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!

Aloha friends!

Happy September everyone! Here we are in the start of the “Ber” months and it’s kind of exciting and kind of overwhelming thinking of the holidays coming up.

This week we had some tropical storms pass us by – so it was rainy, windy and humid (yuck). My son also turned 12 on Tuesday so we are going over to his grandparents house today to have a birthday lunch with family. He is in a Kirby (Nintendo game) era so all his gifts from me was Kirby themed like a keyboard, a Nintendo Switch case, a shirt, etc…

His school had an Open House on Friday so we went to check it out and I had fun meeting his teachers and seeing their classrooms. He has an elective class which is a Drones class and I was so impressed with their equipment in there and to learn how kids are learning how to build drones and code. The advanced drone team even competes nationally with high schoolers even though they are a middle school and then even won first place last year! I was like wow…my elective back in the 90’s that I picked was Calligraphy 😆. It was that or like sewing or something – I mean we also had home-ec in 8th where we learned to sew and cook but yeah…DRONES is his elective. He gets Woodshop (this seems to be a classic elective lol – I had woodshop), Video Production and some Nature elective in the next quarters.

Tomorrow is Labor Day here in the USA so it’ll be nice to sleep in!

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

Blog Posts:

• Posts I’ve Written That Give You the Best Glimpse of Me  | TTT | Top Ten Tuesday 8/27/24
• Happy Book Birthday | New Releases | 8/27/24
• WWW Wednesday | 8/28/24
• Guava and Grudges by. Alexis Castellanos | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• First Lines Fridays | 8/30/24
• Truly, Madly, Deeply by. Alexandra Bellefleur | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

Books I Read:

• The Songbird & the Heart of Stone by. Carissa Broadbent
• Truly, Madly, Deeply by. Alexandria Bellefleur

Currently Reading:

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

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

• Sailor Moon Cosmos (Netflix) – my kids and I watched this one and it’s so wild lol…my favorite is one of the Three Lights Guardians and her saying “Gentle Uterus!” as her power 😂 It’s so ridiculous but we have so much fun watching Sailor Moon and I loved Chibi Chibi. Anyway, I WISH my uterus was gentle smh…😆
• Die with a Smile – Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars – on repeat – it’s so good!🥰

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 actually got some reading done, I’m proud of myself lol. It was an easy week, I’m just glad everything is going so well so far for both my kids in school. I cannot believe my son turns 12 on Tuesday and we are at the end of August! Where has the year gone? I’m working on arcs – but saw that most my arcs are fantasy books – so I’m in the search for more romance, maybe some fall vibey stuff and even some holiday romances since that’s coming up.

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

Blog Posts:

• Shadow of Perl by. J. Elle | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Ten Green Book Covers  | TTT | Top Ten Tuesday 8/20/24
• Happy Book Birthday | New Releases | 8/20/24
• WWW Wednesday | 8/21/24
• Powerful by. Lauren Roberts | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• The Monstrous Kind by. Lydia Gregovic | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• First Lines Fridays | 8/23/24

Books I Read:

• The Hunted Heir by. Holly Renee
• The Dagger and the Flame by. Catherine Doyle
• When the World Tips Over by. Jandy Nelson
• The House at Watch Hill by. Karen Marie Moning

Currently Reading:

• Truly, Madly, Deeply by. Alexandria Bellefleur
• Fledgling by. S.K. Ali
• Heir by. Sabaa Tahir

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

• Emily in Paris Season 3, Part 1 – why are they splitting up the series into 2 parts lately?! So strange. I love Emily in Paris, it’s such an escape and it’s always fun.
• Die with a Smile – Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars – on repeat – it’s so good!🥰

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!