipes from Kat Can Cook on tiktok. I love all the salad dressings I’ve made and even my son wanted a salad. Like WHAT?! Now my daughter and hubby are against any veggies but I was so happy my son wanted try everything I was making. 😍🥰 I did make a pumpkin oatmeal chocolate chip cookie that my kids have been eating so at least my daughter likes pumpkin! She loves avocados and other fruits too but veggies is such a challenge. I worked out a bit more this week too and played Nintendo Switch Sports with my son which is so fun. My daughter gets mad when she loses but hopefully the more she watches us the more she’ll want to try even if she loses. Now my dog gets so scared when my son and I are playing – we are loud…and competitive. 🤣 Anyway, that was my week – it was chill on the reading and blogging front! I may be in a reading slump but I’m not gonna dwell on it lol.

Hope you had a good week and have a nice new week!

Blog Posts:

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I Watched:

Inventing Ana (Netflix) – what a story! Honestly, how she got her lawyer and that reporter and everyone wrapped around her finger….made me want to scream. But I laughed instead because it was so ridiculous how she pulled people in. Anyway, fascinating story!
Along for the Ride (Netflix) – I just remembered why I loved Sarah Dessen books, they are such good coming of age books. In this one, I love how Auden starts opening up and dealing with her parents’ behavior, plus Eli dealing with grief and coming back into the social scene again. And wow do kids still do food fights in school? LOL…because that was such a 90’s thing. There were a few food fights at my high school hence why I avoided eating in the cafeteria! 🤣 Fun times! I think the cast did so well! Auden’s new friends and her step-mom (Kate Bosworth looks amazing) are funny. Auden and Eli are adorable – how many dimples do these kids have between them – like seriously!
Dear Evan Hansen (HBO) – I never read the book, but heard so much about the broadway show and the music. So I saw it was on HBO and decided to watch it. WOW. Love the music, but the storyline made me wary – wasn’t sure if I was in the right mood for it. I had to wonder if I could handle watching it because I knew the fall out from Evan’s lies were going to be bad. And whew I lost it when Evan’s mom started singing. Heartbreaking and bittersweet story, but so brave and amazing. I did come out wishing I knew more about the real Connor.

Games I Played:

My Singing Monsters (app and Switch game)
Just Dance – cardio
Nintendo Switch Sports – with my kids and even my hubby tried bowling (except my son set it to the setting with obstacles in it lol) – it was fun! Here’s my son’s youtube video of playing tennis:

Music I Listened To:

nothing this week

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!

💖 ~ Yolanda

Weekly Wrap Up | 5/2/22

Aloha friends!

It’s May! Can you believe it? I can’t.

I have many friends and family birthdays to celebrate in May, plus my first trip in 10 years! I’m definitely counting down to that. I didn’t get much reading done this week. I feel like I’m in a slump and I’m not sure what I’m in the mood to read. Hopefully I can just chill this week and resume reading tomorrow. I do have some arcs I need to finish up for June. Anyway this is what I did this past week ~

Blog Posts:

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I Watched:

Pride & Prejudice (movie)
Persuasion (movie)
Becoming Jane (movie)

Was I in a Jane Austen mood or what?!

Games I Played:

My Singing Monsters (app and Switch game)
Just Dance – cardio

Music I Listened To:

Camila Cabello – Familia Album

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!

💖 ~ Yolanda

Weekly Wrap Up | 4/24/22

Aloha friends!

Finally, I had a week to relax! I can’t say I read a lot because I was just too tired at night. But I’m glad I got some downtime after such a busy weekend last week. Now just trying to figure out what I need to get for our trip to the East Coast in 6 weeks. Can you believe we are in the last week of April?

How was your week? Hope all of you are staying safe! Have a fabulous week!

Blog Posts This Week:

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I Watched:

Sanditon (ep.5 & ep 6) – can Charlotte please get a happy ending?

Games I Played:

My Singing Monsters
Just Dance – I had to do some cardio.

Music I Listened To:

Camila Cabello – Familia Album

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!

💖 ~ Yolanda

Weekly Wrap Up | 4/18/22

Aloha friends!

What a weekend.

Started off last week Sunday with a Passover Seder meal for the kids at the Jewish Temple they attend for Sunday School. Our official Passover Seder meal took place on Friday – I went minimal with the preparation this year because our Easter Sunday Egg Hunt was taking up the bulk of my preparation. Saturday the kids and I cleaned up the house, hubby’s back was out again so he couldn’t really help, I was exhausted. Sunday was our Egg Hunt party and it was so nice spending it with family again! My daughter had fun with her girl cousins, they are around the same age (3-5). The boys are older ages 9-16 so they were more in their own worlds (on their phones 🙄 lol). Once upon a time years ago it was those group of boys running all over my yard in the Egg Hunt 🥲 – now they are too cool for it or whatever lol.

But honestly, 2 years of not hosting parties at my house and without full caffeine now…I was so tired last night and crashed at 8pm. 😳 My body aches today and I woke up with a headache (I was dehydrated from running around all day yesterday) – had to drink a lot of water this morning to get my headache to go away. But today is a school day, so it’s back to the grind for me son. But this means there is only 6 more weeks of school for him and then my first vacation in 10 years!! And our first real family trip after that to the East Coast. Wow…so many things happening. I hope all of you had a Happy Passover, and Happy Easter if you celebrate.

How was your week? Hope all of you are staying safe! Have a fabulous week!

