The first week he's away is always hard. Anyone else feel the same? I seem to get it together after that. This one seems particularly hard. As he drove off at 1am Monday morning, and I tried to close the garage door, the spring came off the door.... he'd not even gone out of sight and things were breaking. The next morning the car wouldn't start (we have a banger as well, so not the end of the world, but you know a pain to sort it all out, though luckily our village garage is great). The snow, it's started again. The kids wail for him at all hours. Ho hum, I'll feel better next week (and the kids will stop wailing for him).
p.s. he's only away 7 weeks or so, but he's only been back 7 weeks after being away 7 weeks. Read that article that someone posted a link to which said it gets better after 6 weeks... made me smile.