The extra fee will add up quickly and buy you something nice to compensate even if it is pizza for family supper on Fridays to celebrate another week done. Think about it as a mom - kids are just there 24 hours a day. Remember that just because a daycare child is in your home that beyond supervision it doesn't mean you have to be directly working with that child. They can come and may even go right back to sleep or are put in the play yard with toys while you sit and eat your breakfast just like you would have been doing getting ready for the kids coming at 7. In other words your day isnt' really changing that much it just has another person in it. When they get older remember that tv makes a great babysitter first thing in the morning while you eat breakfast and check emails nearby too.

On the 11 hour day - just make sure they are paying for the full week as in government workers around here can work an extra hour a day - hence needing 11 hours care instead of 10 but get every other Friday off in which case you should too. That means you get paid the regular rate plus the cost of them coming the day off which of course they will and divide that by 10. The result is the parents paying an extra $5 each day which for $100 a month I don't mind having someone watch me eat breakfast and read the newspaper.