Aloha friends!

My kids were on fall break and honestly we didn’t do much. I’ve been just trying to make sure my daughter got healthy this week so she can start off Monday on a clean slate, no cold. But I do think she’s dealing with allergies – she has a post nasal drip that causes her to cough. So just trying to deal with that and so far she’s so much better! My son recovered nicely from his sore throat episode and good thing too since their October is packed with school activities.

I did get some reading done which is nice and we did do a family outing nearby to the Kroc Center which held an Kroctober Fest.

Blog Posts:

• Most Anticipated Book Releases | October 2022
• BLOG TOUR} The Empress of Time by. Kylie Lee Baker | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• Happy Book Birthday | New Releases | 10/04/22
• Favorite Bookstores OR Bookstores I’d Love to Visit | TTT | 10/4/22
• The Getaway by. Lamar Giles | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• WWW Wednesday | 10/5/22
• The Christmas Clash by. Suzanne Park | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• A Cat Cafe Christmas by. Codi Gary | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Birthstone Book Covers: October – Opal & Pink Tourmaline
• Bone Weaver by. Aden Polydoros | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️💫
• The Atlas Six by. Olivie Blake | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Let’s Talk Bookish: DNFing Books | 10/7/22

Books I Read:

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Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I Watched:

• House of Dragons (HboMax) – the drama continues

Games I Played:

• My Singing Monsters – mostly to keep up with my kids who love this game
• Splatoon 3 – the connection errors suck but I still play
• Overcooked 2 – because my son begged me to play/help him lol, there was a lot of yelling going on between us

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!

Last week was a hard week for me. My daughter was at the tail end of her flu when my son then got sick AGAIN but this time with a super sore throat that was not flu, strep or covid…I think it was laryngitis. So he was home with me for 3 days. But to top that off I had the worst muscle knot in my neck/shoulder/back….and to top THAT off, my neighbor told me the ambulance we saw last Saturday night was because her husband passed away. The husband that cut the grass 3x a week and I would say hi to him almost daily…really nice guy who was enjoying his retirement. I just saw him last month but he was limping and I was caring for a sick household so I was inside a lot. I had no idea he was sick, though now that I think back 3 months ago he told me he was hard of hearing (that was new) and I saw him limping last month. His wife told me they found out he had glioblastoma brain cancer and they only found out this summer. He was deteriorating so fast and had no clue why until his wife insisted on an MRI. And like that…in a few months without me even knowing he was that ill…he’s gone. 💔🥺

The pain in my shoulder, my son getting sick and the news of my neighbor happened on Monday (pain in my heart). I was done for the week. So I was sad and am still sad every time I look at their house and imagine what they are going through.

I hope my kids get this week to heal their bodies from illnesses going around I know it’s that time of the year but we need a break. I need a break!

Anyway, I hope all of you had a better week than I did! I did manage to read some books at least!

Blog Posts:

• Before I Do by. Sophie Cousens | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Typographic Book Covers | TTT | 9/27/22
• Happy Book Birthday | New Releases | 9/27/22
• WWW Wednesday | 9/28/22
• This Vicious Grace by. Emily Thiede | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Kingdom of the Feared by. Kerri Maniscalco | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Monthly Wrap Up | September 2022
• The Drowned Woods by. Emily Lloyd-Jones | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• Book Covers with Skulls

Books I Read:

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Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I Watched:

• House of Dragons (HboMax) – the drama continues

Games I Played:

• My Singing Monsters – mostly to keep up with my kids who love this game
• Splatoon 3 – the connection errors suck but I still play

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, brought my kids last week to urgent care just to make sure their cough wasn’t anything worst. Dr said their lungs sounded clear and it’s just a cold…well, they went to school on Monday, and my daughter came back home with a 102 fever. SIGH…she’s been sick all of September! So I brought her back to urgent care because I couldn’t for the life of me get through to her pediatrician’s office. Urgent care was so busy with kids that sounded like her 🤦🏻‍♀️ – this time we got another doctor and I told him, she’s been having a fever once a week so he said okay let’s test her for covid (tested her all month and she’s been negative each time), test her for flu and test her for a UTI. She was positive for FLU so she missed another 4 days of school totaling 12 missed days of school already in only the first 2 months of school. 😅

My son is over his cold thank goodness. I’m praying for a better, healthier, no illnesses for the rest of the year. 🙏🏼

Anyway – this whole month stressed me out seeing my kids sick so I feel so much tension in my upper back. It was hurting me all week until I forced myself to stretch it out. I need a massage!

Anyway, I hope you all had a good week!

