Needed: Advice!

My hubby left Wednesday for a dental conference and will get back Saturday, be home for a short 10 days before leaving again to spend nearly a month in San Antonio for National Guard officer training.  I think I have most of the logistics worked out in my mind - this week was a good "test" and I figured out that I can get up and get both kids ready and all of us out the door...I even made it to work on time both days!  :) Mornings are certainly a little crazier without Tom here - and seem to involve me telling Micah at least a dozen times to stay out of the toilet while I'm trying to rush through my morning makeup routine.  

The little man seems to be taking it all in stride - he gets up in the morning looking for "dadada" but when I tell him he's not here, he gets it and seems to move on.  My poor girl though, she hasn't faired so well.  She has been a wreck this week!  And I just feel bad for her!  Her behavior hasn't been bad, in fact she's been even better than usual (sharing with her brother SO well this week!!), but we've had lots and lots of tears over daddy being gone.  Each morning this week when she wakes up, her first question is "where's my daddy" - and when I have to tell her that he's still not here (Remember Daddy's in Seattle, but he'll be home in ____ days.) it causes an all out meltdown.  And for the rest of the day every time she's tired or upset about anything else, she's in tears telling me she misses her daddy.  Bless her heart - she is just TOO sweet!  But I really worry about how she's going to fare when daddy is gone for a month.   I'm thinking we need to make something to help her count down the days until daddy gets back - she doesn't have a real good concept of time (we do okay with he'll be home in 3 days...but any more than that and she's asking me, is it 4 days yet, will it be 4 days tomorrow).   If any of you have good ideas for how to help Makenzie manage a month with out her daddy, I would welcome the ideas!!  :)  I think I'll say an extra prayer today that we never have to deal with a deployment!