Almost time to go

As I sit and write this on our living room floor I am struck by the fact that this is probably the last Saturday I will sit in our living room.  We have four more days of living in our home, then one night with friends and we fly out of Florence on Thursday morning at 7:00 am.  Our passports came back a couple days ago, that was a process unto itself.  They wanted so many additional documents from us and all the documents Mike had not yet gotten in China......finally done!


Packing was crazy...it has been done for nearly a month now.  We had a great trip to Indiana to visit my sister and her family.....too short.  I have been chief cook, bottle washer and head lawn girl since Mike left....I am not friends with the weed whacker yet, maybe after a few more uses.....Oh, that's right we leave in four days.....no time left to become friends.  My to do list is nearly done, I am glad not to have to write 'yard work' on it again.  Most of what is left to do cannot be done till the day before we go.


Our tenants have been moving stuff in for a couple weeks now...gives the cats something new to sniff since all our furniture is on a slow boat to China.  I want to change the name of my blog.....anyone got any good ideas?


Olivia had friends over last night and she has gone home with one of them today to spend the night there.  I am glad she has gotten together with them, it was challenging to find a day that worked for everyone.  Another friend is coming from Columbia on Tuesday and she will see her too.


I have been locked out of facebook now due to some pop-up glitch so I cannot even post a goodbye at this point.  I am going to have Olivia try to fix it so I might be able to right before we go.  She is my own personal IT department.  We don't know when we will have internet once we get there.  We have to get a VPN........don't know what that is exactly but it is necessary if we want to get past the Great Fire Wall of China.  


Sparkles has taken to sleeping in her carrier, little does she know what that carrier will mean to her in the coming days.  We are pretty sure after the flight she will want nothing to do with it.  The cats have paper work too and I have not heard but can only hope that has gone smoothly as I am running out of steam to handle anymore bumps in the road. 


Our house has passed the air quality tests so we are set to move in.  Our air shipment has passed through customs, yahoo!  It will be delivered to the house on Thursday, the day Mike gets back from Switzerland....We get to China Friday afternoon.......Busy Crazy!!


Enough for today.
Zaijin