here's chapter 5! it was actually a lot longer, but i'm lazy so i didn't want to type it all up. yea i know. i'm mean. but it also didn't really fit, so it's not crucial. i'll put it up as chapter 6 later. i hope you guys like this one!

"Maureen, hurry up or we're gonna be late! We still have to drop Kelly and the twins off at Roger and Mimi's before we take Grace to school!" I yelled to our bathroom door as I finished dressing the twins. I set them in their playpen that we kept in our room and then walked over to the bathroom and knocked on the door. "Maureen, hurry up, I have to pee, too!" As soon as I said that I decided that I couldn't wait any longer, so I opened the door and walked into the bathroom.

"Hi, Pookie!" Maureen greeted me from the toilet. "I'll be ready in a minute."

"That's just wonderful," I said as I pushed her off of the toilet and sat down.

"Pookie, what's wrong? You sound mad."

"I'm sorry, but when I have to pee you know I can't wait."

"Yea, but at least be glad that you don't have morning sickness." She walked over to the sink and began brushing her teeth. "Having an overactive bladder is nothing compared to puking your guts out every morning."

I flushed the toilet and walked up behind her and wrapped my arms around her waist. "You better hurry up; we don't want Gracie to be late for her first day of kindergarten." I kissed her on the cheek before walking back into our room. I picked up the twins from their playpen and stopped at the door before going to get Grace and Kelly. "I'm gonna get everyone into the car, hurry up because we need to leave in a few minutes."

"Wait, Pookie," Maureen said as she came out of the bathroom. She picked up a hair band off of her dresser and pulled her hair back into a ponytail. "I forgot to tell you- Mimi called this morning while you were in the shower. She had to take Roger to the hospital this morning- I think she said pneumonia or something- and they can't watch the girls, so I called Stacy and she said to just call her right before we leave and she'll come over. Want me to call her now?"

"Sure. I'll take the twins to the play room and make sure that Grace is ready to go so we can leave as soon as Stacy gets here." I balanced a twin on each hip as I walked down the hall to the open space that we had made the play room. Although all of the girl's rooms were on the third floor, Maureen and I wanted a place for them to be able to play and watch TV on the same floor as our room and my office. I put both of the twins down on the carpet and walked over to turn off the TV. I turned around and looked over at Grace and Kelly who were playing with the Barbie house that my parents had given Grace for starting kindergarten. "Grace, are you ready to go?"

"Yes, momma." She put down the Barbie she had been playing with and kissed Kelly on the head before skipping over to me. She was such a perfect big sister. As she bent down to kiss the twins the doorbell rang. "Maureen, can you get that? It's probably Stacy."

Grace ran upstairs to her room to get her backpack while I watched the twins crawl over to Kelly. Just as Grace was coming back from the third floor Maureen and Stacy came into the room. I thanked her for coming on such short notice before I walked downstairs and into the garage with Grace and Maureen.

When we walked into Grace's kindergarten classroom I wasn't surprised to see that all of the other kids were being dropped off by their mothers and fathers. We had tried to explain to Grace that most kids had a mom and a dad, not a momma and a mommy, but I don't think that she really understood what we had been trying to tell her. As far as I knew, Grace was the only one in her class with lesbian parents. There was a couple from our parenting group, Michelle and Sophia, who had a set of twins that were the same age as Grace, but they had a late birthday so they were downstairs in the 4-year old class. Connor and Lorraine were two of the cutest kids I had ever seen, and our girls were like sisters to them. As I went back to watch Grace play with a puzzle I noticed that she was being approached by a woman whom I assumed was one of the teacher's aides.

"Hi, I'm Miss Jenna, what's your name?" she asked as she bent down to be on Grace's level.

"I'm Grace," she said.

"Well, Grace, why don't you go join some of the other kids who are over there playing house?" She pointed over to where a group of kids were playing.

"My sisters and I just moved here from the city and I don't know anyone yet." She looked back down at her puzzle.

"Really? Well, how old are your sisters?" Jenna asked as she sat on the floor next to Grace.

"Well, Kelly just turned three last week and she's my bestest friend. And then Maddie and Sissy are 11 months old. They're identical twins. Maddie's real name is Madison, and Sissy's real name is Isabelle, but Kelly couldn't say that when they were born so she started calling her Sassy, but Mommy told us to just call her Sissy." She turned back to the puzzle that she had been putting together. Jenna opened her mouth and was about to say something, but Grace turned back to her and started talking again. "And then in four months I'm gonna have another little sister because Momma's pregnant again. I know what they're going to name her because I got to help pick out the name, but I'm not allowed to tell anyone yet, not even Kelly."

Jenna looked shocked, like she hadn't heard anything like that before. Not that I expected her to have, but it's always funny to see how different people react to Grace's description of her family. She never mentions that Momma and Mommy are two different people; she just assumes that everybody knows that already. After Jenna had recovered from her shock she spoke. "Is your mommy here right now?"

"Uh-huh." Grace nodded as she pointed in the general direction of where Maureen was standing. "She's right over there."

"Ok. I think I'll let you get back to your puzzle and go say hi to your mommy."

"Ok. It was nice meeting you." Grace was so polite, a trait that had obviously not come from Maureen or I.

I was the only pregnant mother in the room who was showing, so Jenna automatically came to me and not Maureen.

"Hi, I'm Jenna Miller, one of Mrs.Kell's aides," she said as she held out her hand. "Are you Grace's mother?"

"Yes, I am." I reached out and shook her hand. "Joanne Jefferson, or as Grace calls me, Momma."

"It's very nice to meet you. Grace was just telling me about all of her sisters and how you're having another baby in a few months. That must be hard; four girls already and a baby on the way. How does your husband survive with so many girls in the house?"

"Actually, it's not that hard to manage four kids when you have a schedule, plus it's worth it. And I don't have a husband, so that's never been an issue." I loved confusing people.

"No husband? Wow, you must be super mom or something. Is it hard being a single mom?"

"I wouldn't know because I'm not a single mom." I tried to give her a stare, but it was just too funny confusing her. "Can you hold on a second?" I looked over to where Maureen was standing, talking to one of the other mothers. "Hey Mo, can you come here for a minute?" Maureen looked at me and nodded and then said a few things to the woman she had been talking to before coming over to where Jenna and I were standing. I wrapped my arm around her waist before looking at Jenna. "Jenna, this is my wife, Maureen. Maureen, this is Jenna Miller, she's one of Mrs.Kell's aides."

"Maureen Johnson. I'm Grace's Mommy," she said as she held out her hand for Jenna to shake.

"It's nice to meet you," she said, taking Maureen's hand and shaking it. "Well, class is about to start and I have to go help Mrs.Kell get a few more things ready." She quickly turned around and walked away from us.

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