Weekly Wrap Up | 6/19/22

Aloha friends!

Nothing new happened this week – got some errands and organizing done. We have a wasp situation at our house – my mom got stung about 3 weeks ago while trying to remove her sweet potato plant in my backyard (they don’t live with me, but we have a big backyard so they like to plant stuff in it lol).

I’ve lived in this house for almost 8 years now and usually summer time means a wasp here and there. No one has ever gotten stung until now. We have mud wasps that build these little mud tunnels around our front door and back door…and if we did have a wasp build a comb – it’s one wasp, on a very small comb. But this year we had a big one wasp comb above our balcony which just got sprayed. But my dad also found they are living near the sweet potato plant in the ground, which he just removed. So I hope they stay away now? But they seem to be flying all over my backyard now – UGH. Can they just please go away? Hopefully they decide to build their comb somewhere else. 🥴 Animals sure do love my house! First it was a huge bird nest under our solar panel and now this…😅.

Today is Father’s Day and I wanted to treat my husband to a buffet brunch but the restaurant was booked up until July 3rd! So that’s when we will celebrate Father’s Day and his very very belated birthday. I hope you guys have a nice time celebrating Father’s Day!

How was your week?

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Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I Watched:

Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey (Netflix) – every time I hear testimonies about the FLDS it reminds me when it was happening in real time on the news and how disgusted I was with the marrying of very young girls. So glad they can share their experiences but what a toll that community took on people on their lives.
Hustle (Netflix) – such a good sports movie. It’s a basketball movie and honestly the last time I loved basketball was when I was young because Michael Jordan and the Bulls were so dominant. That was the only time I loved basketball. But this Adam Sandler movie is good, tense, and inspirational!
Halftime (Netflix) – this came out right after Hustle and I just let it play since I was blogging plus I love J.Lo – her music makes me dance and I wish I had her body! Also I grew up with her when she was a dancer on In Living Color and then she played Selena. She’s come a long way, such an icon!

Games I Played:

My Singing Monsters

Music I Listened To:

Stranger Things 4 Soundtrack – so good and nostalgic, reminds me of my childhood.

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!

💖 ~ Yolanda

Weekly Wrap Up | 6/13/22

Aloha friends!

Another week has passed and the deeper into summer we get! My husband and I are recovered from Covid – so that means I’ve been trying to keep my kiddos entertained this summer break. Going out means spending money (usually) and with everything at a high cost, we’ve been home or doing stuff like going to the pool.

I have been catching up on reading, which is nice though. I can’t believe if we had gone on our east coast trip, we would still be there! It’s been a long unexpected 2 weeks

How was your week?

Blog Posts:

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I Watched:

Games I Played:

My Singing Monsters

Music I 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!

💖 ~ Yolanda

Weekly Wrap Up | 6/5/22

Aloha friends!

Today I was supposed to be in Philadelphia and attending my husband’s friend’s wedding. I am not there. We are not there because I got covid from my Vegas trip last weekend.

But speaking of Vegas…

We stayed at the Park MGM which was nice because it’s smoke-free, I have enough allergies to deal with already. I felt like such a newb everywhere because so many things are digital and I thought I was pretty up to par on my tech skills. But here is my friend using her apple wallet for everything lol…and I don’t even trust putting my cards on a phone.

The hotel rooms were nice, but I wished it had a mini-fridge because we were drinking so much water. It’s so important to hydrate when traveling. Eataly fronts the hotel which is nice, we got some dessert there. Usually it was so packed though so I never really got a meal there. We ate at a few places near the hotel. We tried to go further than our hotel but it was so hot in the day and honestly we were just tired from walking so much in the hotel itself. Plus, even though I loved the bed and pillows, I could not sleep – maybe because I was in a new place? Or jet lag?

The Silk Sonic concert was amazing! The crowd was grooving to everything and Bruno Mars and Anderson Paak are such hams on stage! They crack me up with being so extra – I used to think Andy’s wig was not it, but it puts him into his Silk Sonic persona and now I love it. They vibe so well together and sing….SING?! They can SING. The harmonies, the dance movies, the remixes to the songs…they are just on another level. I wish the whole world could see it – like make it a tv special like Bruno did for the 24K album at the Apollo Theater? I want to see it again. There was a moment in the concert when they sang Love’s Train and I swear every person in the crowd was grooving – that music just makes you move. The whole stage set was a 70’s vibe, the lights, costumes, just everything was so well put.

I had the best time and I had the mental break I needed. I love my family but wow was it nice not to wash dishes or do laundry and just have fun! Now if only covid would stop hindering my plans so I can do more traveling. Yes on the flight home my nose started to run and my throat started to itch. Got home and tested right away but after 15 minutes the result was negative! Woke up coughing a lot – took another test and that one was totally positive. So my week was sleep, sleep, sleep – texting everyone, drink lots of water, and chamomile tea with honey, watch my kids stay 6 feet away from me. My dog cuddled me everyday- he knows something is wrong with me. Bless his heart. 🥺 My hubby’s birthday was on Monday and all I did was sleep and he bought himself a birthday cake. We were supposed to fly to Philly and New York for 2 weeks but we had to reschedule which means he misses his friend’s wedding. SIGH. I feel awful. He did reschedule the trip for November though so we shall try again and at least the kids will see the changing leaves – they have never experienced Autumn.

