So, with a legitimate reason, my brother and his girlfriend asked me to baby sit their two girls, I love kids, and the extra money will be nice, so I said yes.

BUT. see, my brother works the rigs, so he works for a few weeks then is off a week or so, and obviously I wont have the girls those days, I used THAT as an excuse to set up what the monthly charge for the girls was, and broke it down to what that is each week and then broke it down even further to what it is each day.

The reason is that my brothers girlfriend has a job,a nine to five job, Monday to Friday, but she has a history or not being able to keep jobs. And therein lies the problem. If we had set a monthly fee for the girls, how do I work it out if I get them say two days this week and four the next? And what happens if I watch them today and tomorrow but then she quits/gets fired form her job?

I love my nieces, they are quite adorable – they have issues, of course they do, but they are good kids, but I don’t really trust my brother to pay me.

I feel kinda guilty that I worked it out the way we did, day/week/month, but while I will enjoy looking after the girls, I will not do it for free. I’m not looking to make enough to go vacation in the gulf shores hotels, but not having to stress about which bill gets paid on which paycheck, well, it will be nice. My brother will be saving close to 350 a month in child care – that’s with the cost of gas to drive out here factored in.

I’m just not quite sure how to handle the first time that payday comes and I am told they can’t – for whatever reason- pay me that day.

Because I know that that will happen, providing I have the girls long enough for it TO happen.