AN- Hey everyone, Thank you all for sticking with me! I pretty much was asleep or sick all last week and when I started feeling better Saterday evening I had four kids running around the hospital room. THis is a little bit of a fun filler chapter. Next chapter will be The ultrasound.

Callie said on a chair in the front yard as she watched her moms and Mike pull stuff out of the trailer. Mom had tried to convince her she should stay at their house until the place was aired out and everything was unpacked, but just sitting outside her house was nice. There wasn't a whole lot, her bed, a recliner, and a kitchen table and was it for furniture. She'd been saving up, she had enough to furnish the house if she watched her budget. Maybe she could get her Momma to do some estate saling with her, she thought. It was something Lena liked to do and could be done on the weekend when Lena wasn't at work.

"How is it smelling in there?" Callie asked Lena as she walked out of the house, having brought a box in, "I want to be able to do something."

"It's getting better, Babe, but what are you expecting Mom to let you do in there?" she asked. Stef was in the middle of setting up her bed frame and airing out the master bedroom as Lena and Mike carried in the last couple of boxes.

"I don't know," Callie grumbled. Her mom was getting on her nerves. She freaked out when Callie picked up the bag of her bedding, "what is she letting you do?" Lena laughed, "So, you think you could sneak away for a few hours while they do the hard labor?"

"What do you have in mind, Slug a Bug?" Lena asked as she pulled a chair and sat down beside her.

"Hitting up a few estate sales for some furniture. I need a dresser for my room, everything for the guest room and Peanut's room. A couch and a book shelf or two would be nice."

"Sure, Mom was just complaining about you being out here in the sun," Lena smiled, "It'll be fun too. Mom never wants to go estate saling. If we find something maybe we could get Jenna to come with her pick up."

"How is Jenna?" Callie asked as she stood up. Jenna was around every other year when Garette spent time with his other mom on the holidays, but other than that, Callie wasn't around enough to know.

"She's doing alright, she's been dating a woman, Crystal, for 6 months now."

"And what do you think of her?" Callie asked after Lena had gone in and told Stef where they were going.

"Crystal's alright. Do I think Jenna will stay with her for the long run? No. SHe's too used to being alone, likes the freedom." Callie noded as she pulled up craigslist on her phone.

"I can understand that. There's one about a mile from here, says there is tons of baby stuff," She said as she read out the address.

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Lena smiled as she watched her daughter walk around an estate sale. With Callie's natural connection with Stef and being still at work herself, she had been feeling like she didn't get a lot of time with Callie. Callie had become a natural estate saler through the years, Lena noted. Callie had already had found a kitchen table that seated four until you put the 2 leafs in and then it could seat eight. It was priced at $100 and Callie had gotten it down to $65 for the table and 6 tablecloths, 3 of each size, and 4 chairs. She said she wanted a bigger table to be able to do family dinners. Lena had a suspition it was part of the plan to convince them she was staying. She doesn't know, Lena thought, how much impact being invited to the ultrasound had on Stef.

"Momma, come here!" Lena heard from a a room. When she walked in she could see Callie looking excitedly at a crib, changing table, small dresser, and rocker in a deep brown, "WHat do you think?" She asked, "I was going to wait on a crib since the baby is going to be sleeping in my room for a while but it's $175 for the set."

"I think they're great, Honey, why don't you send a picture to Jude and see what he thinks?" Lena asked.

"Do you think he could redue the rocking chair?" Callie asked as she snapped a picture and sent it to Jude before sitting down on the chair and rocking back and forth slightly. Lena looked at her daughter and shook her head. When did the frightened, beaten, young teen she picked up from Juvie become a grown woman about to have her own child?

"I'm sure he would love to," Lena smile, "You ok?" She asked when a look went over Callie's face.

"Yeah, Peanut is just doing back flips," Callie said as she rubbed her stomach gently, "Other people should be able to feel the baby in a week or two, then Mom will never leave my stomach alone."

Lena laughed, "You're probably right." Callie looked at her phone,

"Jude says they're perfect," she said as she hauled herself up and went out front.

After Callie had paid for the stuff they sat in the car at Pita-Pit where they stopped to grab a bite to eat while waiting on Jenna. They had been to four estate sales and had pretty much exsausted the open sales for the day.

"Same time next Saturday?" Callie asked as they sat in easy silence, "I still have a couch, book shelves, the guest room furniture, and a dresser for me to get."

"Sure, whenever is good for you, Hun," Lena said as she ate her chicken ceaser pita, "Thank you for asking me to come. I've ha a lot of fun."

"I don't get to spend enough time with you," Callie shrugged, "I thought this would be something we would both enjoy."

"You're right, you don't know how happy your mom is though, to go to the ultrasound."

Callie laughed and rolled her eyes, "At least three times a day she tells Peanut to corroperate so that she can start buying baby stuff. You're not going to let her go overboard, right, Momma?"

"Yeah... I'm going to stop my wife from spoiling our first grandchild... right..."

"You guys are terrible."

"We're not that bad!" Lena laughed.

"Really, Mom held a threaded needle over my stomach last night saying if it went back and forth Peanut was a boy and if it went in a circle Peanut was a girl. I'm pretty sure that's borderline crazy."

"And what did it do?" Lena asked with a smile. It was an old wivestale, but it warmed her heart.

"That is a secret," Callie smirked.

"Because you're hoping whatever it did is going to be the truth?"

"Well, Mom said when she did it to herself it went back and forth, and now there's B."

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Callie sat in her mom's car while Jenna and Momma loaded up the last peice of furniture into the back of the truck. The woman who ran the estate sale was a nice woman and brought her out a cup of ice tea and had her husband helping the women.

Once back at the house she got out and stretched, hoping to be able to go in her bedroom without gagging. Walking in the kitchen she saw her mom drinking a beer and Mike, a cup of coffee, "Don't you think it's a little unfair that you guys are drinking the stuff I can't in my own house?" she asked with a groan.

"You guys left us with all the hard work, we deserve a break."

"Sorry, Mom, but there is more to do, there is a full set of nursery furniture and a kitchen table and chairs that need to come in, though I can go do it."

"Like Hell you will," Callie turned in surprise to see it was Mike who blurted it out.

"Please don't you start too, I will ban you from my house."

Stef snorted, "Like that'll work. I can't move all this furniture by myself."

Callie smiled, "I do really apreciated it you guys."

"We know," Stef smiled, "I started stuff for dinner for everyone, why don't you and Momma get stuff ready for a salad and me, Jenna, and Mike can get stuff out of the truck?"

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Callie picked at her food, though was much more interested in watching the people around her. She was blaming the emotional stuff on her hormones. She thought back to when she first moved in with her moms. She figured she'd be there a couple weeks, eight years later, she had gotten to watch them both age, well all three of them, if she counted Mike. She watched him struggle through his alcohol addiction and come through the other side, only after Brandon cut him out of his life. Never did she imagine when she had her first child would they be there.

"You ok, Sweets?" Stef asked as she looked over at Callie's who's eyes were glazed over.

"Yeah, pregnancy hormones," She said as she wiped her eyes, "I'm just glad you guys are here."

Stef gave her one of her signiture small smiled "We are glad too, Love."

"So, Callie, are you hoping for a boy or a girl?" Jenna asked as she turned to the young girl.

" I haven't really decided," Callie laughed, "I mean, I think I want a girl, but kind of afraid of Marianna getting ahold of her. She'd have her ears peirced and toes painted by 6 months."

"Would you name her after Colleen?"

"I don't know yet," Callie smiled softly, "if it's a boy his middle name will be Jude, but I'm still playing around with girls names."