Winding down, continued

Not all winding down goes quite as planned. As i mentioned yesterday, today was my last day of babysitting for MOPS until next fall.  It didn't go quite as I anticipated.  When I got to the church building, one of my favorite little girls was just ready to get on the elevator with her mom and baby brother so we rode up together.  As we walked to the meeting room, Gracy's mom mentioned that Gracy (age 3) hadn't wanted to eat breakfast this morning but she did eat a little.  I enjoy taking care of Gracy because she loves to be read to, and so we settled into the big rocking chair in the play room and I read her a story. Sadly, about ten minutes into this exercise, Gracy threw up all over herself, me and the rug. I hollered for help from the other sitters, we cleaned up as best we could, got Gracy's mom and sent them home.  Then, since even after some sponging off my jeans were quite wiffy, the other sitters suggested rather strongly that I might want to go home and change.  There were three other sitters there for nine children, so I didn't feel that I was leaving them under staffed. And so ended MOPS for me for this year. How anticlimactic.