HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Maybe that was a little early....as it's only December 31st here, December 30th where most everyone we love is located. Still, Welcome 2014! I hope everyone had an amazing 2013 and we pray that 2014 brings everyone joy.
2013 was an awesome roller coaster for the Sharp Family, over here. Our year in review:
-Abby turned 2
-We're moving to Japan! I don't want to go! My family, my friends...NOOOO!
-We're not going to Japan, no way, no how...YAY!
-We're moving to Japan! This time I'm researching and now I'm excited...beyond excited! This will be an amazing adventure, I'm accepting of this awesome opportunity.
-We're not moving to Japan :( Darn medical clearance.
-Wait, what?! We're moving to Japan! Two months out and you decide to clear us? But but but...you told us no, Air Force! Oh whatever, I'm again excited!
-Scramble time! The amount of things you need to check off in order to move to a foreign country seems like such a larger task when you have such a short time to do it!
-After a long while away from home, we got to go back to Cali on our way to Japan!
-Disneyland with my Grandpa! Disney was always fun growing up. We might as well have worked and lived there we went so much, but it was always more fun when Grandma and Grandpa were with us. You know, to torture on Autopia. Having kids now, I understand this. It's the one time you don't HAVE to ride with your crazy children who cannot drive on a track...no whiplash! It's glorious! You just get to wave with an evil smile as your child whisks the grandparents away for their special car ride of doom.
So the conversation with my Mom went something like this, not verbatim, my memory is not that awesome...
Me: Mom, Grandpa NEEDS to come with us.
Mom: I agree, but I don't think we'll be able to get him to come with us. I've asked him many times before.
Me: I will ask him. He will come.
Mom: Okay, you do that. (Sarcasm filling her voice here, like yeeeah, goood luck!)
Moving on to my next email conversation with my Grandpa, the incredibly shortened version....
Me: Grandpa, we would love for you to come with us to Disneyland.
Grandpa: Okay, sounds fun.
Lesson of the day, always send the grandchildren in on the mission. Parents love their children, but grandparents can't say no to their grandchildren.
Side story - My Grandpa is the man I truly looked up to growing up and the man I still look up to now. When I'd stay a week with my Grandparents during the summer my grandma would set aside a night that we were to go out to eat where she liked but he never said yes to. Her words, "He can't say no to you, so you ask him to go eat at _____. Remember to smile!", then she'd send me in to ask and we'd leave shortly after to the restaurant of her choice (my choice was usually another day) haha. I plan on using this tactic later on in life with my mother. Fool proof.
-13 hours of flying? No problem! My kid were angels! No joke....angels! They played on their tablets (Nabi tablets for the win!) and I sat there reading incredibly inappropriate novels. You know, the ones you angle away from everyone else around you...just in case there's someone looking over your shoulder. No, not 50 Shades of awful writing...yes, there, I said it, let the gasps of shock begin as I'm apparently one of the only women who feels this way.
-New house! New cars! Added friends! New life in Japan!
-Rozzy turned 6!
-Ian and I found that "thing" that further bonds us as a couple...decorating! He builds my vision, I paint and decorate it. Can't ask for much more than that!
^^^ Just a few snippets! It was such a fun and fast paced year!
Our bucket list for 2014 has everything to do with making this house a home!
-Build a new kitchen table
-Redo my Japanese hutch!
-Redo my Japanese buffet table
-Build a coffee table
-Build a castle bed
-Lose weight -Travel around Japan with the girls!
-Paint paint paint the inside of my house
-Get more organized
...and well, that's it. I'm sure I will add to it. Looking at that list I realize just how old I've gotten. Fun times out with the friends....to decorating!
Long story short, happy new year! I can't believe another one has come and gone! Here's to everyone's resolutions sticking!
