No matter what she tried to do, her thoughts kept drifting back to Cara. Cara and her beach wedding. Cara and her need to rush them all off to some foreign country where they would all probably get sick and die of some strange tropical disease or, at the very least, all get food poisoning from eating something only fit for the natives. Why did her daughter have to be so complicated? Betty stood at the sink aimlessly washing a dish that had been used at dinner. Even though Cara and Shane had only been gone for just over half an hour, Betty was already obsessing over this new idea for their wedding. Thinking back on it, despite all her posturing and her demands Heidi’s wedding had been so easy, Betty thought. She understood that her daughters were very different and were entitled to believe and do what they wanted with their lives, but she had worked so hard to make sure that her children followed a certain path, did things a certain way – the right way. While some might call her controlling, she simply believed it was her right as a mother to have certain expectations met by her children.
