"That", said a voice, "Is What You Think!"

Friday morning I woke up lazily and my husband tried to put the moves on me.

He snuggled closer in the bed and I squeezed my eyes tight and tried to pretend that I was asleep and that nothing was poking me.

"Come on," he wheedled.

"They're AWAKE." I said.

"They won't bother us." he promised.

I quoted a line from our favorite children's story, "'THAT', said a voice, 'Is what YOU think.'"

He assured me that the kids were downstairs watching tv and that we were COMPLETELY alone.

"I'll be right back." I promised him heading toward the bathroom.

Almost IMMEDIATELY the door to our bedroom burst open.

"Oh, hi dad." my 5 yo said as if she were surprised to see him there.

I came out of the bathroom to see her snuggled down into my side of the bed.

I crawled in beside her.

The door burst open again - the 6yo.  She crawled in on my other side.

The 7 yo bounded in.  "The Everybody bed!" he cried and ran around to my husband's side.

"Whoah." my husband called.

"What?" my son asked, obviously offended that he was being excluded.

"I have to put underwear on." my husband said, throwing in the towel.

The girls "Ew'd" and turned away - but didn't get out of the bed.

My husband got dressed and he and my 7yo crawled in - so there were 5 of us in our King-sized bed - aka "The Everybody bed."

Except that 5 of us isn't everyboday.

At the same time all of the kids started screaming for my oldest son who was downstairs completely oblivious to the maritals being interrupted upstairs.  He came up the stairs, saw the 5 of us in the bed and squirmed on in.

Our bed does not hold "everybody" like it used to a few years ago but I think we can get a few more years out of it.

Especially because we won't be adding any more children - for obvious reasons.

Comments

[Misty @ The Family Math]

Sounds worth having the maritals interrupted every once in a while. :)

[octopusgrabbus]

The birds never let me sleep late, no matter what.

[cath]

There were 3 of us in college when my husband was working out of state a few years ago. All the kids would pile in bed with me and we'd do homework and watch TV. It helped us feel closer to my husband, in an odd way. Now it's the grandbabies' turn. :)

[Itsritzzz]

Is it immature for me to say "cockblocked" ?
i, for one am disheartened that one day my 7mo old son might give us maritals blue genitalia like this, are you allowed to lock the door or have your kids greet you when you exit your bedroom? Is this really selfish or healthy for the marriage?

[Moomser]

I'm not renown for my observation skills, so despite the fact that I have been reading you awhile it apparently escaped my attention that you have four kids. Now my question is this: how on this green earth do you manage to have as much sex as you do with all those kids around? I'm just exhausted at the mere thought!

[Tams]

Once again the lady is right! I'm just hoping by the time our last child moves out we'll still be interested in "maritals" lol too funny

[TL]

Ah yes, kids. Better than an IUD. It's a wonder how any of us manage to have more than one.