My friend works on a Tuesday and a Friday. She has a 9 month old baby boy and 2 older children that are at school. Yesterday she phoned me and asked me if I would look after her baby today as her childminder phoned yesterday and is ill. I agreed as the family members she would normally ask are all busy, and her husband works Monday-Friday.
She dropped her son off at 8am this morning (picking him up at 5). It turns out that her husband has a day of annual leave today and is going to have a "chill out" morning, then has a doctors appointment at 1.30pm, that is why they needed me to have their son today.
I am quite annoyed really; if he is on annual leave surely he should have looked after their DC today. They live very locally so he could easily have dropped the baby here for his doctors appointment. I don't see why I should have to look after a baby (in addition to my 1 year old) from 8-5 just so he can have a day relaxing. I mean, we'd all like a childfree day to relax wouldn't we?
Their DS is very cute but is very demanding and I've literally had to hold him from the minute they arrived or he screams, so not easy babysitting by any means.
AIBU?