Playdate DCs haven't been picked up. Should I drop them off?

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So a mum from my DCs school asked me to have her two DCs today as her two are the same age/in the same class as my two youngest.
The DCs have been here a couple of times before but usually I arrange this with their dad and he picks them up.
But he is away on business and so their mum asked me to take them today as a favour whilst she is in work.

I've had them since 9 this morning. She was supposed to pick them up at 6:30. I called her at 7 and 7:30 and 8 and 8:15 but she's not replying. I have text her a number of times and nothing.

My DCs should be in bed. Her eldest isn't bothered but her youngest is getting upset saying that she should be in bed. I haven't told them that their mum should have picked them up by now.

Should I go round to theirs? I don't want to worry the DCs if their mum isn't there when we get there. But I would like to know where she is. So would I be unreasonable to go round there?

Actually it's true that if you're not fb friends with someone your messages can automatically go into their junk folder so DH might not have seen your message. I would call his mobile assuming you have it.

I hope all is OK OP.

place marking and hoping the mother is safe and sound and that there is a very reasonable explanation for all of this.

Any news?

Do hope everything will be ok, what a worry.

On a completely selfish note, this thread has my heart in my mouth. I'm 33 weeks pregnant. I absolutely can't go to bed without an update and I've started watching OBEM to pass the time whilst constantly refreshing the page. Come on green!

Really hope that this turns out ok. Something must have happened, surely...?

Gods sakes Notime

Hard to believe anyone could be so brazen lavendar but God I hope that's the case!

The last time I got a Facebook message from someone who wasn't my friend a message popped up saying 'you have a message from Joe bloggs who isn't your friend, do you want to accept it?' The going into a different folder is an old thing.

Hope all is ok.

Hoping kids are safely asleep and not worrying as we are...

Sorry my name

Hope it's good news

Oh god this is a worry. I've just rtft to hope it was resolved :-( hope everything is ok OP.

Please let us know OP

I came back on hoping all was resolved. Fingers crossed there is a good explanation. Or that she's taking the piss, even that would be better than some of the possible alternatives.

Hopefully mum has turned up and op has gone e to bed, totally exhausted after a long day

Hope she turns up soon and she's just been held up somewhere.

I was the mum and I knew I was stuck /delayed whatever but didn't have my friend's no for whatever reason - I think I'd be so frantic re kids that I'd get in touch any way I could, even using 101 myself. If you want to get in touch and are physically able to do so, there's ways to do it. I hope the kids are settling op

Just read through this and was hoping to read that she had returned, hope all is ok x

I hope she turns up was really hoping to read that she was fine by the end

Have you heard anything yet op? What a worry

The police has to be the way to go.

This is awful... Marking a place on this thread.

I don't want to alarm you OP but I did something very similar to this a few years ago when I was v v v very ill.

The things that are screaming at me from your posts are the office bit (whilst not wholly out of the question, but is very rare unless she's the CEO or senior Director etc), the fact that the kids are disturbed as - have other posters also pointed out - that means they are used to a certain routine and loved and cared for. So the just being dumped thing makes no sense, and the having to work on a Sunday thing could just be a cover to buy some time. I did exactly that at a very low point (not that anyone around me would ever have known or did ever know as I hid it very well) and carried on as usual. I maintained that 'act' for over 2 years but then I broke and the depression beat me for a while. I made an excuse for my friend to have my sons (like this lady has with you) as my plan was to kill myself and I knew I couldn't do it if the kids were around. I dropped the kids off and kissed each of them lots and held them really tightly and then I drove off to lots of different chemists as that was the only way I could see I could get enough to work.

I went to a hotel I had booked near the sea miles from home and wote little letters to everyone but then my phone started ringing and ringing from the friend I had left the children with who had realised after speaking to DH that I wasn't working that day. I did not answer but she (& now XH) just kept ringing but I could choose not to answer. But I couldn't ignore a text as it appeared on my screen without my permission, and when I saw it it just crumpled me as she was obviously scared and said she would be cripled forever by guilt if I did this. She asked me where I was and an ambulance and a police car arrived. I felt so stupid - like I was wasting everyone's time but now as I sit here better and well I know I was wasting no-ones time, I was just very very ill.

I hope your friend has now turned up but if she hasn't then please please PLEASE ring 101 as you could be saving her life.