Maggie is eaten up with jealousy when she goes with Buffy to a weekend seminar, and comes back to find Loretta has outdone her homemaking.
Buffy alerts Maggie to the fact that Bruce got in trouble at school. Meanwhile, Maggie is the proud owner of her very own car.
Maggie babysits for a friend in hopes of coming up with enough money to cover Mark's braces, but the girl is not the angel Maggie is led to believe.
Maggie fears the love has gone out of her marriage, and takes Len on a marriage encounter trip to get to the bottom of things.
Pressure from her mother leads Maggie to take up poetry again.
Len considers a career switch after learning that a former colleague has struck it rich outside the teaching profession.
The girls goad Maggie into throwing a birthday party for Bruce, but Buffy's diamond ring seemingly winds up in an unlikely place during the event.
Maggie takes Mark to see a therapist in hopes of curing his problem.