Aloha friends!

My mom had her surgery on Wednesday and it went very well according to the doctor. She’s sore and tired but healing which is the most important thing. She had a problem with getting a room at the hospital after her surgery – it took them a whole day to get her into a room, she was in the recovery room for awhile. Then she got a room and I got to talk to her – I couldn’t visit because my son has a cold and then he stayed home from school because the congestion became that and a sore throat. He’s still kinda dealing with it. But then when I did facetime my mom in the hospital she said her roommate had Covid! They discharged her that afternoon and I’m relieved because I don’t want her having Covid and trying to recover from surgery. Anyway what a week! I’m exhausted.

My husband is flying home this Saturday and will stay for 3 weeks. So that will be nice to have some help around here.

It’s such a busy time because of the holidays and trying to meet up with friends to give them their gifts, the kids and their holiday parties and spirit week and then of course Christmas and New Year’s Eve. Plus my daughter’s birthday…so it’s always chaotic in December. How has December been treating you so far?

I hope all of you had a good week!

Blog Posts:

• #5OnMyTBR: Title Starting with a ‘C’
• Holiday Romance Books | TTT | 12/5/23
• Happy Book Birthday | New Releases | 12/5/23
• WWW Wednesday | 12/6/23
• My Trip to Japan: Part 1
• Her Dark Wings by. Melinda Salisbury | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• My Trip to Japan: Part 2
• To Kill a Shadow by. Katherine Quinn | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• First Lines Fridays | 12/8/23
• Stacking the Shelves | 12/9/23

Books I Read:

Knockout by. Sarah MacLean

A Curse for True Love by. Stephanie Garber

A Festive Feud by. Maren Moore

Currently Reading:

Somewhere in the Deep by. Tanvi Berwah

The Endless War by. Danielle L. Jensen

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

• The Buccaneers (episode 7) on Apple T – filled with so much drama but I like that it’s a period piece kinda show
• 10 Things I Hate About You on Amazon Prime Video – watched it for nostalgia
• Five Nights at Freddy’s (watched it at home with my son)
• The Grinch – because it’s the holidays!

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!

We’ve been home since Tuesday (which was a LONG Tuesday) and jumped back into school (fighting jet lag), doctor appointments, tap and piano classes AND my son has his first piano recital TODAY. 😅 My hubby isn’t coming home soon enough (he flies in on the 16th for 3 weeks) I need help lol!

Now my mom is having surgery on Wednesday to remove her right kidney and ureter (the ureter has cancer) and I hope this removes the cancer from her body but it will be about healing for the next few months. SO…my sister will be taking a month off of work since she lives with my parents. And I’m going to try and help out 3-4 times a week, just to give my sister a break. So it will be a busy December for me but we are hopeful that she will come through this strong and healthy! ❤️🙏🏼 I am glad my hubby will be home for 3 weeks so I can focus on my mom.

I hope I can get some reading down but this will probably be the month I read the least compared to the rest of the year, but some things take precedence like being with loved ones, so it is what it is and I’m not stressed about it since books will always be there. I just need to stay on top off arcs but I don’t have a lot of those, so I think I’m good!

I hope all of you had a good week!

Blog Posts:

• This Cursed Light by. Emily Thiede | ARC Review
• Holiday Romance Books I’ve Read This Year
• Flower and Thorn by. Rati Mehrotra | Book Review
• Goodreads Monday: Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White
• Books Set In Japan | TTT | 11/28/23
• Happy Book Birthday | New Releases | 11/28/23
• WWW Wednesday | 11/29/23
• Monthly Wrap Up | November 2023
• First Lines Fridays | 12/1/23
• Birthstone Book Covers: December – Tanzanite, Zircon and Turquoise

Books I Read:

Her Dark Wings by. Melinda Salisbury

Currently Reading:

Knockout by. Sarah MacLean

A Curse for True Love by. Stephanie Garber

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

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 am finally 99% better! I say 99% because I still sound stuffy but that could just be allergies. I’ve been doing last minute shopping for our trip and making sure I have everything set before we leave on Tuesday. I’m excited but also already exhausted lol…why is going on vacation always so exhausting? Especially when you are the one planning the trip!

