Babysitting

Today a neighbor asked me to watch her 4  1/2 year old daughter for 3 hours and take her to school at 1 PM (after I dropped Matteo off at his school at 12:45 PM) so she can go on a class trip with her other child.  Well imagine my surprise when the mother calls me in a panic at 11:30 - saying her third child is sick at school - would I go and pick him up.  Well of course you know I did.  But what was really tender to me is when I took Matteo to school he broke down crying for about 5 minute upset because his friend had been sick at school and was not feeling well.  Oh Matteo is so sensitive - what a Darling, he melts my heart.  And at the end of the night Mommy collapsed in bed from all that running around.