Woodrow McIlmore is leading the perfect life in Paris, Arkansas: married to his high school sweetheart, he has two wonderful children and a warm circle of family and friends. When Wood's daughter announces that she wants to marry a college classmate, Wood is stunned. But that's just the tip of the iceberg -- her intended is the son of the woman who left Wood twenty years earlier, the free-spirited Duff. And so begins a tumultuous year in Paris, as...

When an overzealous congresswoman launches an investigation on Suzanne, she asks her old friend Anthony to dispose of her diary, fearing that her weight could become public knowledge.

When Malone is asked out on a date, her coworkers rally around to give the naive and newly-single mother some useful advice about men.

When Natty becomes violently ill, she asks Sissy to spend the weekend with her boyfriend Ed in prison so he won't have to forfeit use of the conjugal cottage. Complications arise when the two find themselves attracted to one another.

Suzanne, Natty and Sissy are sent to Alaska for work, where they meet a trio of hunky men who seem too good to be true.

Scandal erupts when Suzanne takes over her late husband's Congressional seat, causing such embarrassment for herself and her new coworkers that she contemplates resigning and returning home to Georgia.

Suzanne is invited to stay at the White House, where she accidentally breaks the historic Lincoln Bed. Meanwhile, Malone becomes obsessed with her new hobby: sketching nude men.