Have them read and mark off the messages every day until the next time you come home. 

 

Then draw a big HEART on the day  you arrive home and keep track of the days you are there by drawing a heart for every day you are NOT AWAY. 

 

When you leave again, you should leave another set of messages for them to read every day on each block of the calendar. 

 

1.                  Buy a bag of your partner’s favorite kind of chocolate kisses and put them in a drawer, box, container or bag.

 

You can decorate the container with lips or hearts.  Give them one kiss to open and eat for each day you will be gone! 

 

If you want to be really creative, you can cut little slips of paper to staple or tape to the end of the little paper sticking out of the wrapper. 

 

On each tiny slip of paper write a love message, or if you are female, put a lipstick kiss, or just draw a heart or something else for them to find when they open the kiss.

 

2.                  Send flowers or a card or something else you know will please your partner.  Send it to their office or home as you wish.

 

Many people like to receive gifts and mementos at work because they want to keep the object there to remind them of you when they don’t get to see you all the time and they like to show their co-workers that their fiancé, boyfriend, girlfriend or spouse is thoughtful!

 

3.                  Buy a deck of cards at the drug store or discount store – the large decks are great because they have a bigger face on which to write.

 

Write one message on each card face and every day you can mail a card to your partner until the deck is complete. 

 

When you are finished mailing every card in the deck, mail the box in which the cards came and write a message to put inside the box. 

 

Tell your partner to keep the deck and whenever they are feeling lonely and miss you, they can pull out a card and read your message. 

 

Maybe they can even play the number of the card in the lottery!