Guess it depends on if it is this Friday as in today or next Friday.

If today then you really can't do anything till at least tomorrow. At that point you can send her a reminder that you were holding the space until Friday for her to make a decision but that if she isn't interested you need to move on and continue to interview. Please let me know where you are in the interviewing process. Do you have any additional questions about my daycare program?

That should at least get some kind of a response even if it is sorry we haven't made up our minds or it gets a well we think we will go with the lady that lives closer to us - as in she never intended to bother getting back to you if they went with someone else.

This is always the russian roulette game where we hold out for just the right child and risk losing them all or we take the first one that comes along and kick ourselves for not waiting for the right child to come along. Always a guessing game.

Summer tends to be a flexible time with kids on vacation and easier weeks sometimes so another thing to consider is what will the ages be for September and how does the older child fit in. Other dangers to think about is when is mom planning a second pregnancy as in will child be there and for how long, will you have several leaving for school all the same time and would it be better to spread out the ages a bit more realizing a year old now is 18 months by fall.