Curiosity - Parents go with another daycare

[Spixie33]

I have a curiousity issue. Help !!

Last September I corresponded via email with a lady that was looking for daycare for her son for one or two days a week.

It ended up being that we set up an interview and then she cancelled because her mom offered to watch the son when needed instead.

After a month or so I switched bus stops where i would take my brood and I would see her there but not know that she was the one I had corresponded via email with.

One day she asked me whether I was indeed the same person she had emailed with and that is how we realized it

Since then I have talked to her at the bus stop many times about school and our own kids and I have talked and befriended her mom who comes certain mornings to look after the young son and put the older kids on the bus.

Anywho....this morning she mentionned that her youngest son who by now is around 15 months is starting daycare today.

I was kind of taken back because we have been seeing each other and she has seen me out and about with the daycare many times a week and yet she didn't even ask me if I had any openings.

True...my ad currently says that I am not accepting anyone until September so maybe she looked it up and based it on that but the other part of me wonders if she has seen me out with the kids and not been impressed and that is why she didn't even approach me this time now that we know each other. I don't think my daycare has ever been totally out of control or in any kind of dangerous situation or given her any reason to think it was not a good place.

I think I am an above average daycare. I am sure I am not the VERY best because there are some really impressive people who go all out every day with activities, themes and planning etc but I am a happy and good daycare and I have a loose structure we follow. I feel that I do quite a bit with the kids and we try to make a happy and fun/safe day.

Anywho...now I am curious to ask her but thinking it might not be polite. It is not that I am looking for anyone right now but yet I feel slighted. It is crazy. I feel like asking her who she chose and how come she never even asked me but I also don't want to put her in an awkward situation or cause any weirdness when I see her from now on