On the countdown

I have become a little giddy this evening when I weighed all of the bags, which are almost packed and none was over 40 lbs (44 is the limit for us). Yippee! Then I flipped on my MP3 player and one of my favorite Gospel tunes was playing "my storage is empty...and I am available to You". I laughed out loud because at 40 lbs per person plus carry-ons plus backpacks, our storage doesn't look very empty right now! Tomorrow is a day of running errands, and my sister arrives from Michigan to take custody of the minivan. The children are beginning to get wistful about the cats and their routines, as am I -- but realizing that I am spending the upcoming weekend in Beijing is a rather mind-blowing distraction.