Somewhere....skies are blue

Today continued to be a beautiful day and I really enjoyed the tranquility of the singing birds, sheep bleating & the rustle of trees blowing in the warm breeze.
The atmosphere at home remains pretty frosty.
It turns out that following the fall from her bike on Saturday afternoon, Evie has in fact, broken her arm [left one this time].
No action was taken, I understand, until she returned home and Sinead got her seen to on Sunday evening.
Alex understandably is riddled with guilt as, despite her sobs, he told her to give it a rub and get back on her bike.
We ended up having words as the poor girl was clearly in a lot of pain. I administered some pain relief to the soundtrack of complains that I was "pandering" to her too much.
She was crying her eyes out so, if nothing else, it would act as a placebo & get her to feel a little bit better.

The thing that has annoyed me more than anything throughout the episode is the fact that I was trying to help his daughter - one who, it has been said previously, is afraid of me.
I'm either an "evil stepmother" or I'm pandering too much....can I ever actually get it right?!?
If I'm not "being mean" to his children I'm not serving him with the love & attention I apparently ought to be as his girlfriend...
It's difficult when you're constantly walking on eggshells because you don't know which way to go with things...

I'm pretty sure if I didn't show Evie any mothering attention,I would have quickly been dubbed Maleficent....