Reba, Kara and Lindsay were sitting in the living room one morning when a thought hit Reba.
"Girls, I just had an idea." Reba said. Lindsay and Kara both looked at her.
"What's your idea mom?" Kara asked.
"How about we go see your brother and sisters down in Houston for a few days? Take maybe a weekend or something and go see them? I think they'd really like it. They haven't seen Jordan or Jersey yet." Reba stated.
"I love that idea! I need to get out of this house. I am tired of everything I look at reminding me of dad." Kara exclaimed.
"I'll go." Lindsay said. "I haven't seen Cheyenne, Jake or Kyra in probably at least ten years."
"Great! I'll go call Cheyenne and see if we can stay in the house. We never sold it when your father and I moved to Boston." Reba responded. She jumped up and ran over to the phone in Jack's office and dialed. It felt to Reba like the phone rang forever when actually it probably only rang about four or five times.
"Hello?" A young woman said into the phone.
"Hi there. Is this Elizabeth?" Reba asked.
"No, but I can get her." She replied.
"Oh no, that's fine. Can I talk to your mom?" Reba questioned.
"Yeah, just a minute." She responded. Reba could hear her put a hand over the mouth piece on the phone. "MOM!" Reba pulled the phone away from her ear. After a minute she put it back so she could hear her daughter. Finally, Cheyenne was on the phone.
"Hello?" Cheyenne asked.
"Hi Cheyenne, how are you?" Reba questioned.
"Mom! It's so good to hear from you! We haven't seen you guys in years. How is everybody?" Cheyenne asked.
"Oh we're okay. Jack is off in France for two years, something for work." Reba stated.
"That doesn't sound good mom. I would be careful of him." Cheyenne responded.
"Thank you for that Cheyenne. I wouldn't know what to do without you." Reba said sarcastically. "Now who was that young woman who answered the phone?"
"You remember Samantha mom. She was just a baby when you moved out there, but she's practically all grown up now." Cheyenne replied.
"Little Samantha? Shy, quiet Samantha?" Reba questioned.
"Well, she's not so shy anymore. She's fourteen and thinks she's forty." Cheyenne stated.
"Oh I remember those days." Reba said with a smile.
"It's not funny mom. She's driving us crazy; she was kicked out of school for fighting just a few days ago." Cheyenne exclaimed.
"How would you like for Grandma to come down and knock some sense into her?" Reba asked.
"You'd do that for us?" Cheyenne questioned.
"Sure, why not? I'd love to get to see you guys again, plus Grammy Liz straightened Kyra out for me and your dad. Why shouldn't I follow that example and help little Miss Samantha?" Reba said.
"We'd really appreciate it." Cheyenne stated.
"I know." Reba replied. "Well how is Miss Elizabeth?"
"She's doing well. She's getting ready to go off to college. I can't believe it. She wants to go to the University of Houston." Cheyenne said.
"That's great!" Reba exclaimed.
"But it feels like she will be so far away." Cheyenne stated with a tint of sadness in her voice.
"I remember when my baby wanted to go to USC." Reba said. "That's a lot farther away that Houston."
"That was a thousand years ago mom." Cheyenne replied.
"Not the way I remember it." Reba responded. "You, Van, Kyra and Jake have grown up so much since your father and I got divorced all those years ago. It feels like forever ago now that we've been divorced."
"It hasn't been that long mom. About 18 years." Cheyenne said.
"So we can do it? You'll let us come stay with you for a weekend?" Reba asked.
"Sure." Cheyenne responded.
"I'm glad." Reba said. "I love you Cheyenne. Give my love to Elizabeth, Van and Samantha."
"I will. I love you too." Cheyenne replied and they hung up the phone.
A few days later
"Do we have everything ready to go?" Reba asked looking at Kara and Lindsay.
"I believe so." Lindsay replied looking in the car at her two little sisters and all the suitcases packed in the car.
"I just don't want to leave anything here. I know that we're flying, but we won't have any time to come back if we've left anything." Reba stated.
"Don't worry mom. We've got everything under control." Kara said with a smile.
"Alright. Let's roll." Reba and the girls hopped into the car and drove towards the airport. It took almost three hours to get everybody through security and to the gate for their flight. When on the plane, Reba took two Dramamine pills and fell asleep. Jersey and Jordan fell asleep not much later after her.
Several hours later
Reba, Lindsay, Kara, Jordan, and Jersey were getting off the plane and walking towards the baggage claim when a young woman with long blonde hair ran up and put her arms around Reba.
"I've missed you!" The girl exclaimed. Reba just laughed.
"Hello Elizabeth. I've missed you too. I hear that you're going off to college soon." Reba said.
"Yes I am." Elizabeth giggled. Reba turned to face Kara and Lindsay.
"Girls, this is your niece, Elizabeth. Elizabeth, this is your Aunt Lindsay and your Aunt Kara." Reba stated.
"Hi!" Elizabeth exclaimed. Kara and Lindsay just looked at Reba.
"She has a lot of energy. She's been that way since she was a little girl." Reba said.
"Oh boy." Kara said and looked at her older sister.
"This is definitely going to be the longest weekend in history." Lindsay stated. Kara nodded in agreeance. Reba and Elizabeth walked over and met Cheyenne and Van.
"I've missed you mom." Cheyenne hugged her mother tightly.
"Hi Mrs. M." Van said when Cheyenne let go of her. Reba looked at Van confused.
"What?" Reba asked.
"You were Mrs. H when you were married to Mr. H and when you were divorced, but since you got married again, now you're Mrs. M." Van clarified.
"Van, we have been in-laws for over 20 years, why don't you just call me Reba?" Reba asked.
"No can do Mrs. M." Van stated.
"Fine, but Van if you are going to call me something, please call me Mrs. H; I'm used to that. It's not easy to learn a new name." Reba said.
"That's fine. Let's get to get house. We live across town as you know. But we will drop you off at the old place. It's not changed at all since you left it. We haven't taken any of your old stuff out of it. Now Kyra took her stuff with her and Jake took his, but we made sure that everything else stayed the same." Van replied.
"Thank you Van." Reba responded. They all got into the car and drove down to the house. When Reba walked in the front door of her former home in Houston, Texas she leaned against the railing and sighed.
"What's wrong mom?" Cheyenne asked.
"Nothing's wrong Cheyenne." Reba put her arm around Cheyenne's shoulder. "I'm home."