She is a crier herself about 8 months pregnant and no joke...cries about everything when shes not pregnant! ha ha ...... plus we live in the country and she lives about 15 minutes farther out than us, so I guess it would just put her out to have to find something else to do instead of pick up. I guess!!? it seems in this job no matter what your contracts are or how many times you re-inforce them, someone always seems to have a special circumstance or reason for sliding around the rules or attempting to bend them at their convenience. and for us it seems, just like raising our children, we have to chose when to let it slide and when to make a big deal of it. otherwise I think I would be "getting after" my daycare parents all the time.