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Weekly Wrap Up | 5/28/23

~ Yolanda @ Past Midnight ~ 2 Comments

Aloha friends!

Well what a week! After my nephew’s graduation my son had a sore throat the next day. I took him to urgent care and sure enough he had strep throat so he was home with me for 3 days. And it was the last week of school, so he did miss two fun events at school but at least he could participate in the pizza party they had on the last day. My daughter was a bit emotional all week, some tears every time I picked her up from school and we talked and she said she’s sad because she’s going to miss Kindergarten. Awww…my son is also sad he is leaving fourth grade because his teacher is his most favorite he’s ever had. I hope they have fun in their next grades and class.

We went to a pool party on Saturday and I have relatives visiting from California so it’s been nice seeing family I haven’t seen in awhile.

Today is my nephew’s graduation party and then that’s it for all the events on my May calendar. On Wednesday we are headed to Okinawa, Japan! So I won’t be blogging for two weeks although I have a lot of pre-written posts that are scheduled while I am gone. I cannot believe we are almost in June…can you believe it?!

I hope all of you have a good week!

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Currently Reading:

I’m listening to When You Wish Upon a Lantern and Carrie Soto is Back as an audiobook. I hope I can get to finish both before my trip but I might now. I feel like I’ve been struggling with The Stolen Throne because I’m not in the mood for it? I’m determined to finish it before my trip in 3 days! But who knows…if not, I’ll pick it up when I come back.

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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!

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Weekly Wrap Up | 5/21/23

~ Yolanda @ Past Midnight ~ 2 Comments

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!

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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!

Weekly Wrap Up | 5/14/23

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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!

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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!

Weekly Wrap Up | 5/7/23

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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!

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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!

Weekly Wrap Up | 4/30/23

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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!

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

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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 | 4/24/23

~ Yolanda @ Past Midnight ~ 2 Comments

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!

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Shows/Movies I Watched:

Coachella Weekend 2: Black Pink, Blink 182, Skrillex

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Weekly Wrap Up | 4/16/23

~ Yolanda @ Past Midnight ~ 4 Comments

Aloha friends!

We got through the week! 😅 Barely. My daughter caught a stomach bug on Thursday, I got my period also (oh fun🙄😓) so I’ve been exhausted. But my weekends are never rest days – so I do look forward to Mondays because that’s my “weekend”. Our dog has his annual vet appointment tomorrow lol…ugh, it will be a challenge – he absolutely hates going to the vet.

I have to drag, coax, beg and bribe him to walk through the front door of the vet’s office. He won’t let anyone cut his nails – I tried every trick (my other dogs didn’t mind it at all). I even try to file them down but he tries to eat the file board EVERY TIME. The peanut butter lick mat trick only worked one time. He has a scratch board but it doesn’t file down all his nails and if he scratches at an angle it will sharpen them to points. My kids and I have the scars to prove it! So I file them flat – but it’s a struggle. So I’m asking the vet techs to try and trim his nails. Hopefully they succeed, I’d like him to have short nails when I leave him with the dog sitter in 6 weeks!

I cant believe our trip to Okinawa, Japan trip is in 6 weeks. That’s how fast the days have gone by.

Anyway, hope you have a good week!

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Black Pink on Coachella (thank you youtube! lol)

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 | 4/9/23

~ Yolanda @ Past Midnight ~ 2 Comments

Aloha friends!

Happy Passover and Happy Easter for those that celebrate! We celebrate both in our house but this year I am not doing an Easter Egg Hunt event because I’m tired lol…my kids will get mini egg hunts at their aunts place and at home. My daughter is gearing up to be in her first ballet recital, which has me stepping into the world of dance moms. And wow – I admire the time and dedication they put in. I know a few dance moms and how am I stressed with my daughter being in one dance for the recital? 😅 I guess I wouldn’t be as stressed if my husband was here to help but my daughter and I are excited about it. They are dancing to “I See the Light” from Tangled, which I adore! It made me want to tear up watching her rehearse in her costume.

Anyway my calendar is filled for April, May and June! Yikes.

So I just gotta get through this week. I hope you all have an amazing week!

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Books I Read:

I had 2 DNF’s which feel like a record for me! lol…But The Last Tale of the Flower Bride was not for me. I love her other works but this one, not so much. And The Book Proposal was too all over the place for me and then there were 2 chapters I didn’t even think was finished? It felt rushed and unfinished and it was the actual dating and steamy scene between the characters. I was like…HUH?! It threw me off too much so I’m not going to review it. I have so many books to read and so little time that I think I’m doing better this year with DNF’ing books that aren’t working for me.

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Shows/Movies I Watched:

The Super Mario Bros. (movie in the theater) – my kids and I LOVED this movie. The music is so good and everything was so nostalgic for me and my son is a gamer so he loved it all. It was my daughter’s first movie in a theater and she had fun with the reclining seats! Jack Black is amazing as Bowser. Watching the movie made me realize wow, I have spent a lot of time playing Mario games lol.

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 | 4/2/23

~ Yolanda @ Past Midnight ~ 2 Comments

Aloha friends!

It’s APRIL. What the….

My kids have only 8 more weeks of school, which means our trip to Okinawa is 8 1/2 weeks away. I got a dog/house sitter (yay!) and I’ve never had one who wasn’t family or a friend so I hope things go well with my dog and the sitter. We’ll be gone for 14 days. Today my kids Sunday school will having a Passover Seder for the kids so we’re doing that today. I don’t even have plans for Easter yet – why is there always too many things to do?

Anyway, I hope you all have a good week ahead!

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I’m trying another audiobook! I’m listening to Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove – hopefully I can complete it.

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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 | 3/26/23

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Aloha friends!

Well here we are ladies and gents – the last week of March. How?! How are we near the Passover and Easter holidays? I feel like we are speeding towards my kids end of school and our Okinawa, Japan trip! This past week was getting back into the groove of my husband not being here again, and getting through the school week. The weather has been HOT here – it’s very humid. I did get some reading done which was nice.

Anyway I hope all of you have a good week ahead!

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Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I Watched:

  • Daisy and the Six (Amazon)
  • The Hunger Games (Netflix)

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!