Trucker Kids - Adjustments after taking a trip

Princess comes home today after being gone for almost 2 weeks!  Buddy and I are both extremely excited.  On that note we probably won't be posting much for the rest of the week.  Princess tends to be the harder one to get back into a routine.  But both kids need to get back into a schedule.  Little Buddy is so used to having his sister around that this last week has been especially difficult.  He refuses to eat supper, doesn't really want to go out to play, and doesn't want to go to sleep until 11.  Letting him take care of Princess' lovey has helped some (we didn't want to take the chance of losing it should the luggage get lost on the plane), but we both really miss her.  It's the longest either of us have been away from her.  Princess will be dealing with saying "See you later." to one of her favorite relatives as well as readjusting to a different time zone.  This is one of the difficulties for our trucker kids.  Goodbyes are that much harder because they have had to say goodbye so many times.  Princess can cry about a goodbye for up to a month.  We use charts to help her get a sense of time so she can see when she gets to see various people again.  This really helps a lot.  Unfortunately, the Colonel got to see what some of the goodbyes can really be like when he was home.  It was a shock to him what some of the rougher ones are really like.  It has been a long time since he has actually seen the crying child that doesn't want to eat and tries to stay up until the missed family member comes home.  And honestly, it's not something I really like the Colonel to see or talk to him about when it happens because that would be a huge distraction for him on the road.  I simply find the best ways to help the kids through it as quickly as possible and we move on.  Routine and the charts are our biggest helps.  Will be back to post as soon as we get our kids through the worst of the adjusting.  How do you help your children adjust??