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[quote=Anonymous]Op here,

So since my last post I haven’t asked anything of the au pair. When I found out Thursday that I’d have Friday off, I wrote her and said “I found out I have tomorrow off. Would the kids like to come over here to play tomorrow? Or if you’d like to do something together (since that’s what she said she wanted) that is good too.” She replied that they had morning plans and would let us know about the afternoon. So I took my older DD out for the morning. Usually I would text a friend in the afternoon saying “we’re back in case you’re free” but I didn’t text au pair and she didn’t text me.

This morning she wrote and asked if Larla would like a ride to camp with them. I wrote back “thanks for the offer! We’re all set to drive her and I can’t really help with drop offs and pickups because I don’t think all the booster seats will fit in our car.”

She replied “it would be no problem. We’re leaving at 8:30”

So I wrote “another day that sounds fun! Today she’s wrapping up breakfast.” And the au pair wrote “would 8:40 be better? Feel free to drop her off!”

At that point I felt it was truly an offer with no pressure. I went over and the kids were so excited to ride together. The draw back is I then felt I needed to offer to watch the kids some day / days after camp this week. Camp gets out at 3, while a drop off wouldn’t have made me miss any work. So in some ways it would be easier to either not accept the offer (but it’s kind of weird with neighbors all driving the same way) or not offer a reciprocal option (but that sounds like me taking advantage again.)

Anyway, we’re feeling it out. [/quote]

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