Aloha friends!

My oldest nephew graduated from high school yesterday! Woohoo! But it was a long night for me and the kids since the venue was a bit far, a little long and since we live in Hawaii, it is custom to find the graduate and give him leis. Fresh flower leis are so pricey these days and I don’t have a plumeria tree to make my own leis from the flowers so instead I made yarn and ribbon leis. I was making them all last week actually.

I made this eye lash yarn lei which was super easy and you can find lots of tutorials on youtube. His school colors and it’s my alma mater too is Maroon and White. I also tried my hand and making ribbon leis, which I found super relaxing to do. I even taught my mom so she could make a bunch for him also.

Then I made one more lei using this other yarn that reminded me of feathers. Anyway I think he had enough leis. Hawaii goes all out with giving leis. I remember my high school graduation where I could barely see out of the leis around me. 😅 Fun times!

This week is the LAST week of school for public school kids so I am excited, and my kids are excited. Then we have a few parties this weekend, a birthday and a graduation one…then we go on our trip! I’m kind of freaking out, just trying to make sure I have EVERYTHING for the trip. It helps that if I forget anything we are staying with my husband anyway and we can get it there…but I’m just more anxious about making sure things like passports don’t get lost.

I hope all of you have a good week!

Blog Posts:

• The Fourth Wing by. Rebecca Yarros | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• The Mother’s Day Book Tag
• Goodreads Monday: Tilly in Technicolor
• #5OnMyTBR: Friendship
• Things Getting in the Way of Reading (what’s taking up your time right now?)   | TTT | 5/16/23
• Happy Book Birthday | New Releases | 5/16/23
• WWW Wednesday | 5/17/23
• Stranger Danger by. Maren Stoffels | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• 10 Truths and a Dare by. Ashley Elston | Audiobook Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Books I Read:

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Currently Reading:

I’m listening to Tokyo Dreaming as an audiobook.

Shows/Movies I Watched:

• Never Have I Ever – Season 3 (Netflix) – I felt like laughing and this show always makes me giggle. Looking forward to the next season, and I’m sad it will be the last one!
• XO, Kitty (Netflix) – aw I love that Kitty from To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before gets her own show! Kitty was always so quirky and now she’s grown up and moved to Korea to attend the same school as her long-distance boyfriend. It’s like an American K-Drama, and it has so much romance drama – maybe too much of it. I binged it in one day because the episodes are short but I thought it was cute and I’m team enemies to lovers, Kitty and Min Ho. 😅 But I felt so bad for Dae’s storyline – poor guy!

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 Mother’s Day to all who celebrate! For those who find this is a painful holiday, I hope you find some comfort today. ❤️ In summary I hope everyone has a good day today.

I’m going to head to my mom’s for lunch so it will be an easy Mother’s Day. Honestly all I want for a gift is to go to a concert: Beyonce, Taylor Swift or Black Pink…lol…but I know I can’t this year. I can dream…but honestly all I want is to get through May and June so I can maybe relax in July before school starts again in August. I actually got to laze around and do nothing this week. I napped, and read, and just had a very easy week.

Anyway, I hope you had a great week!

Blog Posts:

• All the Dead Lie Down by. Kyrie McCauley | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️💫
• Goodreads Monday: Ever Since
• Books I Recommend to Others the Most  | TTT | 5/9/23
• Happy Book Birthday | New Releases | 5/9/23
• Lightlark by. Alex Aster | Audiobook/Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• The “I’ll Get Around to It Later” Book Tag
• These Infinite Threads by. Tahereh Mafi | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• Monthly Wrap Up | April 2023

Books I Read:

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Currently Reading:

I’m listening to The House in the Cerulean Sea!

