I must be mad ... Oy!

I love that ... oy! Picked that up from my friend A! LOL. So, someone approached me about watching her two children during T'giving break which is week after next. Our kids go to church school and for some reason they get an entire week off. Probably because they don't get some of the other holidays like Vets day (???) and the Jewish holidays off.

Anyhoo, I asked my Friday charge two weeks ago did she want me to watch her dd that week because generally I take her in on days off school. She said no she had family in town so I told the other family I could watch her children (6 and 12). My Friday charge was a no show last week so this evening the mom tells me she would like for me to watch her dd that week as well.

Here's where the OY! comes in LOL! At least one of the three is 12 so she doesn't really need babysitting, just a place to be that's not home alone. It's interesting but a lot of the families I meet at our church school do not leave their youngish children home alone, even though they could. I was a latch key kid by 12 but I also didn't have any younger siblings living with us at that time that my mom had to find a sitter for.

So anyway, it'll be 7 of us all day Monday. The two siblings will only come for a partial day Wed. and Thurs. And in the end I count it as an answer to prayer because that's money that we really need right now. It will really help, especially with Christmas around the corner. I keep forgetting that God tells us in the Bible that we are more important than the sparrows and hears our prayers. I worry incessantly about finances when I probably should let God carry that burden more often. Even this month I took in more than I thought and was able to make a tidy payment on the medical bills. When we were both working it would have been a pittance but considering our current situation, it was a nice payment and for that I'm thankful. It's a nice way to start the Sabbath with a reminder that God is keeping our family in His hands every day.

Thanks be to God.