I admit I am 7 weeks pregnant and therefore maybe more prone to emotional outbursts but my stepsister wound me up something awful at the weekend.
There was a family party which I attended with my 10 month old DD. It didn't get going till nearly 8pm - way past DD's bed time but DP and myself dutifully showed her round and then tried to put her to sleep in the car seat in a quiet corner. DD has a brilliant temperament and sleeps like a top and we thought it would be worth a go. Unfortunately DD didn't take to it and started crying. We tried to soothe her but after a short while we realised nothing was going to work and we would have to leave. There was then a frantic 5mins whilst we collected all our things together and said some speedy goodbyes. I went to go and pick up DD and found my stepsister had her and she started berating me for leaving her to cry for too long meaning that DD was really sobbing. I took DD from her and left hurriedly. When we arrived at where we were staying we realised that the cause of distress had actually been a dirty nappy (a strangely non-smelly one) and once that was sorted all was well again and DD slept the rest of the night. Now the reason stepsister particularly wound me up is that I have never had anyone tell me off for poor parenting and she herself is bloody useless. Her older son (now in late 20s) is a racist, workshy, drug addict who was cut off by his Mum when her new husband said he didn't want anything to do with him (when the son was only a teenager). Someone at the party even said "oh your stepsister only had to pick your DD up and she stopped crying". My DP told me that was rubbish as DD had already stopped crying when stepsister picked her up. Just needed to get it off my chest really.