Just finished talking to a Mother who is just finishing up her mat leave, she asked how much she will owe when the two children start coming. I explained to her that I would give her a little break and charge min. due for the infant and then take 5$ per day off for the second child. (my min is 3 day charge) she has opted to cut her hours at work so daycare could be cheaper, so she wants to bring them 2 days. The charges she will owe are 15$ less than charges for a three day week, I told her if she'd like she could take the three days and her hubby could stay at full time. As it was in order to cut back cost on daycare, he was planning to cut back hours at work. He may not have to for an extra 15$ a week. The kicker is...when I told her how much she would be due each week, she got a surprised look on her face and got real quiet..here's the prob.: when people get that way with me, it makes me feel guilty, like she expected to pay less for care and I feel bad that it's more than she anticipated. It's 35$ a week more than she thought it would be, they are very budgeted and I think she was surprised. I do understand her, but like I explained to her, I was allowing her to take two spaces in my 6 space capacity, and was charging her 140$ a week less than what I would make with 2 kids full time. Now I know what everyone will say, you are crazy for even taking that big of a cut! and that's how I view it, but at the same time I allow her look of surprise to outweigh that knowledge and make my self feel guilty. Talk me out of it please. thanks.