i'm with you, i'm gone 10 hours a day m-f...i HATE it, but at least DH is home most of the time with her and she's only alone like 3 hours a day most of the time, sometimes she has to be alone 8 hours which i hate hate hate doing to her, but he'll work a random shift the same time i do sometimes...she's got all her toys, water, ex pen her crate in there and a bed, she uses her pee pads during that time and she tears everything up and plays in her water dish... i don't think she's missing mommy too much
but yes she comes to the baby gate by the hall way every morning to say hi and good morning mom, and then everything she hears my voice down the hall while i'm talking to mike she comes running to the baby gate to see me....and now she's sitting patiently at the door when i go out to leave for work...what a good little girl she is