Aloha friends!

How is everyone doing? Well, here we are in October!

The place where my son takes piano lessons, the Kroc Center Hawaii, had a Kroctoberfest and so I thought to take both my kids since I was going there with my son anyway. We actually went right at the time the event started and even found parking woohoo…and we got to enjoy some fun and games, but my daughter’s favorite was the butterfly tent. She got 2 butterflies on one stick – bugs love her and she loves them back!

The kids have a break from Sunday school today which is nice and I wasn’t planning on driving all the way into town but I told my daughter I’d bring her to Dave & Busters because she doesn’t remember the last time we did go (4 years ago LOL…and okay she was 3 years old). Also I told her there is this place that has crepes at the mall in town and now she wants to try it. So I guess we are going to have some fun in town today!

Tomorrow is Fall Break for my kiddos – we made it! 😅 Time to sleep in, maybe catch a movie (The Wild Robot), and just relax sigh…we totally deserve this break!

Anyway, I hope you all have a nice week!

Blog Posts:

• Goodreads Monday: Deja Brew by. Celestine Martin
• Books I Read/Avoided Because of the Hype | TTT | Top Ten Tuesday | 10/1/24
• New Book Releases This Week | 10/1/24
• Fangs for Nothing by. Steffanie Holmes | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• WWW Wednesday | 10/2/24
• The Wild Huntress by. Emily Lloyd-Jones | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Birthstone Book Covers: October – Opal | Tourmaline
• Most Anticipated Book Releases | October 2024
• Storm of Ink and Blood by. Nisha J. Tuli | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

Books I Read:

• Eleven Houses by. Colleen Oakes
• Love & Lattes by. Beth Reekles
• Better Than Revenge by. Kasie West
• Reckless by. Lauren Roberts

Currently Reading:

• The Games Gods Play by. Abigail Owen
• Wisteria by. Adalyn Grace
• The Whispering Night by. Susan Dennard
• Stranger Skies by. Pascale Lacelle
• Darkly by. Marisha Pessl

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

• Football

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!

Aloha friends!

Here we are, the last few days of September and it is October in 2 days. Are we ready for Halloween? I think I will be once my kids have fall break which is NEXT WEEK! 🥳 You don’t understand how I need this break – they need the break but I mean, I do too. I’ve been driving all over the place, feeling the whole single-parent life (hubby comes back in December) on level 10 it seems this whole month. I’m like a train that keeps on chugging but I need to take a little break soon, so fall break is going to be divine. My kids wants to watch The Wild Robot, so we have a movie date planned. It’s still hot here so maybe we will go to the beach. And best of all we just get to sleep in. I really, really, REALLY can’t wait.

This past week was just filled with a booked weekend, doctor appointments, and my daughter’s school carnival (which is like walking around in a sauna). My son is practicing his Winter recital piece so even though it’s fall, I am hearing Christmas music being played on the piano every night LOL. 🎃🎄

Anyway, I hope you all have a nice week!

Blog Posts:

• Heir by. Sabaa Tahir | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Goodreads Monday: The Fate of Magic by. Sara Raasch and Beth Revis
• New Book Releases This Week | 9/24/24
• Books on My Fall 2024 To-Read List | TTT | Top Ten Tuesday | 9/24/24
• WWW Wednesday | 9/25/24
• Dishonestly Yours By. Krista & Becca Ritchie | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

Books I Read:

• Eleven Houses by. Colleen Oakes

Currently Reading:

• The Games Gods Play by. Abigail Owen
• Love & Lattes by. Beth Reekles
• Wisteria by. Adalyn Grace
• Fangs for Nothing by. Stefanie Holmes

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

• Football

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!

Aloha friends!

My kids had a 4 day school week, but we did have to go to their annual doctor appointment on their day off and get a flu shot. So it wasn’t all fun, but at least they had a day off of school and we got to meet up with a college buddy of mine who was stopping over in Hawaii from a trip to Japan! It was so much fun to see her again and catch up.

Fall break is in 2 weeks – but that means we are almost in October folks! 🤯 And that means the holidays are here and I am not ready. I should do my Xmas shopping now (which I saw every year and never follow through)…but can you believe how fast this year went by? I can’t!

Anyway, I hope you all have a nice week!

Blog Posts:

• The Dagger and the Flame by. Catherine Doyle | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Goodreads Monday: The Whispering Night by. Susan Dennard
• New Book Releases This Week | 9/17/24
• Books That Take Place In A School | TTT | Top Ten Tuesday 9/17/24
• WWW Wednesday | 9/18/24
• The House at Watch Hill by. Karen Marie Moning | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• First Lines Fridays – Can You Guess What Book? | 9/20/24
• Deja Brew by. Celestine Martin | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Books I Read:

• Storm of Ink and Blood by. Nisha J. Tuli
• Zodiac Rising by. Katie Zhao

Currently Reading:

• The Games Gods Play by. Abigail Owen
• Love & Lattes by. Beth Reekles
• Wisteria by. Adalyn Grace
• Fangs for Nothing by. Stefanie Holmes

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

• Some football

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!

