A super lovely story!

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Proposals, babies, Europeans... I feel like I need ice cream and a big fluffy blanket to go with this story. Very well done.

This fic was unexpected. I wouldn't have thought Arthur was the proposer. Baby Matthew was adorable in this.

...I could cry rainbows

Oh my goodness! That was the sweetest thing ever!

Oh my gosh that was so adorable u I love it

I am crying. Honest to God... this was so wonderful and heartfelt and perfect. The story starts off with the wonderful that is Francis dancing and singing to (the greatest song ever) Single Ladies, and then Matthew comes in BEING ENTIRELY TOO CUTE FOR MY BRAIN TO HANDLE! After a forced reboot to deal with the level of love my heart was feeling at the combined cuteness of baby!Mattie plus the sweet, goofy, fun of Francis singing to him and kissing him all over... then you hit me with Arthur getting down on one. Frigging. KNEE!

And I started to cry. And used one hand to fan myself. And basically do all the things a person does when the love of their life is seeming to get into "will you marry me" position. Except of course it was happening to Francis but that's fine because I can live vicariously through their love and happiness. And I am not kidding... as much as I cooed and loved Arthur's adorable, romantic proposal, I was always SO close to yelling out, "JUST ASK HIM ALREADY!" because I wanted to see Francis say yes.

This family is wonderful, and it makes it almost worse to read the pain they go through in your other stories, BUT it almost makes the pay-off that much sweeter to see the perfect reunited again. So much love.

So much! LOVE!