My son got married without telling me, and his wife coldly said, “Only special people were invited”— while I was still icing the engagement cake and quietly paying their rent and car bill for years, so I did the one thing neither of them saw coming…
On the morning I found out my son got married, I was icing a cake I’d baked for his engagement dinner, standing barefoot on the cool tile of my little Florida kitchen while a local morning show murmured from the TV. The frosting was still soft when the phone rang, and I answered with…