My covid week was filled with LOTS of sleeping, a runny nose, a slight headache due to sinus congestion, and coughing – not a lot of coughing but enough to get some phlegm out. I also managed to binge Stranger Things 4 – but I did sleep a lot. Now my hubby has covid and I’m taking care of the kids and got to cleaning the house, which made me feel lots better.

Blog Posts:

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I Watched:

Stranger Things 4 (Netflix) – so spooky, gruesome, nostalgic but fun lol it reminds me of so many 80’s movies combined like The Goonies and so many more.

Games I Played:

I played slot machines in the Casinos!! lol does that count? My friend liked the electric roulette machine. I liked the Quick Hit slots machines. My parents gave me money to gamble and I pretty much made it all back so I broke even. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Music I Listened To:

Silk Sonic – the show was AMAZING. Wish I could see it again!

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!

💖 ~ Yolanda

Weekly Wrap Up | 5/22/22

Aloha friends!

I managed to finish a few books this week! More than last week at least. So my week was pretty mild. Now this Friday I’ll be on a plane to Las Vegas and seeing Silk Sonic in concert on Saturday night. My bestie and I plan to do a little gambling, get a massage, eat, dance, sleep and then hop back on a plane to Hawaii on Sunday. 😅 I’m so excited! This is my first trip in 10 years and my first weekend away from my kids ever. After Las Vegas, I come home for 2 days- unwind as best I can, do laundry, clean the house, do last minute shopping and then hop on a plane to Philadelphia. I hope my body can handle all these flights and time changes. And I pray I stay healthy! 🙏🏼

Hope you had a good week and have a nice new week!

Blog Posts:

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I Watched:

Senior Year (Netflix) – it was a bit cringey but I got a few laughs out of it
Bling Empire (Netflix) – oh the DRAMA of the rich lol

Games I Played:

My Singing Monsters (app)
Just Dance – cardio

Music I Listened To:

Silk Sonic – getting in the mood for the concert!💃🏻

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!

💖 ~ Yolanda

Weekly Wrap Up | 5/15/22

Aloha friends!

I still haven’t read much but I am working on a few arcs. My son has 9 days of school left (not counting the weekends) but wow…I can’t believe the school year is coming to an end. He ends early and starts early – first week of August! This time around his sister is joining him and then I’ll have to figure out what to do with my time while they are in school. 🤔 Maybe revive my Etsy shop? We shall see!

Hope you had a good week and have a nice new week!

Blog Posts:

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I Watched:

Games I Played:

My Singing Monsters (app)
Just Dance – cardio
Nintendo Switch Sports

Music I Listened To:

nothing this week

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!

💖 ~ Yolanda

Weekly Wrap Up | 5/8/22

Aloha friends!

I managed to not finish any books this week 😅. I’ve been shopping for our upcoming family trip and I was doing a bunch of cooking or meal prep – trying to eat healthier – more salads and was trying to make my own salad dressing. I was trying recipes from Kat Can Cook on tiktok. I love all the salad dressings I’ve made and even my son wanted a salad. Like WHAT?! Now my daughter and hubby are against any veggies but I was so happy my son wanted try everything I was making. 😍🥰 I did make a pumpkin oatmeal chocolate chip cookie that my kids have been eating so at least my daughter likes pumpkin! She loves avocados and other fruits too but veggies is such a challenge. I worked out a bit more this week too and played Nintendo Switch Sports with my son which is so fun. My daughter gets mad when she loses but hopefully the more she watches us the more she’ll want to try even if she loses. Now my dog gets so scared when my son and I are playing – we are loud…and competitive. 🤣 Anyway, that was my week – it was chill on the reading and blogging front! I may be in a reading slump but I’m not gonna dwell on it lol.

Hope you had a good week and have a nice new week!

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Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I Watched:

Inventing Ana (Netflix) – what a story! Honestly, how she got her lawyer and that reporter and everyone wrapped around her finger….made me want to scream. But I laughed instead because it was so ridiculous how she pulled people in. Anyway, fascinating story!
Along for the Ride (Netflix) – I just remembered why I loved Sarah Dessen books, they are such good coming of age books. In this one, I love how Auden starts opening up and dealing with her parents’ behavior, plus Eli dealing with grief and coming back into the social scene again. And wow do kids still do food fights in school? LOL…because that was such a 90’s thing. There were a few food fights at my high school hence why I avoided eating in the cafeteria! 🤣 Fun times! I think the cast did so well! Auden’s new friends and her step-mom (Kate Bosworth looks amazing) are funny. Auden and Eli are adorable – how many dimples do these kids have between them – like seriously!
Dear Evan Hansen (HBO) – I never read the book, but heard so much about the broadway show and the music. So I saw it was on HBO and decided to watch it. WOW. Love the music, but the storyline made me wary – wasn’t sure if I was in the right mood for it. I had to wonder if I could handle watching it because I knew the fall out from Evan’s lies were going to be bad. And whew I lost it when Evan’s mom started singing. Heartbreaking and bittersweet story, but so brave and amazing. I did come out wishing I knew more about the real Connor.

