Anna smiled and blew a kiss and waved. No sooner had the door locked behind Enzo than she heard the doorbell ringing furiously. Sighing she got to her feet, plastered a smile on her face, and welcomed a woman into her home. She brought... nine kids? Between the ages of one and four. Anna didn't even want to THINK about how that might work.
The woman saw her alarm. "Oh, no, they're not mine. Several of the mothers on my street had to leave early, so they left their sons and daughters with me for the morning. Then I got a call, the emergency room is super short-staffed and they need me for a triple shift. And I know it's rather short notice, but if you could take care of them. Please. Otherwise I'd need to leave them all alone at my house."
"Of course I can." Anna murmured, already doing up the tallies in her head. Fourteen on the roster plus these nine plus the two or three walk-ins she usually anticipated... God. She was looking at twenty-five screaming toddlers for all day.