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Weekly Wrap Up | 12/3/23

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!

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Books I Read:

Her Dark Wings by. Melinda Salisbury

Currently Reading:

Knockout by. Sarah MacLean

A Curse for True Love by. Stephanie Garber

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Weekly Wrap Up | 11/19/23

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!

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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

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Weekly Wrap Up | 11/12/23

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!

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    Her Dark Wings by. Melinda Salisbury

    A Curse for True Love by. Stephanie Garber

    The Atlas of Us by. Kristin Dwyer

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

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    Weekly Wrap Up | 11/5/23

    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!

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    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

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    + 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!

    Weekly Wrap Up | 10/29/23

    Aloha friends!

    I felt like my brain wasn’t functioning this week because I was worried about my mom’s procedure to remove her cancer cells. I was so relieved when I saw she was home and doing good but the next day my sister talked to the doctor and he gave her bad news. The camera inserted into her to help scrape off the cancer cells found smaller tumors that the CT Scan missed. So we are devastated but trying to think positive as we consider her options and she has a few but the one we are learning towards involves major surgery. But we want to get ahead of the cancer and eliminate it – that’s the goal and I feel like she’s in the early stages enough that she can beat it. 🙏🏼 So that was on my mind this week and weekend.

    Then of course my son got sick, but I took him to urgent care and it’s not strep throat…or at least not Strep A which is what they test for. Anyway so we had a quiet weekend but a nice surprise last night when my parents came to sleep over. I was thinking they wouldn’t come over this weekend because my mom’s procedure and how she’s still in a little pain, but she’s feeling much better.❤️

    I’m not in a reading slump but my mood is definitely in a slump hence why I haven’t been finishing a lot of books lately. But this weekend is my birthday and the book I’m looking forward to getting the most is Iron Flame!! So I hope my mood improves by then! Just have so much on my mind…sigh…and it’s the holidays, which is stressful enough without dealing with all my loved ones dealing with health issues. 🙁 Anyway I’m trying to get into the mood for my kids because Halloween is on Tuesday!

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

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    + The Nightmare Before Christmas (the sing-along lol)

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    Weekly Wrap Up | 10/22/23

    Aloha friends!

    I didn’t have a busy week but I don’t know where my time went! I think my heart has been heavy with all the things happening around the world. 😔

    Also I am busy planning our Osaka, Japan trip which is in 4 weeks. My mom is having her procedure to remove her cancer (they found it on her ureter) this week so I’ve been thinking about that and wondering if she will be okay to come on the trip. Oh and I’m trying to get back to working out and eat better because my blood pressure was a little bit higher in my last doctor appointment. SO yeah I gotta work on that – self care and all that! That means I’ve been more tired so I think I finished only one book this past week. I’ve been reading slow…

    I’m hoping I get get through more reading this week, but we shall see. Anyway, hope you have a good week!

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    + Baseball – Phillies are still in it!

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    Weekly Wrap Up | 10/15/23

    Aloha friends!

    My kids are on fall break this week – yay! We get to sleep in and just relax.

    I’m hoping I get get through more reading this week, but we shall see. Anyway, hope you have a good week!

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    + Baseball – and I really don’t really watch baseball unless the Phillies are in the playoffs since I try to support my husband’s favorite teams lol

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    Weekly Wrap Up | 10/8/23

    Aloha friends!

    My kids are on fall break this week – yay! We get to sleep in and just relax.

    I’m hoping I get get through more reading this week, but we shall see. Anyway, hope you have a good week!

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    Weekly Wrap Up | 10/1/23

    Aloha friends!

    This last week of September was mentally draining. My best friend who has had juvenile rheumatoid arthritis since she was like 7 just told me she has to have neck surgery (hopefully in October). And then we find out for sure my mom does have cancer but they don’t know where the tumor is yet – she has a CT scan coming up soon and then surgery to remove where the cancer is. We are taking it day by day and hope she is still in the early stages since she has no pain and is relatively healthy except for when she has blood in her urine. So my mental state wasn’t the best this week it was filled with anxiety and worry.

    On top of that my son’s 5th grade class apparently has the worst students! My son is a good kid and all he’s trying to do is get good grades and finish elementary school but his classmates are disruptive to the point the teacher is saying this is the worst class she’s ever had in 20 years of teaching. They even scared off a substitute teacher! This week the vice-principal and counselor came to talk to their classroom as a whole but honestly…do kids not get detention anymore?!

    It’s October and honestly my loved ones dealing with health issues are all going to get procedures done this month so I’m hoping for good news. I’m just praying for good vibes and lots of positive healing headed their way.

    Anyway, hope you have a good week!

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    Weekly Wrap Up | 9/24/23

    Aloha friends!

    We are in the last week of September! Wow!

    So last week I spent worrying about my mom. Her doctor fit her into his schedule on Friday and he took more samples from her, he can see no tumors so we are hoping for good news. Also my dad’s 70th birthday was on Wednesday but we are going over to their house today to celebrate. I’m bringing ice cream cake – yum! It’s still so hot here in Hawaii, but the days are starting to get shorter which signals fall. My kids will have fall break in 2 weeks which is nice but we aren’t doing much during break since we are planning our family vacation during Thanksgiving instead.

    Speaking of our upcoming vacation – I had to buy our Universal Studios Japan tickets and yikes they are expensive. I haven’t brought my kids to any major theme park yet, so this will be their first experience in Japan. Their number one thing is to visit Nintendo World and of course my husband wants to visit Harry Potter world. Me…I’m just there to experience it all since we had to pay so much for it. 😅 I’m trying to plan the rest of the trip – like I definitely want to check out Kyoto and Nara while we are there. I’m also excited it will be fall – I hope we get to see some autumn foliage!

    I can’t say I got much reading done. I was mentally exhausted, but I’m finally getting my motivation back!

    Anyway, hope you have a good week!

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    • Chappell Roan‘s new album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess – such a fun album

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