I offer babysitting on New Years Eve. It's completely separate from my home daycare services. I have one family interested right now, a former client, and I'm charging her $100 for both kids.

I'm going to a friend's house on New Years Eve and there will be several other kids so I'll bring my two charges with me and everyone will have a great time. We did this last year and it was a blast. The kids are picked up by 9:30 or by noon for an extra $20/kid.

I've also stated that once the family books me, they are required to pay me 50% of the my price if they cancel before Dec. 30th at noon and they are required to pay me 100% of my price if they cancel after 12 noon on Dec. 30th. This is to protect me from them finding someone to do it for free and losing out on the potential income. Now, if they cancel early enough and I can find other children to fill those spots, I won't charge the cancelled parents anything.

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