Grace has divorced her abusive husband and is faced with supporting their three children. In the pr...

Quentin's bad moods are puzzling to Grace. Perhaps he needs a male role model. Grace tells Russell...

Grace and Nadine take a night out and flirt with some frat boys, while Russell and Wade try to ste...

Grace is angry when her paycheck is attached to pay the back taxes of her ex-husband; Russell's ex...

The 'nice' guy Grace meets, at the behest of Nadine to attend a 'second time around' meeting, turn...

Faith asks Grace to talk to Evie, their wild younger sister, but when the three get together, Grac...

Grace and Russell make plans for a double blind date; Libby is harassing baby Patrick.

Watching a talk show on tv, Grace sees her ex-husband brag about how his lawyer got him thousands...

Wade gets fed up with his job at the phone company and takes a new job as the 'in the air, on the...

Grace's status at the refinery becomes permanent and she gets a raise, but has to take the night s...

When Grace brings her depressed sister, Faith, home for the holidays, she learns that Faith has be...

Grace takes her kids to her in-laws' house to meet their great-grand mom (Lil) from their father's s...

Grace turns down the advances of a guy, but welcomes a gal who is a 'battered wife' needing help.

Needing her own space, Grace turns to the basement to create a room for herself and get some priva...

A romantic weekend in the Windy City is blown away when Ryan fails to show up at the airport on time...

Quentin shows his displeasure when Grace invites Ryan to dinner.

Libby is entered in a beauty pageant with a friend. The two mothers don't hit it off very well. L...

Quentin is totally out of control and getting into fights at school, so Grace takes him to a child p...

Grace and Ryan have time for themselves when Faith takes the kids to visit their grandparents and...

It is Mother's Day and mother comes to visit. Faith gives them an earful.

Grace's promotion does not bring her happiness. Quentin runs away to find his dad and the men at...

Grace's car is on its last legs and she goes shopping for a replacement. A neighbor is irate when...

Grace and the kids are set to wait out the big storm and rising flood when her ex arrives.

Grace tries to smooth things over when a new female employee charges Bill with sexual discrimination...

Grace lets Quentin and Libby care for themselves while she goes to work. Her new boss makes it clea...

Grace dates a minor-league ballplayer while Faith wants a major commitment from Russell who backs of...

Jimmy's new girl friend comes to Grace for advice and Grace gives her the bitter truth. Otherwise,...

Nadine and Wade have a marital battle with Grace in the middle. Nadine catches Libby shoplifting.

Grace wants to get Nadine back on track, so they take a trip to visit Grace's Aunt Vivian.

Acting somewhat like Abby, Grace tries to reconcile her boss with his estranged pregnant daughter....

It is a lonesome Thanksgiving when her ex takes the kids to the grandparents for the feast, but Libb...

An employee is killed and the plant damaged by an explosion which puts Grace in the secretarial pool...

Grace slips on the icy walk at Wade and Nadine's house, then visits a therapist who helps her decide...

Grace has to contend with her 'down-in-the-dumps' ex-mother-in-law and an invitation to a Christm...

Quentin goes to stay with his father and Grace has a short story published in the local paper.

Grace and Russell attend a real estate seminar with different objectives: Russell wants a profit, Gr...

Grace has an relationship with her masseur, but doesn't like his need to be in control.

Matthew, Grace's first son, who was given up for adoption, contacts Grace and puts her in a quandry....

The kids get into trouble with neighboring campers when Grace takes them into the woods.

Jimmy's father has chest pains and Jean is a pain of a different kind, when Grace insists he be take...

Grace introduces her first son to her other kids, but it doesn't go well.

Grace plans to go to the opera in St. Louis alone. Meanwhile, Russell visits his dad.

Faith and Grace drive to Memphis for their sister's wedding, with Russell who wants to see Gracela...

Quentin has a fight at school and Grace is angry when she discovers that Quentin used a racial slur...

Grace thinks Matthew's father should meet him, but the feeling is not mutual.

From a dateless state to a flood. All her boyfriends ask her out at the same time.

Grace is ready, but her boyfriend reneges on the grounds he is celibate due to two earlier affairs...

Jimmy has gotten his life in order and accepted a new job in Ohio, but the family has mixed reaction...

To Grace's great shock, Nadine asks her to donate an egg so she and Wade can become parents.

Downsizing becomes a problem for Grace as she discovers that her job was not eliminated but usurped...

While her relationship with Ben is waning, Rick asks her out on a date.

Grace faces a problem as she starts a relationship with Rick before she terminates Ben.

Grace is tired of kids, so she puts on a wig and goes to a bar where she assumes another identity.

Grace demands that a day care center be provided at work when she can't find a suitable sitter.

