Wonderful week

I really have had the most amazing time at home during this half-term. Mathew is at such a cool age now, where he is his own little character and has his own personality, and wants to have his say and make his own suggestions, and he's so much fun to be with. It's very hard to believe that I have had anything to do with his creation and his progress, so used am I to thinking that things I have produced in the past have been useless. But that's about my own misgivings about my own abilities, nothing to do with parenthood. He makes me so proud, and he fills my world with love and with joy, and the fact that he is the result of Philippa and I being together is just mind-blowingly wonderful and makes me feel so connected to her and so in love with her in ways that I simply cannot describe in words.
On the Rory Scale of Contentment right now, with 'Citizen Kane' being perfection, and 'Volcano' being near to suicide, I am definitely sitting happily at 'The Silence of the Lambs'.

RC 21-2-25