This is actually a pretty good friend, not best friends but I'd ask her to babysit if I needed someone, so I think I'm being a bit unreasonable.
My friend used to work 9-3 at a cafe, so no childcare problems. She applied for a promotion at which means she now starts at 7.30 each morning. After accepting the promotion she asked me if I would mind picking her son up from the cafe on my way to school each morning for a week or two until she trained someone else up to open in the mornings. That was absolutely fine.
Somehow this has turned into her son being dropped off at mine every morning before she starts work. I'm giving him breakfast and taking him to school and I have heard nothing about anyone else being trained to do the cafe opening. It's now 3 months after she started the new job.
I honestly (honestly) don't mind looking after this friend's son, but I mind not knowing how long this is going to go on for and I mind being taken for granted. As I would have agreed to looking after her boy every morning for the entire year if she'd actually asked me, should I just shut up and stop complaining (to myself and you, not to her)?
Or should I say something, try and figure out how long this is going to go on for, ask her to babysit a bit so I feel like the relationship is a bit less one-sided? Would it be unreasonable to ask her to provide breakfast, or milk, or something?
My current plan is to moan about the situation to anyone I can find to listen to me, in the hope that I'll eventually stop being a bitch and just get over it.