[crazyeight]

So I am 37 weeks pregnant....i babysit another toddler 5 days a week from mid afternoon until about 8. the kid is great. my ds loves having someone to play with and talk to etc. i like it cause i can make extra money without having to leave the house or my son. i make dinner EVERY night for the family (me, dh, ds and the other boy). he and ds play a lot by themselves cause thats just the way i am (hands off parenting of sorts). They LOVE being outside (or at least ds does and the other boy just follows). My ds is sposied and the other boy is CD. Fine with me since its a FB and I had wanted to cd but found i couldn't handle it in this stage of my life. I don't have to worry about washing the other boys either!! Although I know that he needs to be changed around 5 p.m. everyday (easy way for me not to forget as ds i can tell when he needs changed b/c his rear looks different). I totally forgot today. I just didn't remember to do it. Had to turn the sprinklers on, think about dinner, put away groceries, clean up the kitchen, reorganize the fridge so i could FIND dinner (lol...its full...leftovers this weekend!!). Like i said i compeltely forgot. So his mother gets here and asks the normal questions...eat? what? when? how much? poop/scary diapers? um....shoot...i forgot. So its the first time i forget in ages (since i started watching him and trying to get into the rythem of 2 toddlers etc) and after she gets home she finds out that he pooped. I totally feel bad cause i wasn't all checking out his diaper enough to notice but like i said the boys play outside (hello arizona i ain't going outside!!). She decides the best way to handle this is to send me a "nice" but reminding email that i have to remember to change his diaper cause he gets rashes so easily and all that. URGH!!! I mean i told her that i just forgot!! Plus the fact that MY ds got a cold from HER SON and ds was feeling really bad today AND went to bed INCREDIBLY early (very very very usnusual) b/c i am watching her son, cooking etc!!

I feel so pissed off over this little email but I just have to get this off my chest because I feel like everything has to be P-E-R-F-E-C-T down to the wire and I am not and neither is anyone else!!! For Petes sake!!! And to top it all of next week is the last week i am watching him AND its the hardest week of all cause shes working EXTRA hours BY herself so she'll end up being late most of the time!! Have I complained? NNOOOOOo.....have i backed out? anything that would inconvience her? NNNOOOOO. Heck i could not even feed him dinner!!

AHHHHHHH!!! I feel soo pissed!! BTW i did send back a reply saying that its the first time i have forgotten in a long time and that i had alot of other things going on today...i didn't even mention that my own son was ultra cranky and tired.....

Ok....i think i am done...i am going to bed if i can calm down.

 

[LeosMama]

I'm sorry you had such a rough day and are feeling overwhelmed. Maybe she didn't really mean to chastise you, but was upset b/c her son was in pain? I have had a babysitter not change my son's poopy diaper and his rash was so bad that he was screaming when we cleaned him and put him in the tub. I was angry. I can imagine that if that was the case with this other little boy, the mother has a right to be upset with you. I"m sure you're a good care provider and you take wonderful care of her child, sometimes this just happens, but you can't expect her to not be upset.