Blog Posts This Week:

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I Watched:

Games I Played:

My Singing Monsters

Music I Listened To:

Miley Cyrus – Attention (live album)
Camila Cabello – Familia Album

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!

💖 ~ Yolanda

Weekly Wrap Up | 4/10/22

Aloha friends!

Well it seems I’m going to be throwing an Easter Egg hunt next week – so I was busy this weekend trying to plan it. 😅 Do you have any plans for Easter? I also have Passover Seder events to do today for my kids and of course on the official Passover day which is on Friday. So it’s a very busy week! It kinda scares me because this means we are mid-April and my two trips are coming up at the end of May and beginning of June. I hope I can handle all of the events coming up this year!

How was your week? Hope all of you are staying safe! Have a fabulous week!

Blog Posts This Week:

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I Watched:

Sanditon (Season 1 & 2 on Amazon) – I finally finished season 1 and really enjoyed it! Started the second season right after.

Games I Played:

My Singing Monsters

Music I Listened To:

Miley Cyrus – Attention (live album) – on repeat for now.

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!

💖 ~ Yolanda

Weekly Wrap Up | 4/3/22

Aloha friends!

So this week was a chill week and I managed to read a few books! Also I was obsessing over Anthony and Kate from Bridgerton Season 2 because I just love the two of them. Then what happened with Will Smith and Chris Rock at the Oscars took over my twitter feed…that was wild! Then for some reason, I saw that Miley Cyrus released a Live album and I love live music so much and since Wrecking Ball was in Anthony/Kate’s last episode of Season 2 I thought it was just the universe speaking to me LOL 😅. Decided to listen to the album on Friday and well, I’m obsessed. Love how she has that grit in her voice and she can rock out. That was my week, nothing exciting, except reading some books.

How was your week? Hope all of you are staying safe! Have a fabulous week!

Blog Posts This Week:

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I Watched:

Bridgerton (Season 1 & 2 on Netflix) – I pretty much watched all of it again. Then went back again and watched only Anthony/Kate scenes. I’m obsessed lol.

Games I Played:

My Singing Monsters

Music I Listened To:

Miley Cyrus – Attention (live album) – I love her voice, that grit and power. I wasn’t into her Hannah Montana days except for the song The Climb. And then she went pop and I loved Party in the USA lol…but wow has she really transformed and keeps reinventing herself. I’m here for it. I love how she rocks out.

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!

💖 ~ Yolanda

Weekly Wrap Up | 3/27/22

Aloha friends!

This week went by quick! It did start off with a bad headache but that was due to some sinus/allergies/weather issues plus a crick in my neck from reading. Do you guys ever get that? I always get a sore neck and shoulders if I read too much. My son just got Kirby and the Forgotten Land on the Nintendo Switch and he has been recording his gameplay for his youtube video – and I spent the weekend, editing and uploading them to his channel. So I was trying to schedule blog posts and video posts 😅. It’s been a little exhausting – plus….I binged Bridgerton Season 2 on Netflix and I swear that wasn’t my plan but I just wanted to see the happily ever after but that meant I lost sleep and regretted it the next day LOL.

How was your week? Hope all of you are staying safe! Have a fabulous week!

Blog Posts This Week:

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I’ve Watched:

Good Girls (Season 4 on Netflix) – I finished the whole thing and WHY is there no season 5?! I can’t stand when studios don’t finish off a series…I need closure.
Bridgerton (Season 2 on Netflix) – I wasn’t gonna binge it and what did I do?! I binged it. I regretted it Saturday morning when I only had barely 3 hours of sleep. 😅 But man…I just loved Anthony and Kate antagonizing one another. 😍 And I love Eloise so much, Benedict too (his smiles!). Whoa to Penelope’s villain era and I miss Simon. Now though I loved the slow burn and Anthony’s agony (ugh his need for control broke my heart but I understood him so well…)….I think it had too much of the Featheringtons. I wish there were less of them and more of Kate and Anthony! Overall, I loved it as usual and it even made me cry – wish there were more historical romances like this on tv.

Games I’ve Played:

My Singing Monsters
Animal Crossing – Pocket Camp
Roblox Pet Sim X – for my daughter again

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!

💖 ~ Yolanda

Weekly Wrap Up | 3/20/22

Aloha friends!

Spring Break for my son has come to an end and it went by quick. I can’t believe he’s in the last quarter of 3rd grade! 😩

How was your week? Hope all of you are staying safe! Have a fabulous week!

Blog Posts This Week:

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I’ve Watched:

The news…☹️
Good Girls (Season 4 on Netflix)

Games I’ve Played:

My Singing Monsters
Animal Crossing – Pocket Camp

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!

💖 ~ Yolanda

Weekly Wrap Up | 3/14/22

Aloha friends!

Well you think I would get a break but of course not…we had a toilet leak from an upstairs bathroom and thank god my dad works in construction and knew how to fix the leak. It got fixed…or so we thought and then it leaked again the next day. So we had to wait a few days before he could come out to look at it again. Finally on Saturday he fixed the leak but it involved buying a new toilet. It was tiring, toilets are heavy 😖 but I’m so grateful for my dad for helping us out! Honestly that leak took over my week and I was about to have my period too so it was an exhausted week. My son is on spring break right now so I hope I get a little bit of time to read this week.

How was your week? Hope all of you are staying safe! Have a fabulous week!

Blog Posts This Week:

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I’ve Watched:

The news…☹️

Games I’ve Played:

My Singing Monsters
Wordle
Animal Crossing – Pocket Camp

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!

💖 ~ Yolanda