You put the kids to bed around 8 o'clock and now an hour has passed by. They have been given water, went to the bathroom and were read a story, you've done everything possible to ensure a good nights sleep. You figure, it's 9 o'clock and there's not a peep out of them, you and your honey are still awake (good for you!) and maybe you can have some adult fun!

You both slip under the sheets to do the horizontal mambo and apparently you forgot to lock the door because wouldn't you know it, there's one of your kids staring straight at dad's ass while he appears to be smothering you.

Now, what?! Not only do you not get to finish your sexy time (it was cut short by the midget across the hall) but now you have a million things racing through your mind. What did they see? What should I say? It's as if you were just caught by the cops and now you and your partner in crime need to compose yourselves and get your story straight before being interrogated.

Now I realize locking the bedroom door would be an obvious solution but what if you don't have one and your children are taking notes from your MIL and overstepping boundaries. Whether it's being interrupted by knocking or being walked in on, what do you say?

When I started writing this article I was leaning more towards How to Handle the Situation and what should be done when your kids accidently walk in on you but being that the answers to the problem were pretty straight forward I decided to go a different way with it. When asking parents what they do or how they handled being caught doing the dirty-dirty, more answered with euphemisms for sex and excuses rather than solutions. What did they say? What excuses do we use as parents and what are the fibs we tell our kids when we're disrupted or caught in the act?

1. Mommy and Daddy were/are wrestling

2. We were doing our taxes

3. We were playing 'Horsey'

4. Mommy and Daddy were/are exercising

5. We were/are playing peek-a-boo

6. Mommy and Daddy like to play bedroom baseball

7. We were having a rodeo

8. Daddy was just playing Doctor

9. We are/were playing 'Pop Goes the Weasel'

10. We were just dancing in the sheets

11. We were searching for something we lost in bed

12. Mommy and Daddy were Playing Twister

13. Testing the mattress

14. Daddy was teaching mommy self-defense in case she was ever attacked

15. Daddy was showing mommy how to parallel park

16. Washing the sheets

17. Daddy was just tickling mommy's tummy

I'm sure there are a bunch more excuse, white lies and fibs we tell or told. What did I forget? What do you tell your little ones?