How do you explain on-call weeks to a 4 year old?

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One week in four I'm on call for our database systems. My laptop comes everywhere, and twice this month it went off in the middle of bath time and I handed her to my partner mid-shampoo. She now asks every morning, 'Are you on call today?' and if I say yes, 'Will you go away in the middle?' She isn't upset exactly. She's planning. So far I've said 'Mama has a work phone that rings sometimes.' Is there a better way to put it at this age, so she knows what to expect without it becoming something she worries about? ❤️

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