New information everyday

Just when I think I know what we are doing it gets different.....go figure.  It turns out that they (GE) do not send the kids over on the 'look see' visit.  That means we, as a family, will not be going to China as soon as school gets out, instead Mike and I will go in March for a few days.  It means when we go in July it will be Olivia's first trip and it will be for living...not a visit.  I will scope out the school and get some more pictures for Olivia.  I will also scope out the grocery store.....I know I have to learn to use local ingredients but I will still want to cook old favorites, just hope I can get the ingredients I need.  We will check to see what kitty food they have too...I wonder if I can bring in our own from here.  Soooooooooo many questions!!!  We will  look at houses too, Mike has seen some and they are big, bigger than this one! What on earth we will do with more room is beyond us, he says we will have a puzzle room:)  We plan to look in an area near the school Olivia hopes to go to.  She has applied and we got an email saying they should have an answer by the end of February.  Mike bought her a new bike last weekend to ride to school.  Keep your fingers crossed, this is the school we would really like to see her attend.
The other change of recent days is we are probably not bringing our electrical things.  They run on 50Hz/220 volts and we run on 60Hz/110 volts. That will certainly run havoc with everything.  Sooooo, I said to Mike "What about my sewing machine, I can't live without sewing?"  I guess I will have to get a new one for over there, my poor Bernina, left behind:(
Best news of all we are moving closer to getting someone to live in the house while we are gone, yipee!!  A major worry and it is near to solving.
Still cannot figure out the picture thing, working on that:)