Why do my relatives insist on driving me crazy?

I remember now why I don’t like to be around a lot of my family around the holidays…they drive me crazy! I don’t mind being around Will, my kids, my parents and sisters, but when it comes to extended family I just would rather stay at home. Now don’t get me wrong, I love them, but I just prefer to keep up with them via facebook. One of my mom’s younger sisters (my mom is the oldest) has never had kids but yet she thinks she is the expert on raising kids. Everytime we are around her, she’s always telling my kids how they should act and what they should eat. Trey, my 4 yr old, is a bit hyper (ok, so he’s a lot hyper). He throws tantrums. But I do discipline him. Most of the time when I’m around her, she doesn’t even wait for me to say something to Trey if he is misbehaving. She starts saying she’s gonna put him in time out or spank him (um, no you’re not). I feel like I can’t relax around her house because if Trey so much as squeals out of sheer excitement when he’s playing, she will start scolding him. So that’s pretty much what she did Friday. I was tired from being up since 2 am that day and I didn’t feel like putting up with her. And also Trey was getting sleepy and that’s why he was throwing a tantrum. I knew that because I am his mother. My aunt is not. She isn’t around him enough to know that he gets like that when he’s tired. My cousins had their kids there and I didn’t hear her get on to them even one time. They were knocking stuff over and getting stuff out and just making a mess in general. I guess my aunt doesn’t want to make my cousins mad because a couple of years ago they were not getting along with my aunt. So she just let my cousins kids do whatever they wanted. I left without even telling anyone ‘bye’ because I was so mad. I mean I could literally feel my cheeks burning and my temper starting to flare. I didn’t want to say anything to anyone that I would have to apologize for later.
I still don’t know why my aunt insists on having all of our family holiday dinners at her house. She’s just so uptight about everything. You can definitely tell she has never had kids :) . I have just decided that since I am not comfortable at her house and she feels the need to constantly scold my kid, I will just not go to anymore stuff she hosts at her house. I will just go around my immediate family and that will be enough for me.

Tags: aunts, cousins, crazy, drama, family, holidays, Thanksgiving

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