I have cared for now 3yr old mindee for 14 months, she did 18 hours per week over 3 days (days vary as mum on rota system so kept all 5 days open for her, so basically takes up a full time place) but 2 months ago mum lost her job but wanted to keep mindees place open so we agreed that she would come minimum of 8 hours per week and review situation in 8 weeks if mum still not found a job (dad has a good job so paying for just 8 hours a week no problem).
Mindee has been coming 8-12 hours per week but her mum has always been very disorganised and I usually have to ring her on a sunday to find out which days mindee is coming so I can plan the week (even had to do this when mum was working as 90% of the time she never wrote her rota down), but I am fed up with having to do this so 4 weeks ago I decided that it's not up to me to chase after her, week 1 she rung me Wednesday evening asking if mindee can come thurs and fri, week 2 she rang thurs morning asking if mindee can come that day and fri, week 3 (last week) she never contacted me at all and mindee never came, week 4 (this week) she still hasn't rang and so don't know what's going on. This isn't the first time she has done this, in January mum went into hospital for an operation and the first I knew of it was when mindee didn't turn up on the monday morning and when I sent her a text to see where she was she text back saying mindee not coming cos she was off work for 2 weeks (used her 2 week holiday up for this year)
I can't afford to keep on like this so have decided that if she doesn't contact me this week I am going to give her 4 weeks notice.
I am not very assertive when it comes to money/parents etc, so not sure if I am doing the right thing, what do you other very organised/assertive cminders think?
I love having mindee, they are lovely and a real chatterbox and very good company and gets on really well with other mindess but I am losing money.