Feeling like a tea kettle... See the steam???

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Alright, talk about a hectic month. This month started out well enough, well on a really good note indeed. I was given a house, not worth a whole lot but one that in under 7 years will put around $22,000 profit into my pocket. My daughter won a talent contest and has moved up to round 3 out of the 4 rounds, we are to be told this week if she moves on to the nationals. Things had been moving well this month. Then I received a phone call, from my sister and her girlfriend. Seems her girlfriend's husband died and two of her four children who are underage were in another state by themselves and she needed someone to take her to get them. Mind you my schedule is very flexible and I work from home on the internet, I can work anywhere. But I am a very busy person. I am a property manager also, besides my online work. I do side jobs for others to help improve their homes. But mainly I consider myself a Stay at home mom and my children main educator as they are home schooled. One of my children is having some issues with some health problems and is currently in a treatment home for her medical treatment. The place is 26 miles away so I only get to see her 3-4 times a week most weeks. Her spring break from school was this week and my son was taking his that week too, so we could spend some quality time together as we were getting extra visitation while school is out on break. But instead of spending that time with my children, I took my sister and her girl friend to another state to collect her kids. I am feeling good at this point even though I am missing my kids, since I left them home because of food costs on the road. Then we get 1200 miles away. Guess what I find out when we get there. One, no one is putting us up. I was told we had a place to stay with her family when we got down there. So they don't have any money and guess who had to put up the money for the hotel, or I could have slept in my van. I was tired by now and 1200 miles so when they said her girlfriend started her period and needed pads and wanted to get some food for the microwave in the room, I gave my sister the keys to go to the store half a block from the hotel. They came back almost 6 hours later. When they got back they had my van full of boxes of stuff they left behind when they moved back to my sister and my home state. The second thing I found out is that she had already decided before we even headed down there that she was going to let her kids finish out the school year and she never intended to bring them back to our home state. They can't understand why I am mad. Let see let me count the ways. They lied to me more than once. They took my van for almost 6 hours and never brought me back the food they were suppose to bring me back. They really just wanted to get their stuff not her kids and lied about it. I missed my kids spring break and guess what I love spending time with my kids. I do have strong opinions about things and I was a good girl I bit my tongue. People that know me know that is hard. I was polite and didn't tell anyone but my sister and her on the way there my feelings on it, cause they were saying people may try to stop her from taking the kids, and were trying to talk her into letting them stay. She said she wanted them and they were coming home with her, that is the only reason I took her, so she wouldn't lose her kids forever. I couldn't imagine leaving my children behind with other family members when I have a place for them in my home. My sister and her girl friend have a 4 bedroom apartment. Its just them so they have the room. I am angry I was played like a fiddle for a ride, that cost me out of pocket almost $400. Then they also yelled at me more than once. I almost kicked them out of my van more than once. I almost left them behind at the hotel and wanted to head back but didn't even though they knew I was getting pissed. And then to top it off, because I am educated today my sister girlfriend posted facebook that I act like I am high and mighty. This is what is going to happen. She abandoned her kids and if I was her family, I would go to the courts and get custody. And her family hates her, not her kids but the rest of her family. So they know the kids are taken care of through social security. One of them is going to go to the courts and take them from her. I am not mad that she left her kids behind, if that was in their best interest cause seeing they way they were acting it didn't seem that her kids were their first priority. They went for their things before getting her kids. What I am mad about is being lied to. I could have taken her to Greyhound and got her a round trip ticket if she just needed to have gotten down there to take care of things. I am also mad about how I was treated after doing all I did. Then the stupid ***** wants to now talk crap about me. I didn't even put all of the drama they put me through on this trip either. But this alone would it make you mad? Would you finally just go ahead and spill what you feel about it and let the chips fall where they may or would you just keep it in and let the steam slowly vent through something like this?