Shows/Movies I Watched:

• Queen Charlotte (Netflix) – that ending. 😭💔❤️

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…what a week. My daughter and I were so excited because it was ballet recital week – we’ve been looking forward to this day for a whole month. But my daughter woke up with a fever at the start of this week, then the cough came and then congestion….so….it was ROUGH. But with some warm water/lemon/honey concoction it helped tame her cough down considerably. And vicks on her back at night (she doesn’t like it on her chest), and lots of saline mist daily plus flonase. She still has congestion but it’s not drippy but so she did i – she danced her first ballet recital! I’m so proud of her and proud of my son for sitting through 2 hours of ballet lol. I was a volunteer “mom” and was placed in the dressing room with my daughter along with 27 other girls ages ranging from 4 – maybe preteens? But the biggest groups were the 4-7 year olds. And wow…was in rowdy in there. There was a mat on the floor for them to sit on but they ran, jumped, chased, climbed stacks of chairs, hid under tables, did cartwheels, ran into one another, wrestled…these were ballerinas!! 🤣 Kudos to the moms for making their hair mostly unmovable! I had to fix one ballet bun that got lose…she was the girl wrestling her friend. I’m glad no tights were torn, no sequins were ripped off….but let me tell you – I was exhausted by the end of the show and I was only with these girls for about 3 1/2 hours. There were some tears, 2 breakdowns, 1 girl who just was mostly inconsolable even when her dad came to talk to her and hug her – she refused to go to curtain call. I think it was just too much for her, poor thing. She also was getting into it with the other girl almost having a breakdown – and these girls were in my daughter’s group. Thank god my daughter was chill the whole 3 1/2 hours. She didn’t even whine for my attention, she really was amazing on and off the stage and I’m so proud. ❤️ I was dead tired last night but still had to feed the kiddos and play with the dog. We crashed early but we’re up early because we are going to a breakfast with my sister and family for an early birthday gathering for her. Then the kids have their last day at Sunday School. We are ready for a break.

I guess now that ballet is done for now, it’s on to the next. My nephew’s graduation from high school, end of the school year for everyone, the graduation party and then our trip to Okinawa. I’m hoping we all stay healthy (at least my daughter should be healthy so I have to keep my son and I healthy!).

Anyway, I hope you had a great week!

Blog Posts:

• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo | Audiobook Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Goodreads Monday: Painted Devils
• The First 10 Books I Randomly Grabbed from My Shelf  | TTT | 5/2/23
• Happy Book Birthday | New Releases | 5/2/23
• The Bookshelf Q & A Tag
• WWW Wednesday | 5/3/23
• Seven Rules for Breaking Hearts by. Kristyn J. Miller | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• Most Anticipated Book Releases | May 2023
• Birthstone Book Covers: May – Emerald

Books I Read:

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Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I Watched:

• Queen Charlotte (Netflix) – I’m on the 4th episode and 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!

It was a short week at my kids school, yay! But my son also had to get his baby molars extracted (he wears aligners so they needed it out) but other than that it was nice having a 3 day weekend – which went too fast as always. My daughter’s ballet recital is in one week so we will be busy with that! And there are now officially 26 days until their school year ends and 31 days until our Okinawa trip. Yikes! I’m excited and stressed too.

I hope all of you have a good week!

Blog Posts:

• Goodreads Monday: Unfortunately Yours
• Happy Book Birthday | New Releases | 4/25/23
• Book Titles with Spring in the Title | TTT | 4/25/23
• WWW Wednesday | 4/26/23
• Lying in the Deep by. Diana Urban | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• First Lines Fridays | 4/28/22
• Ever Since by. Alena Bruzas | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by. Taylor Jenkins Reid ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Books I Read:

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Currently Reading:

I got Lightlark and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo as audiobooks.

Shows/Movies I Watched:

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 was so tired on Saturday – my kids had ballet and piano and then another ballet fundraising event for my daughter – plus my parents were at my house. And the weather has been HOT so I was just super tired and forgot to even check my blog and write up my weekly wrap-up.

Anyway hope you all have a good week!

Blog Posts:

• Goodreads Monday: The True Love Experiment
• The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King by. Carissa Broadbent | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• Happy Book Birthday | New Releases | 4/18/23
• My Favorite Things | TTT | 4/18/23
• WWW Wednesday | 4/19/23
• Something Wilder by. Christina Lauren | Audiobook Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• The Last One to Fall by. Gabriella Lepore | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Mexican Gothic by. Silvia Moreno-Garcia | Audiobook Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• The Quarter Year Crisis Book Tag
• Earth Day Book Covers
• Earth Day Books for Kids
• The Song of Achilles by. Madeline Miller | Audiobook Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Books I Read:

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Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I Watched:

Coachella Weekend 2: Black Pink, Blink 182, Skrillex

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!