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WOW WOW WOW!! This is so overwhelming. Tea, books, a cookbook, beautiful handmade bookmarks, chocolate covered macadamia nuts, soap, pineapple chapstick, sticky notes and tabs, magnet and some yummy Hawaiian mixes. The card was so nice. Yes, everything arrived safe and sound. So very thoughtful of you to do all of this, thank you. Off to make some yummy tea and look at recipes💕

I ❤️ love getting up early to sit by the Christmas 🎄 tree and read. This is Paradise is amazing. I found it originally looking for books 📚 set in Hawaii. It was on a Goodreads list. Then I saw it again when @DebinHawaii had her #livingaloha giveaway. I happened to have it checked out from the library. Started it and can‘t put it down. We are thinking of taking our family vacation in February to Hawaii.

🎉Congratulations @mjdowens !!!🎉 The NamePickerNinja selected your name as the winner of my #livingaloha giveaway! If you email me (see comment below) I'll get your little box of aloha out to you this week. 🌺❤️A big mahalo to all of you who entered! I wish I could send something to each of you as seeing your posts and photos made me smile which is something I needed. Littens are the best and I'm sending you all some heartfelt virtual aloha.🤗🌺

Feeling lucky this morning as I was given an e-book #ARC for this 7th book in the Bakeshop Mystery cozy series--due out in January. It doesn't have a pic of the cover on the e-book so I pasted one in.😆The titles and covers of this series are always so fun--not to mention that they make me hungry for baked goods.🍪🥐🍰But I'll 'settle' for avocado toast.😋Names are loaded & about to find out the lucky winner of my #livingaloha giveaway, Back soon!

I love a weekend by the lake in one of our great Iowa state parks, reading and loving life.
#livingaloha

✨This is my #livingaloha post for @DebinHawaii #payitforward giveaway.
✨This is the man who raised me (my grandpa) and myself. Unfortunately, I lost him in 2014, but he is my definition of #livingaloha as he was the kindest and most compassionate man I've ever met. It is in his honor and a couple others that I lead the life I do. 💜
✨ Congratulations to Debin! 🎉👏📚

Mahalo to everyone who has shown me how you are #livingaloha. I've loved seeing your pics & posts. My heart is full! 🌺❤️ If you didn't see my Sunday post about my giveaway to #payitforward for all the Litsy love you've shown me or you didn't get a chance to enter yet, you have until tomorrow's random drawing. (Not sure when, probably over 🥑🍞😋so sometime in the AM my time.) 😆I've linked to my original post👇🏻 for the details of how to enter.

This is my YOU-friend, Plum (YOU is a mindfulness/micro-action app with people just as kind as Littens), on the left. She drove an hour to come and help me organize our books and DVDs which the movers had put on the shelves willy-nilly (backwards m, upside-down and totally out of order -arrgh!)!! She was one of the first people to come to visit and her generosity of spirit is truly a #livingaloha!

A generous #giveaway for amazing milestones by

Thanks for the fantastic giveaway, @DebinHawaii ! I chose this picture to represent my #livingaloha because it unites my little family with being out in nature and enjoying the moment. ❤️

The wonderful @DebinHawaii is hosting a giveaway for hitting two major Litsy milestones. Congratulations, Deb!

This is part of my #livingaloha - family, friends, books, Litsy.