Sons

Tis me the Guestling.
You know when writing one's adventures it is sometimes easy to miss very important facts. I have introduced a number of the members of my family and many of the people in my life. I have up until now neglected to introduce proudest and most precious achievement, my children. Lady Thorn has always been the light in my life but my sons are the substance and carry the Thorn torch forward into the future. My sons are the only offspring on our generations tree, me and the good ladies siblings have not produced a single child between them.  So without them the tree would have withered and died!
Now you may have thought having read my previous ramblings that Lady Thorn and I had never had time for children but that was my fault for neglecting to write about them.
Somewhere in the hectic and my oft moving career in the world of diplomacy we managed to have two boys and nurture them well enough that they have grown into fine men and have made both their mother and I proud. 
Number one son was born on a Saturday, with all his fingers and toes and everything in the right place and yes I was present at the birth, a very prideful and emotional experience.
We named him, after some debate between his mother and I, Cole Beauregard Randolph Francis Thorn. He has grown into a wonderful chap. Highly intelligent, must be from his mother, a credit to himself and hopefully our parenting skills.
Two years later his brother came into our lives a little sooner than the full gestation period, so keen was he to get himself into the world, gave us a bit of a fright at first, incubators and all that but it turned out fine, though its safe to say he has been going at that speed ever since. We thought long and hard about names, did not help us in the slightest, he is Lucas Aaron Pierce Lennon Thorn.
He like his brother, has grown up to become a fine man. 
Naturally we have had our ups and downs with both of them, boys will be boys and none of us have not been off the rails from time to time but their mother and I could not have brought up two finer specimens of the Thorn clan.
So the family is complete. Of course credit must also go to Pomfrey. When each of them were born, his ever present smile grew into a wide grin and on both occasions it was the only time that I ever saw his composure slip as he danced a little jig upon the news. Pomfrey in many ways, like a kindly Uncle has imbued important values in both of them and guided them in ways that I would not have had the good sound sense to have done. He and Lady Thorn's wise council and no nonsense advice has in great part given them a grounded view of life. 
Me, I hope I have and will continue to help them understand this crazy world, I like to think that I have been the humor and discipline in their upbringing. The one thing I am proud to have imbued in them is their great respect and delight in the company of the opposite sex, equality of all people on this planet, to carry no prejudice, to give everyone a fair chance and when necessary treat anyone abusing those values with sympathy unless there is no other choice but to take action. I am not so foolish to believe that they would not have reached this understanding on their own but I am a firm believer that the child's perception of life comes largely from the environment they grow up in.
They have both met and settled down with lovely partners, wonderful women with whom I hope they will have, as great a long term relationship, as their parents.
I am not a sentimental man, my wife would disagree.
Your a soppy sod Guesty She will often comment but that being said, having children is one of life's great adventures and if it puts a smile on your face, you can't ask for more than that!
Bloody hell, she will call me a soppy sod after reading this!!