I’ve been so busy thinking about the trip that I forgot that Thanksgiving is next week and Black Friday! I guess I’m going to do my Christmas shopping late this year. But I’ll worry about that when I come back. There is just so much to do plus my mom has surgery a week after we come back from our trip.

I hope all of you have a good week and thanks for reading!

Blog Posts:

• Goodreads Monday: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
• Books that I Still Have Not Read  | TTT | 11/14/23
• Happy Book Birthday | New Releases | 11/14/23
• WWW Wednesday | 11/15/23
• BLOG TOUR} Plot Twist by. Erin La Rosa | Book Excerpt

Books I Read:

Iron Flame by. Rebecca Yarros

The Atlas of Us by. Kristin Dwyer

Currently Reading:

Her Dark Wings by. Melinda Salisbury

A Curse for True Love by. Stephanie Garber

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

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!

Okay well this week was better but my coughing got worse so it was another miserable week. My kids had a 4 day weekend but I did manage to go to urgent care after I was just tired of coughing. Apparently I’ve been dealing with allergic rhinitis on top of the virus that I was dealing with and the wildfire smoke made it way worse. So all that post nasal drip from my nose was just aggravating my coughing. The wildfire is out though and the doctor prescribed me some flonase because she said my nasal tissues were just inflamed. So let’s hope this will speed up my recovery before my trip! I feel better already!

I’ve been waiting for copy of the special edition of Fourth Wing and the Iron Flame books from Amazon and both have been delayed. Then I saw on tiktok how so many people were getting misprinted books and that made me cancel my orders, since I wasn’t getting them anytime soon anyway. Oh well, so I bought the Iron Flame ebook instead because I don’t have to wait for that!

I hope all of you have a good week and thanks for reading!

Blog Posts:

• Goodreads Monday: Iron Flame
• Book Titles That Would Make Great Newspaper Headlines   | TTT | 11/7/23
• Happy Book Birthday | New Releases | 11/7/23
• WWW Wednesday | 11/8/23
• Plot Twist by. Erin La Rosa | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Betting on You by. Lynn Painter | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Monthly Wrap Up | October 2023

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Her Dark Wings by. Melinda Salisbury

A Curse for True Love by. Stephanie Garber

The Atlas of Us by. Kristin Dwyer

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

+ Catching Fire, The Mockingjay (Part 1 and 2)

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!

Well, I was sick all week. I got a sore throat on Monday – but got through parent conferences. Tuesday was Halloween and I got through trick or treating but wow right after I was super exhausted and started to cough. I woke up Wednesday with a bad cough, congestion, body aches and chills. I tested negative for covid so I think I had the flu. The body aches and chills stuck around for 2 days and I even lost my voice but the coughing and congestion have been the worse. I barely had a fever but had lots of sweating (but it IS hot here in Hawaii). My birthday was yesterday and I didn’t have energy to celebrate but that’s okay because we leave for Osaka, Japan in 16 days. I’ll celebrate there! My main priority is to get better and get rid of this cough and congestion.

That was my miserable week and I didn’t get much reading done – but I did have fun with my kids on Halloween at least!

I hope all of you have a good week and thanks for reading!

Blog Posts:

• Goodreads Monday: Sword Catcher
• #5OnMyTBR: Witchy Books
• Spooky Book Covers  | TTT | 10/31/23
• Happy Book Birthday | New Releases | 10/31/23
• WWW Wednesday | 11/1/23
• Most Anticipated Book Releases | November 2023
• Artifacts of an Ex by. Jennifer Chen | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Birthstone Book Covers: November – Citrine and Topaz

Books I Read:

Plot Twist by. Erin La Rosa

This Cursed Light by. Emily Thiede

Artifacts of an Ex by. Jennifer Chen

Currently Reading:

Her Dark Wings by. Melinda Salisbury

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

+ The Hunger Games ~ because The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes comes out in theaters soon, and I still need to read the book. But the Olivia Rodrigo song for the movie, “Can’t Catch Me Now” sounds amazing!

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!