Hi Dach

My DH goes away for work a lot (for between 7 - 10 days at a time) and earlier this year he went away for about 50 days straight so DS 1 and DS 2 missed him terribly, but particularly DS1.

To help him through it I made a chart with numbers on it for each of the days he was away and each day DS1 put a sticker over the number that correlated with the number of days he had been away so he couold see that it was getting closer to when DH returned. I also had some photos of DH on the chart. We also had some A4 sized photographs laminated of some of the places DH was going to be and DS1 slept with these under his pillow. I also had some gifts that DH had purchsed prior to leaving that I have the boys at differnent times. DH also sent them post cards which was exciting for them to get in the mail.

Even on DH shorter trips we talk about DH all the time and look at photos of where he is and what he is doing.

I find that to help me gert through the time DH is away I break the days up into hourly blocks and write down what we are going to do at the start of the day and cross it off as we do it. It seem to make the day seem much less daunting if it is broken down into little blocks.

Good luck and we are here for you!
Jem