HOLY homecoming prep

Homecoming prep is insane.
I have to say I have never been as psychotic as I was the three or four days before Snookums was set to return home. It doesn't even compare to pre-wedding craziness. It is that intense.
I was drinking the HUGE trenta iced coffees, and by the end of the night I was trying to calm myself with some michelob ultras.
I was a full on mess.
I started my full on "homecoming nesting" around the beginning of August. I literally cleaned EVERYTHING in our house.
I cleaned the ceiling, the walls, the floors, the cabinets, even bleached and scrubbed all the blinds and floorboards.
I was a bleach and swiffer FREAK.
I washed every soft surface or thing made of fabric in our house.
Clothes, towels, rugs, blankets, sheets, I even made a slipcover or two my bitch. (those things are terrible.)
I even went so far as to frantically cutting all the bushes in the landscaping in a skirt and red sunglasses, because
THE BUSHES COULD NOT WAIT.
(photographic proof for husband.)

Skeeter also tried to help, bless his baby heart. But most of the time he ended up just trailing glitter all over the house with his tail.It's the thought that counts though.

I channeled my inner Martha to craft homecoming happy things, my inner June Cleaver to grocery shop and meal plan, and my inner Dr. Phil to calm my psychotic self down.

I got jokingly accused of going "overboard" by fellow Army wives with my homecoming prep.
It was also attributed to my "newlywed" status.
However, if you know me in real life, you KNOW that I tend to go overboard, over decorate, and over cutesify everything.
I always will.
Even 7 deployments and many years of marriage down the road, I'll still overdo it for Snookums,
because he deserves it!
Outside, the main decor was a "welcome home" banner for Snookums from BuildASign.
(check them out if you haven't! FREE homecoming signs for troops! Just pay shipping!)
Yes.
His sign said "Welcome Home Snookums".
He is not just Snookums because of my blog. He is Snookums in real life too! haha.
I hung some star streamers from the porch ceiling, an adorable strand of flag pennants, and some glittery star sun catchers!
The front yard, and the Trooper got a homecoming makeover too!
It felt pretty awesome to hang all of this, knowing that I was hanging it because he was
COMING HOME!

Inside, I went a little "overboard"again, with a huge handmade sign, that took me almost a week to glitter and paint up to my psychotic Martha standards.
I also hung some red white and blue poms from the ceiling and added in some flag pillows to bring it all together!
 Skeeter kept laying on, and messing up my pillows. But he was cute, so he got away with it!
Farmers market flowers were bought and placed! TEDIOUS yarn wreaths were made.
(that is one whole ROLL of yellow yarn. Can we say carpal tunnel?)
All of that work, and planning and "overboard" behavior was made worth it by his reaction when he came home to the house.
HE LOVED IT.
I don't think he stopped smiling for an hour.

There really is NO way to explain to people who have not experienced a homecoming first hand just how nerve wracking and exciting it is, all at the same time!
It's hard work to make everything perfect! And I'm pretty sure my hardwood floors will forever be glittered in red, white and blue.

I like to think that my reaction to all of it was normal.
But then again, I'm not really normal, so I'm not sure. How about y'all? Any fellow military wives understand the psychotic homecoming nesting I'm talking about???