Grace and Matthew's adoptive mother get in a hassle after Grace bails him out when he is arrested...

A disgruntled ex-employee takes the gang hostage at the refinery.

Grace is annoyed by the friendliness of Rick and Jean, whose husband has gone fishing, at the Thanks...

Grace and Rick get together, but will it last?

Grace accidently learns something about Emmet and Wade considers running for city council.

The Kelly's Christmas celebration is dampened when Emmet dies suddenly and his 'significant other' a...

The title refers to Rick's daughter, Amy, who is rather ill-mannered and not Grace's cup of tea, but...

Grace's fear of being dependent causes her to turn down offers of help from her family and friends.

A neighbor's son starts hanging out at Grace's house and she finds he is escaping from a 'perfect' m...

When the nasty janitor is about to be fired for being HIV+, Grace is reluctant to help him. Rick...

Grace is just about set to move in with Rick when he loses his job.

The new Afro-American neighbors are coming for dinner.

Nadine has some big news for Grace.

The creative writing teacher and Grace are not tuned to the same frequency and trouble ensues.

Quentin creates the impression at school that he is seriously ill and Grandma Jean has a new beau wi...

While working for a crisis hot-line, Grace encounters the nasty janitor, Mullens, again and he hasn'...

Grace is sent home after a toxic spill at the plant and has an hallucination that her late father co...

Libby has been suffering from stomach pangs and Grace finds out they are from a stress-related ulcer...

Rick, who is under the influence, proposes to Grace who is inclined to accept until she learns of hi...

After years of doing improvements on her rental house, Grace learns that her landlord is putting it...

When Russell's ex-wife Barbara shows up with her current boy-toy in tow and says she's dragging Russ...

Russell asks Grace to be his date at the dance at the Victory Country Club where he's applying for m...

Dougie moves into Grace's garage apartment, and it soon becomes apparent that he's a forty-two year...

Grace and Russell are so bored with their lives that they decide to go out on a pretend date. Grace...

Grace finds some of Mrs. Walker's old dresses and tells Libby she can use one of them for a Hallowee...

Jimmy's back in town to stay, and, on Grace's recommendation, he gets a job at the refinery, but his...

Jimmy's back in town to stay, and, on Grace's recommendation, he gets a job at the refinery, but his...

When Libby's poem wins the ""Why I Love My State"" contest, Grace, Nadine and Libby go to New York f...

Grace, Libby and Nadine are still in New York, and Grace is obsessing that she's somehow failed to m...

With Grace at work all day and taking college classes at night, the kids are a little resentful that...

Holiday festivities are underway in the Kelly household with Jean making her famous punch loaf to Gr...

When Matthew shows up at Grace's and announces he's about to marry Joan, a woman old enough to be hi...

Grace is going crazy trying to finish her paper on ""The Grapes of Wrath,"" and she keeps reminding...

Libby reminds Grace of their deal that if she could keep her goldfish alive for six months, Grace wo...

Russell thinks all his friends are being disloyal because they're shopping at the new chain store ph...

Grace tells Quentin that he can't get a driver's license until he improves his grades just as Jimmy...

Grace brings Rob home to meet her kids just as Nadine announces that the baby's on it's way; Wade's...

When Grace isn't invited to Rick's weekend getaway because he has made plans with someone else, Grac...

Grace gets a new job at an advertising company and shockingly, her misery brings something new and i...

Grace arrives home very late from her job in St. Louis and finds the kids still up, the house in dis...

Grace is in search of a job and Libby is worried that they're going to be poor again. Russell knows...

Wade's back from Colorado and tells Grace that he and Nadine are splitting up. He also tells her he'...

Louise, Grace's mom, arrives for the holidays, surprising everyone. Louise has definite ideas about...

Jean is upset, complaining that the new bridge will cut off Emmet's (grave) view of the river, so Gr...

Libby wants to go to Washington on a class trip, but Grace can't afford to send her. A tornado has h...

D.C. has a chance to bid on a hotel job for one of the biggest developers in the Midwest. Grace tell...

Libby visits the bridge construction site on a field trip and discovers that the Victory Tree that h...

Grace buys some new clothes for the first time in years and the next day learns that her paycheck wi...

When D.C. and Grace have a meeting in a motel with an equipment supplier, gossip that they're having...

Wade shows up with Dan Gabriel, his old commanding officer in Vietnam, who's now a covert operations...

At the construction site, Grace feels the resentment of her co-worker, Derrick, who wanted the job G...

Grace stops by the pharmacy while Quentin's working at the soda fountain. Quentin's girlfriend Lauri...

At the pharmacy, Russell and D.C. get into a disagreement about a watch D.C. tries on that breaks be...