Counting Down DAYS!!!!!

I can't give an exact date for two reasons, one - I don't exactly have an exact date, two - it would be violating OPSEC to give out specific dates. BUT I do have exciting news. I'm all :D :D :D about it! I'm no longer counting down MONTHS until my husband comes home, but counting down DAYS, to make it seem to go faster I'm counting PAYCHECKS or WEEKS. So I'm sure you can imagine the :D across my face. If my camera were working I'd take a picture for you to see. I'm THRILLED!!! I can say that my husband will be coming home eariler than originally scheduled...just not how much earlier. I've known for a while about the estimated date change but today it just smacked me in the face and well, I've turned into a little bit of a nutcase. I keep making lists in my head of all the things I just have to do before he comes home. Which is funny because none of them are actually must do things. I'll share some of my list with you so you can get an idea of how my CDO {like OCD but alphabetically as it should be} mind has been working:

• Recover dining chairs {a project I intended on doing 3 years ago when I bought the table at a yard sale}
• Scrub every surface - window sills, baseboards, light fixtures {I keep a clean house but I don't spring clean weekly}
• Switch Lydia into toddler bed
• Decorate Lydia's room, I found inspiration for some DIM {Do It Myself} projects
• Get Michael a twin mattress for his twin bed, along with bedding to fit
• Purge & reorganize toys in kids' rooms
• Move computer & desk to different wall in living room
• Get a recliner, bench or other seating for living room
• Get trays for my ottomans {so they can hold a glass or whatever}
• Paint canvas to hang on big blank wall in kitchen
• Get rugs for kids' rooms
• Organize laundry/storage room
• Finish Lydia's one year album
• Do more pages in family albums
• Organize our closet & figure out where all of his gear is going

The list could go on but I won't torture you anymore. Most everything on this list can {and probably will} be done after homecoming {army speak for soldiers coming home} but there are some things I'll want to have done beforehand. The most important is tackling our closet. Because I moved after he deployed we've never had ALL of Shawn's clothing, uniforms & gear in our closet. He's got enough that he could easily take up the whole thing. But because I'm not a nudist {you're welcome} I need some space in there too. So I want to go through all of my stuff & organize it better, making the most of the space. Once he's home he's going through his civi {civilian} clothes and tossing what no longer fits/he likes and we'll go from there. Likely Lydia will have a tub or three in her closet with Shawn's gear that isn't used regularly, she has the space so it'll work. I just don't want him coming home & feel that it's not home and there's no space for him.

I also want to get Lydia switched into the toddler bed {planned on doing that earlier in the week}, recover the chairs, tackle the laundry room and scrub every surface. I'm excited, nervous, anxious and thrilled all at once, but mostly ecstatic. It will be an adjustment for both of us and the kids but a GOOD adjustment. And I figure if there's some bumps along the way at least he'll be home to make up with afterward. ;)

I haven't had a chance to scrap this week...hoping for this coming week, that would help me check some stuff off my list right!