Our contract with the CM is quite straightforward - if the dc don't go for any reason, full payment for that day is due. If the CM can't have the dc for any reason, no payment is due. Both have happened in the past and all has been fine, we know where we stand.
Last week, ds2 was ill (just a minor temperature) so I kept him off school. I picked up my phone to text the cm to say the dc wouldn't be with her that night and I'd had a text from her already that morning...saying she was sorry, her ds was ill so she couldn't have the dc.
Now I could have kept schtum, said OK then, and wouldn't have had to pay for the day. But I text back along the lines of ds2 was ill too, was just about to text to tell her, hope her ds is OK etc.
We pay two weeks in arrears so i've just come to make the payment which covers this day. I text the cm and suggested I pay half-rate for this day as neither she nor we were available, so it seemed a reasonable in-the-middle compromise. She text back to say that sorry, my dc weren't available for that day so the full payment was due. I've responded to say that if we went down that road, I could equally say that as she wasn't available either way, no payment was due.
I thought I was being quite fair in offering to pay half tbh as I could have easily got away with not telling her my dc was ill. Nope, she's nicely insisting on full payment. It's very awkward. We've never had any kind of disagreement in two years and dh thinks it's not worth it and we should just pay...it's only £15 more. But it's the principal which is really leaving a sour taste for me.
AIBU?