it sucks from your perspective, but as previously mentioned, the carer is self employed and she needs to run her "business" as effectively as possible - if she takes on a family with 2 kids she is going to be doing better financially than taking on a single child from one family and then hoping to get another family with a single child to fill the other space. it can be harder to fill single positions, and can also be harder for families with multiple children needing care to actually find care. i know mum hasn't done FDC for a number of years now, but when she was doing it, she was getting calls all the time about specific family structures fitting in due to limiting the number of children in the house at any time (school age/non school age, taking us kids into account blah blah blah)
i would definitely be getting the contact details of some more local carers so that you can cover your bases as well
ETA - posted at same time - yay for the day having a turnaround!
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I bet your DD is so happy with her new daycare..all the best
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