Games I Played:

My Singing Monsters (app and Switch game)
Just Dance – cardio
Nintendo Switch Sports – with my kids and even my hubby tried bowling (except my son set it to the setting with obstacles in it lol) – it was fun! Here’s my son’s youtube video of playing tennis:

Music I Listened To:

nothing this week

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!

💖 ~ Yolanda

Weekly Wrap Up | 5/2/22

Aloha friends!

It’s May! Can you believe it? I can’t.

I have many friends and family birthdays to celebrate in May, plus my first trip in 10 years! I’m definitely counting down to that. I didn’t get much reading done this week. I feel like I’m in a slump and I’m not sure what I’m in the mood to read. Hopefully I can just chill this week and resume reading tomorrow. I do have some arcs I need to finish up for June. Anyway this is what I did this past week ~

Blog Posts:

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I Watched:

Pride & Prejudice (movie)
Persuasion (movie)
Becoming Jane (movie)

Was I in a Jane Austen mood or what?!

Games I Played:

My Singing Monsters (app and Switch game)
Just Dance – cardio

Music I Listened To:

Camila Cabello – Familia Album

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!

💖 ~ Yolanda

Weekly Wrap Up | 4/24/22

Aloha friends!

Finally, I had a week to relax! I can’t say I read a lot because I was just too tired at night. But I’m glad I got some downtime after such a busy weekend last week. Now just trying to figure out what I need to get for our trip to the East Coast in 6 weeks. Can you believe we are in the last week of April?

How was your week? Hope all of you are staying safe! Have a fabulous week!

Blog Posts This Week:

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I Watched:

Sanditon (ep.5 & ep 6) – can Charlotte please get a happy ending?

Games I Played:

My Singing Monsters
Just Dance – I had to do some cardio.

Music I Listened To:

Camila Cabello – Familia Album

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!

💖 ~ Yolanda

Weekly Wrap Up | 4/18/22

Aloha friends!

What a weekend.

Started off last week Sunday with a Passover Seder meal for the kids at the Jewish Temple they attend for Sunday School. Our official Passover Seder meal took place on Friday – I went minimal with the preparation this year because our Easter Sunday Egg Hunt was taking up the bulk of my preparation. Saturday the kids and I cleaned up the house, hubby’s back was out again so he couldn’t really help, I was exhausted. Sunday was our Egg Hunt party and it was so nice spending it with family again! My daughter had fun with her girl cousins, they are around the same age (3-5). The boys are older ages 9-16 so they were more in their own worlds (on their phones 🙄 lol). Once upon a time years ago it was those group of boys running all over my yard in the Egg Hunt 🥲 – now they are too cool for it or whatever lol.

But honestly, 2 years of not hosting parties at my house and without full caffeine now…I was so tired last night and crashed at 8pm. 😳 My body aches today and I woke up with a headache (I was dehydrated from running around all day yesterday) – had to drink a lot of water this morning to get my headache to go away. But today is a school day, so it’s back to the grind for me son. But this means there is only 6 more weeks of school for him and then my first vacation in 10 years!! And our first real family trip after that to the East Coast. Wow…so many things happening. I hope all of you had a Happy Passover, and Happy Easter if you celebrate.

How was your week? Hope all of you are staying safe! Have a fabulous week!

Blog Posts This Week:

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I Watched:

Games I Played:

My Singing Monsters

Music I Listened To:

Miley Cyrus – Attention (live album)
Camila Cabello – Familia Album

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!

💖 ~ Yolanda

Weekly Wrap Up | 4/10/22

Aloha friends!

Well it seems I’m going to be throwing an Easter Egg hunt next week – so I was busy this weekend trying to plan it. 😅 Do you have any plans for Easter? I also have Passover Seder events to do today for my kids and of course on the official Passover day which is on Friday. So it’s a very busy week! It kinda scares me because this means we are mid-April and my two trips are coming up at the end of May and beginning of June. I hope I can handle all of the events coming up this year!

How was your week? Hope all of you are staying safe! Have a fabulous week!

Blog Posts This Week:

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I Watched:

Sanditon (Season 1 & 2 on Amazon) – I finally finished season 1 and really enjoyed it! Started the second season right after.

Games I Played:

My Singing Monsters

Music I Listened To:

Miley Cyrus – Attention (live album) – on repeat for now.

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!

💖 ~ Yolanda