Chapter 44

"Speaking of that…the bunny suit was an inspired idea, maybe you should buy it so we always have it around!" she teased with a wink.

"I have a feeling that we've gotten the surprise value out of the suit by now, and I think we do pretty well without it!" was his comeback.

"You're right of course," she admitted. "Now are you ready for round two, so we can get a short nap in before one of us has to go and get the kids?"

"Yup," he told her, then added, "But how will we decide who goes to get them?"

"We could flip a coin," she offered.

AJ laughed and said, "Sounds like a plan." Both of them, while not wanting to be mean to the other still didn't want to be the one to get dressed and make the long two way drive, especially when some of the kids would already be asleep at Bud and Harriett's and would have to be awakened to get them into the car for the drive home.

After making love and getting in a short nap, AJ got out of bed to go to the dresser. He kept a small dish there that he dumped his change into so it wouldn't rattle around in his pockets. Picking up a quarter, he looked at Mac still lying in their warm bed, "Call it," he instructed as he flipped the coin into the air.

"Heads," she giggled, with a leer, since he was standing there in the buff.

Distracted by her suggestiveness, he missed catching the quarter and it landed on the shag carpet. With a chuckle, he insisted that she had to come and see the result.

Figuring that meant it was her that had lost the toss and he wanted her to see the confirmation for herself, she got out of bed and walked over to him. There was the coin, caught and held in the thick fibers of the carpet. It was on its edge!

Shaking her head and sighing she said, "Well, as I see it, we have two options. We could toss the thing again, or we could just leave the kids with Bud and Harriett telling them they won them in the secret lottery we held."

Laughing, AJ replied, "There is a third option…we could both go and get them…after all we did go to all the trouble of adopting them and moving them here. If we were just going to get rid of them this quick after moving back, we could have just left them in Hawaii."

With a beleaguered sigh she answered, "I guess you're right," and headed for the closet to get some clothes to wear. AJ did the same.

To be continued….