Two steps forward and four steps back. Do you ever feel like that? Yeah, me too. I was just grasping the concept that things were starting to look up. My work situation was solved by me having to work three 3p-11pm shifts through the week and one 7p-7am shift on Saturday nights. This patient is very young and stable in his diagnosies, so this case assignment should last for some time. Not so good for spending time with my children since they are not home from school til 4 and bedtime is 9:30pm. I thought hard about that, but the bills have got to be paid and the kids need to eat. As a single mom, I gotta do what I gotta do. I took my youngest son with me last week. He had a blast. It was the family that suggested I bring him, both boys actually.  But that isn't fair to my son or my patient. My oldest son is 12 going on 40. I have no problem trusting him to be home alone till I get in from my shift. But still I would feel much better if there was someones with him a bit older. I was told of a 17y/o girl who would be interested in sitting on the week nights, so I passed along my number. The girl called telling she was interested and her mom was cool with her taking the job. I give her all the details. Its a pretty gravy job just to sit and watch tv with the boys or play on the computer til I get home and still get paid. I fix the meals before I leave, I clean up when I get home. The boys are old enough to do for themselves but still need some supervision. Anyway, I have stretched the details too much, the girl was supposed to come after school today to meet the boys and what not. At 6pm, I still hadn't seen nor heard from her, so I contact her. She tells me her mom says she can't sit through the week but could some over the week end. Now I do understand that seeing how she is still in school and all, but I specifically made reference to that the first time I spoke to her last Monday. Then she said it was no problem with her mom, she said ok. So what I don't understand what has changed between then and now. If she had just said last week that she couldn't take the job, I could have placed an ad in the local paper and maybe have a sitter by now. I can place one tomorrow, but it won't out til Friday's edition. So in the meantime, I have to take my youngest with me again and leave my oldest home.  I know things will work out soon, but I had to get this out. My lid was about to explode.  Some folks don't realise the effects their dishonesty has on other people.Its all because of greed. Now I'm sure the girl hadn't gotten the previous permission she had told me she had, and that is because she wanted to do it and did not want me to consider anyone else just in case she got her mom to change her mind. That was so wrong. OK, I'm done now.