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Recently I was in the fortunate position of being able to help my sister out by looking after her 3 year old daughter for a few days. My sister needed to go on an impromptu business trip abroad during term time. I wondered if going from a clan of 3 to 4 for a few days would make that much difference to what is already a hustle-bustle household. I weighed it up and decided it would likely be less of a struggle as the bulk of the trip fell into the weekend and so at least there wouldn't be too much of an impact on work and the various school runs. My niece, is an adorable thing and always slots right into my clan and so I had no worries there. Even though I would need to incorporate the distance of her school from my home, I felt fine knowing it was likely she might be a little late-she wasn't taking GCSE's! Fast forward to four days later and I shake my head at how much I underestimated the amount of planning that could have helped me along. Despite being
