A/N: It is now April, and Joanne is 8 months pregnant. Just an update… Oh and corporal punishment is discussed in this chapter, but I'm not saying that all parents from the south believe in it, that is just my experience, so don't take offence if you live down south. Really, don't. Mmmkaybye.

Water

Joanne had swollen ankles. She was experiencing shortness of breath. That damn baby wouldn't stop kicking! So, the doctor put her on bed rest; for the rest of her pregnancy, Joanne was not allowed to be on her feet for more than thirty minutes a day. In laymen's terms, the Jefferson-Johnson household was hell.

"Maureen I need my laptop for the tenth time!" Joanne bellowed.

"Joanne you are not immobile and you haven't been on your feet all day. Go get it yourself!" Maureen tartly responded. Today the two of them jus could not get along. Maybe the fact that Joanne was restricted from movement and Maureen was PMS-ing really sent things over the edge.

"Fine Maureen, I'll go get it. But if our daughter comes out and something is wrong with her, I'll say thanks to you." Slowly Joanne managed to waddle out of bed and make her way to the living room where the diva sat with all of the lights off and a wet cloth over her eyes. The lawyer walked over and stepped on Maureen's foot. The diva screamed.

"What the hell was that Joanne?" Joanne snorted at her remark.

"Pshh, maybe if you turned on a light I wouldn't go around crunching your toes." Joanne went over to retrieve her laptop and made her way back to her room.

Joanne walked into the bedroom and opened the laptop to look at some work that she needed to do while she was here. Unlucky for her, Joanne had already done a month's work in the first week she had been put on rest. Most people might consider this good news, but most people were not Joanne. All this meant for her was that she had nothing to do all day, and had to sit around feeling like a lump on a log. The lawyer really never had time to relax before and now she vowed that she would relax.

The lawyer opened up her start menu and started a game of solitaire. Being as busy as she was today was the first time day that she ever got to finish a game. She thought it was kind of pathetic actually because really, never finishing a game? Come on… When she won the game and all of cards came popping out at her, she was thoroughly amused. I could get used to this bed rest thing, Joanne thought to herself. As Joanne started a new game, Maureen waltzed into the bedroom.

"Pookie are you mad at me?" Joanne shook her head as Maureen climbed into the bed with her.

"No. I understand it all. It's hard to have two hormonal women in the same household. But just think, there really cannot be more than a month of this drama left and then we will be home free." Maureen agreed with her.

"Yeah, except then we'll have a screaming little girl around." The couple laughed together as Joanne showed Maureen her new fascination with solitaire. Around three that afternoon, Maureen went to pick up the twins from kindergarten. When she came back with them, their presence was greatly noticed. First thing the two of them did was run into the bedroom and sit on either side of their Momma.

"Momma! How was your day?!" Jaylyn giddily said.

"Sweetie, calm down while you're on the bed. My day was great though, thanks for asking. How was your day?" Jaylyn's smile increased while Jessica tried to slink out of the room.

"My day was great momma. But Jessie got in trouble in art class today." Joanne cleared her throat an called for Jessica.

"Where do you think that you are going Jessica Madison? You can come back here right now thank you very much." Jaylyn sat on the bed smiling, "and you can leave Jaylyn. Remember: you'll only like snitches when you're being a lawyer, not to get your sister in trouble…" Joanne kissed Jaylyn on the head and shooed her out as Jessica shyly walked back into the bedroom.

"So according to Jay, you got into trouble today." Jessica slowly nodded as she contemplated her answer.

"Yes, yes I did momma. But I gots to tell you why first before you punish me okay?" The lawyer tried her hardest not to laugh because while Jessica seemed so serious, she was being a little drama queen just like her mommy.

"Okay Jessica, you tell me before I decide what we are going to do with you." Jessie sighed.

"Okay so we were in art and the teacher said that we were gonna do painting. So even thought she said we couldn't get the pain herself, I went and got mine by myself. It was really high on the shelf so I had to stand on the counter to get it. Then it…well, it sort of dumped out of my hands onto Diana's head." The lawyer tried her hardest not to laugh but she couldn't stifle a small giggle.

It was hard at times to be the disciplinarian of the family. Maureen tried to help out but she loved playing around with the kids too much and was just one of them basically. Maureen was a great mother, don't think otherwise, but she just wasn't out to handle the disciplining. To make matters worse all Joanne had to figure out how to discipline the girls was what her parents did with her. That wasn't the best example of child-rearing though either. Joanne grew up in Maryland and her parents, although very wealthy, still believed in corporal punishment. If she had done what Jessica had just confessed to, it would have been a spanking for sure. But even though the occasional swat was delivered once in a while, Joanne really didn't believe in spankings. So what was she to do now?

"Okay so I know the whole paint on the head thing was a accident so as long as you apologize to Diana and you promise no more climbing, the you are home free; okay?" Jessica climbed on the bed and hugged her mother.

"Thank you Momma! Thanks so much! You're the best. Really, you are."

"Later that night Maureen and Joanne sat talking together on the bed.

"So your day went well Pookie?" Joanne nodded before answering.

"yeah; can you believe that Jessica dropped paint on that poor girl's head?" Maureen giggled.

"Our two girls are an interesting bunch."

"Yep, and we are going to have another one pretty damn—" Maureen looked at Joanne.

"Pookie are you okay? What's wrong?" Joanne grimaced.

"I think…"

"What, what is it?"

"My water broke Honeybear."

"Wait what, it's too early for—"

"Maureen I'm having the baby!"

"Ohmigod! Let's go!"

A/N: Okay, so I know in my last chapter I said to expect only three more chapters but I don't like what I had planned so I'm going unplanned from now. I think that you can expect at least five more chapters out of this. Review por favor!