Aloha friends!

I’m tired. It’s 6 weeks into the school session and my kiddos just started Sunday school so that’s added to their schedule also which means a lot of driving and that exhausts me. 😅 It doesn’t help that the weather is hot also. 🥵 We are counting down the days until Fall Break.

I did manage to get some self-care and got a 30 minute massage, where the therapist worked on my neck and back. It was much needed but a painful recovery because it was a deep massage, so I wasn’t feeling so hot the next day and to that my daughter has another cold but it came with pink-eye. Both she and I are much better now but like a said, a break would be so nice.

Anyway, I hope all of you have a good week!

Blog Posts:

• A Fire in the Sky by. Sophie Jordan | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Goodreads Monday: Vilest Things by. Chloe Gong
• New Book Releases This Week | 9/10/24
• Books That Provide a Much-Needed Escape   | TTT | Top Ten Tuesday 9/10/24
• WWW Wednesday | 9/11/24
• Nothing Like the Movies by. Lynn Painter | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• When the World Tips Over by. Jandy Nelson | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• First Lines Fridays – Can You Guess What Book? | 9/13/24
• Stacking the Shelves | 9/14/24

Books I Read:

• It’s Not Me, It’s You by. Alex Light
• The Fate of Magic by. Sara Raasch and Beth Revis

I also did a beta read for a book called A Desert of Bleeding Sand by. Lucia Damisa but I have no cover for it.

Currently Reading:

• Storm of Ink and Blood by. Nisha J. Tuli
• The Games Gods Play by. Abigail Owen
• Love & Lattes by. Beth Reekles
• Wisteria by. Adalyn Grace

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

• Some football
• Emily in Paris Season 4 Part 2 (netflix) – I love when Emily travels and honestly I was rooting for her to be with Alfie (such a cutie) and that looks like a dead end. I don’t want her to go back to Gabriel, it was just so messy with Cami and everything. And I’m actually loving her in Rome with Marcello (another cutie!!! Emily really has had her fun in Europe!) . But what I really love about this series is Mindy and Emily’s friendship – they make me laugh all the time. And Sylvie is AMAZING – I wish I could be like her. I feel like Season 5 (if they have one because you never know with Netflix 🙄) will be the last one and I just don’t want her back with Gabriel. I like them as friends but we’ll see. I’m sure she will but I won’t love it.

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!

Aloha friends!

My son had his birthday lunch at his grandparents’ house last Sunday, and my daughter has been fighting a cold but she’s much, much better now. My son though had a few days this week he was nauseous, had a migraine and I don’t know if it’s just the heat we’ve been experiencing this week or a combination of that and the school work load he has now as a middle schooler. It’s so much more than elementary school and I think he’s starting to see how much more. At least my kids are 5 weeks away from Fall Break already! They are counting down to that.

Other than that it was a fairly mild week and now with their Sunday school back in session today we don’t really get a break. 😓 So here’s to Fall break lol…we are so looking forward to it!

Anyway, I hope all of you have a good week!

Blog Posts:

• The Thirteenth Child by. Erin A. Craig | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Most Anticipated Book Releases | September 2024
• Happy Book Birthday | New Releases | 9/3/24
• Books Involving Food (That are Not Cookbooks)   | TTT | Top Ten Tuesday 9/3/24
• WWW Wednesday | 9/4/24
• The Match by. Sarah Adams | Audiobook Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• Can’t Help Falling in Love by. Sophie Sullivan | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• Reading Monthly Wrap Up for August 2024
• First Lines Fridays – Can You Guess What Book? | 9/6/24
• Birthstone Book Covers: September – Sapphire
• Fear the Flames by. Olivia Rose Darling | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Books I Read:

• The Match by. Sarah Adams (audiobook)
• Heir by. Sabaa Tahir
• Fledgling by. S.K. Ali
• Deja Brew by. Celestine Martin

Currently Reading:

• Storm of Ink and Blood by. Nisha J. Tuli
• The Games Gods Play by. Abigail Owen
• Love & Lattes by. Beth Reekles
• It’s Not Me, It’s You by. Alex Light
• Wisteria by. Adalyn Grace

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

• Football is back! I caught the Chiefs/Ravens and the Eagles/Packers game.
• The Breakfast Club (netflix) – it was on Netflix so I decided to reminisce!

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!