"Then they'd probably argue about who's face got washed the longest or something," Karla groaned. Funny how much harder she'd been hitting the beer since the children had come up in conversation. A week later and she still hadn't recovered. "I don't think I was ever so glad to have been an only child as I was watching them wrangle about everything."

Of course, since most of them were normally only children anyway, that might have been a consideration.