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"KL" and I have been friends for more than 10 years. She has now managed to ruin our friendship in less than a day. Last week, She asked me to watch her 3 year old daughter for a couple of hours. I agreed because I loved her children. I did tell her that my own daughter had a doctor's appointment later that afternoon. She assured me that she would have her daughter ("SG") picked up prior to that time. She never showed up. I ended up having to get my husband to take off work to take Kristen to her doctor's appointment so that I could stay home with "SG" who was still napping, as any 3 year old would be at 1:30 in the afternoon. Mike of course is not happy, but agrees because the doctor's appointment was important for Kristen, is in her first pregnancy and it is looking like it's twins. We are still hearing multiple heartbeats, but won't have an ultra sound to confirm it's two babies for another two weeks. When they get back from the OB/GYN, I'm so upset. Not only have I missed my opportunity to hear my grandbaby's heartbeat for the first time, but I have now had "SG" for more than 7 hours. She has no more pull ups and has pooed the last one. So once again, I have to ask Mike to take MORE time off work to run to Target or Walmart and pick up the underpants for this precious baby who is miserable in a dirty training pant! At 6:45, I finally manage to get in touch with her dad, who has no clue where his wife and/or children are. He doesn't know that I have "SG" and doesn't know who picked up the older two children after summer school classes were over at 1 p.m. He is frantically on the phone now, trying to locate the kids that he assumed (Until I called) were with his wife. Kristen and Zack offered to drive "SG" home which is a 50 mile trip ONE WAY so that "JW" can stay home and try and find the other two kids.I don't mention to him about having to purchase pull ups, feed her lunch, the missed doctor's appointment etc. I figure he has enough on his mind at that moment. The next morning, JW calls me at 5 a.m. and wants to know if I can watch SG again because KL still has not come home, or called. She is not answering her cell. His mother has agreed to get the older two to summer school, but could he give me some gas money to drive across town and pick them up and keep them until he gets off at 5:30. REMEMBER...they live 50 miles across on the other side of Phoenix. That's a 100 miles round trip. I told him I'd be glad to watch "SG" again, but I just couldn't make that trip to get the other two. So he then asks if I could just come to the house to watch SG and the bus will drop the other two off to me. Well, I have things that I need to do here at my house. But I feel so bad for him, that Mike and I agree that it will be ok for this one day. When I get to their house, I almost turned around and ran. I hadn't been there since we moved out to Arizona. I swear to you...the family could be a guest on the "Hoarders" tv show. I was afraid to stay in the house, and I certainly wasn't eating/drinking anything there. I ended up taking SG to the library, then to Chuck E. Cheese for lunch and let her play. When it was time for the older kids to get out of school, we went for a short drive to let SG finish her nap in the cool of my truck. Then we went for ice cream at McDonalds, and back to an air conditioned playground. *The temp was over 105^ so no way could they play outside! I dropped them off to JW a little after 5 that evening. Told him there was no way I could keep them the next day at either place. I had appointments etc...that could not be postponed. Still, no word at all from KL. Three days later, on Saturday, she calls me and is begins to act like nothing has happened. Quite the contrary...she is mad at me because I let SG have soda at Chuck E Cheese! Hello? I have to tell you, I wasn't very nice to her. But, now I'm feeling really guilty because we have been friends for so long. Her husband was transfered out here from Arkansas and she was SO excited when we decided to move out here back last winter. I love her children dearly but I just don't think she treated me fairly. And she still has no explaination as to where she was for three days, and why she lied to me about how long she needed me to keep SG. Should I just let this go? What would you do?