What are some methods/ways you integrate yourself back home into your family routines and relationships after deployment?

I would ask the kids what they want to do when I returned from deployment. Foremost, the same activities and adventures we used to do never did change. My spouse had no issue with doing family trips on weekends and we were back in the swing of things within days. Only thing I had to do was to give in some with the new rules in the house for the kids. Kids grew older and a few rules changed some but not too much. Also, you have to remember that she has been tracking bills and other things round the house that may normally been done by yourself. Always good to see if she may have changed payment methods and if she has a tracking method for all payments before you start taking those home duties over again. If you had allotments, then of course, there wouldn't be an issue to begin with. Take it one day at time and you life should be back to the same prior to deployment. All of mine were good with the family.

When I was still in, our daughter (she is our oldest) EXTREMELY independent, take charge, type A personality (hhhmmm wonder where she gets that from?), LOL anyways, whenever I would come back home, we would actually have a mini "change of command" ceremony. This way, she understood Momma Bear is back home and I'm assuming command. The next weekend, she got to decide what the family did for our family day- picnic, beach, etc only requirement it had to be something everybody would enjoy.

After my last deployment with the Pennsylvania National Guard we did a 3 day yellow ribbon program. It was very informative about most things when we returned.