Blog Posts:

• A Curse of Queens by. Amanda Bouchet | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• The Serpent and the Wings of Night by. Carissa Broadbent | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Books On My Fall 2022 To-Read List | TTT | 9/20/22
• Happy Book Birthday | New Releases | 9/20/22
• The Ballad of Never After by. Stephanie Garber | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• WWW Wednesday | 9/21/22
• Spells For Lost Things by. Jenna Evans Welch | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Foul Lady Fortune by. Chloe Gong | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Let’s Talk Bookish: Reading Seasonally | 9/23/22
• Last, Now, Next Book Tag

Books I Read:

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Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I Watched:

• House of Dragons (HboMax) – the drama continues

Games I Played:

• My Singing Monsters
• Cooking Dash – still grinding!
• Splatoon 3 – I’m obsessed but had to pause a bit because my hands hurt lol

Music I Listened To:

BLACKPINK – finally got a chance to listen to their new album on repeat. I don’t know why but Happiest Girl makes me want to cry. That one is on repeat maybe because I had a hard month lol. Also this song always reminds of that moment in a book…for example a contemporary YA romance where the girl is at her lowest, maybe the guy breaks her heart, etc…and this is the moment she has to stop crying and show her face to the world. You know what I’m talking about lol…that moment in a teen movie where it’s prom and the girl shows up alone or whatever LOL…this song needs to play at that exact moment.

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 were sick most of the week so…I was Nurse mom basically. There was lots of tissues, snot and coughing. 😩 I did get to read some books while I was caring for the kids at least.

We finally got the day of when my husband has to be in Okinawa, Japan for work. Dunno if I mentioned it here, but he applied to a few jobs (he works for the federal government)…because he needed something new. He’s been at his position for the past 10 or 11 years? And he needed just something new and applied to many other jobs here but wasn’t getting offers. He applied to 2 contracts in job contracts in Japan and got both, but chose to go with the one in Okinawa. He has to be there by December 9th SO…it’s going to be a count down starting November. We have our postponed East Coast trip to visit his family mid November, for 2 weeks, then we come back to Hawaii, he does his final packing and will be gone.

I decided not to uproot our life here because we have a house, our dog, kids who just started the school year and it would have been really short notice to move overseas…plus it’s only a 2 year contract. Our plan is just to keep the family chugging along, with daddy long distance and we are already trying to plan a visit or a few visits if we can budget it out. And since I have to go to Okinawa, this will be my time to explore Japan! I’m excited, and somewhat stressed out too that I’ll be living the single-parenting life for a little while, but yeah…it will go by fast. At least I hope it will. Just gotta hold down the fort – as usual lol.

Hope you all had a good week!

Blog Posts:

• Bad Girl Reputation by. Elle Kennedy | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️
• Books with Geographical Terms in the Title | TTT | 9/13/22
• Happy Book Birthday | New Releases | 9/13/22
• WWW Wednesday | 9/14/22
• Seoulmates by. Susan Lee | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• Book Haul | 9/16/22
• Let’s Talk Bookish: Tips for Newbie Bloggers | 9/16/22
• E-Books on Kindle Unlimited or Deals I Found This Week | 9/16/22

Books I Read:

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Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I Watched:

• House of Dragons (HboMax) – the drama continues

Games I Played:

• My Singing Monsters
• Cooking Dash – still grinding!
• Just Dance – for exercise
• Splatoon 3 – I love it, but still hate the communication errors and I’ve been having way more of these than when I used to play Splatoon 2. So is it because they need to fix some things on it? Not sure but I still try and play it. But if I get too many connection errors, I stop.

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 had time to read this week, yay! It was still a long week – my sprinklers by the sidewalk is finally fixed, the tree roots damaged the pipe there. Boo! But I’m just glad it’s fixed. It was a short school week but for some reason felt long to me. Then I had to run around on Saturday with an orthodontist appointment for me son and a pool party for my daughter’s classmate. They were both supposed to have Sunday school today but my daughter is running a low grade fever since we got caught in the rain at the pool party. We were wet…which was fine since we were in the pool, but the cold because the sun was setting by then…so not good. We both got chilled but she’s the one with the fever today. My son woke up with allergies that are making him sniffle and cough (he kind of still has a lingering cough from having covid last month). So yes…sick kids again! lol…it never seems to end. Hope all of you are staying healthy!

Hope you all had a good week!

Blog Posts:

• Soul of the Deep by. Natasha Bowen | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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• Happy Book Birthday | New Releases | 9/6/22
• WWW Wednesday | 9/7/22
• 5..4..3..2..1 Book Tag | 9/8/22
• Birthstone Book Covers: September – Sapphire
• A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by. Laura Taylor Namey | Book Review

Books I Read:

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Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I Watched:

• House of Dragons (Hbo/Max) – the drama continues!

Games I Played:

• My Singing Monsters
• Cooking Dash – still grinding!
• Mario Kart (Nintendo Switch) – played with my son
• Katamari Damacy Reroll (Nintendo Switch) – played with my son and daughter

I really want to play Splatoon 3 though! Hopefully I can get it soon.

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!