Shi-hyun and I, agonizing over lunch, eventually chose to eat separately. We considered going to the buffet, but we didn't have time to go all the way there. Unless the shoot was completely finished, we couldn't waste time eating lunch and then having to shoot again.
After much deliberation, I decided to let the kids, who were cooperating so well, eat what they wanted. To do that, we decided to take the kids nearby to eat, and we decided to take Seo-hui, who had mentioned sushi. Honestly, I didn't want to eat sushi, but I couldn't handle any other greasy food, so I had no choice but to choose it.
Isn't it annoying getting older? There's nothing I particularly want to eat, but the number of foods my body can't handle keeps increasing, so I spend more time agonizing over it.
"Seo-hui, are you okay with eating with your grandmother?"
"Yes! Let's go eat sushi."
She's definitely become more mature as she's gotten older. She used to throw a fit if she was separated from her mom...
We each took care of the kids and left the studio, agreeing to meet again in an hour. Seo-hui was humming a tune, so happy to be eating sushi.
"Don't your mom and dad usually buy you sushi?"
I was curious what they usually fed her that made her crave sushi so much.
"Oh, no? We just eat meat more often."
Ah... is that why? Saet-byeol, for example, had similar tastes to Shi-hyun and loved meat. She's been like that since she was little, so I guess it hasn't changed much now....
I also preferred meat to seafood.
"I see."
"Meat is good, but I want to eat sushi sometimes, too."
I didn't really agree, but Shi-hyun nodded as if he did.
"Okay, eat as much as you want when we get there."
"Yes!"
Seo-hui was very happy when we went to the revolving sushi restaurant near the studio.
"She eats well...."
She didn't discriminate and ate fish, shellfish, beef, and roe evenly. What was especially amazing was that she also ate pickled ginger and rakkyo well. She used to be a picky eater... it was really amazing. I can't even eat pickled ginger well, but it was really surprising to see Seo-hui eating it.
"You eat well."
"Grandmother, you should eat more, too."
Seo-hui said carefully because I wasn't eating much.
"I am eating."
I was just picking at my food because I didn't like seafood, but I didn't expect Seo-hui to worry. I didn't want to eat seafood, but there was another option at the sushi restaurant. It was beef sushi.
I ordered beef sushi separately from the sushi on the rail.
"Can you order separately?"
Has she never eaten at a revolving sushi restaurant before?
"Why, is there something you want to eat?"
Seo-hui nodded vigorously and mentioned expensive tuna sushi.
"Okay, when else would you eat it if not now?"
I ordered as much as Seo-hui wanted. And Shi-hyun's too....
"Shi-hyun-ah, eat some of this, too."
I handed Shi-hyun the beef sushi.
"Didn't you order that for yourself?"
"I'm full."
I felt full just watching my husband and granddaughter eat. I was so happy to see them eating so well.
When we finished lunch and returned to the studio, the kids who had eaten earlier were already there.
"Did everyone eat well?"
"Yeah! The tonkatsu was delicious."
Jun-seo boasted about eating tonkatsu. The parents... looked exhausted... Well, taking care of kids is a job. Yeon-u and Saet-byeol, who had to take care of their children, looked especially tired.
"Everyone looks tired."
"Ahaha...."
Saet-byeol smiled and took care of Seo-yeon. It was hard to do anything when you had kids at that age.
After resting for a while, the staff came and we continued shooting. We took pictures of each other, or with Shi-hyun and I.
It would have been nice if the shooting had gone smoothly... but unfortunately, there was a small problem. The little ones were suffering from food coma.
It was understandable for Yu-ri, who was 40 days old, but if Seo-yeon and Jun-seo started dozing off, there was no answer. We had to take pictures, but we couldn't take pictures if they were nodding off. But it was hard to force them to take pictures.
There was a way to take pictures of young Yu-ri or Seo-yeon while they were asleep, but it was awkward to take pictures of Jun-seo while he was asleep.
"I'm glad we took all the family photos in the morning."
"I know."
Jae-won sighed deeply as he looked at his sleeping son.
I was really glad that we had already taken the pictures with everyone in them. Jae-won and Yeon-u gave up taking pictures, which was a shame, and decided to just take pictures of Yu-ri wriggling around.
Looking at the lovely Yu-ri, that looked pretty good, too. After about 3 hours, the shoot was over.
We took so many pictures for a long time.
"Everyone worked hard."
The grandchildren were exhausted, and the adults weren't in good shape either.
"This is really something you can't do."
"I know, it's the first time since the wedding shoot...."
Wedding shoot... that was definitely hard, too.... Especially for women, who had to change dresses.
"But there were a lot of good pictures."
Even though it was hard, I couldn't help but smile when I saw the pictures. The pictures were so good that I wanted to take them all.
"Now we have to choose."
The shoot was over, but we still had work to do. That was choosing the photos to print! We could also choose the size, the frame, and make an album.
"Let's decide what we want to take."
We want to have all the kids' pictures, but the other kids won't.
"Let's just decide on one together."
I said that we should choose the pictures we took together. I had looked at them earlier, but it was hard to choose because there were so many pictures.
Kim Seo-bang and Jae-won, exhausted from the shoot, were taking the kids and dozing off.
"Everyone looks tired."
Saet-byeol smiled when she saw Kim Seo-bang.
"He said he worked a lot yesterday because he's taking a day off today, so it can't be helped."
"Really?"
"Yeah, he came in early yesterday."
Indeed, he must be tired. Seo-hui and Seo-a were clinging to Kim Seo-bang, so he couldn't rest properly. Is that the weight of the head of the household?
Shi-hyun was quietly looking at us from a corner away from the kids. I waved my hand slightly at Shi-hyun.
Shi-hyun raised his hand indifferently.
It took two hours just to choose the pictures. I really don't know why it's so hard to choose... Jae-won, who was watching from the side, said that we shouldn't just choose them roughly, and Shi-hyun didn't say anything, but he was giving off the vibe that he wanted to go back quickly.
"But we managed to choose them all somehow."
The pictures will be made according to the options we chose and sent to us later. By the time we finished everything and left the studio, the sun had set.
"Winter is winter."
The sun is already setting....
"I guess it's winter."
Shi-a came and held my hand tightly.
"Mom, did you have fun today?"
That's a sudden thing to say....
"Of course I had fun."
It was all happiness to see the grandchildren and the grown-up kids. It was so fun that I didn't even realize how time was passing. Of course, our husband seemed bored....
"That's a relief."
"Did you guys have fun, too?"
I said, looking at Saet-byeol and Jae-won.
Saet-byeol smiled, and Jae-won looked embarrassed.
"I guess it must have been boring for the men?"
"It's embarrassing to ask something like that."
I couldn't help but smile when I saw Jae-won grumbling. I wanted to talk to the kids more, but it didn't seem possible because the grandchildren were passed out.
"This is not the time for this, take care of the kids."
Seo-a and Ju-hee were staggering and unsteady because they were tired, and Jun-seo was already sleeping in Jae-won's arms.
There was no need to talk about Seo-yeon and Yu-ri. The only one who was okay was Seo-hui, who was older.
"Everyone looks tired, so go back quickly."
The kids all looked apologetic and prepared to leave. There's no need to be sorry.... After seeing the kids get in their cars and go home, we went home, too.
"Today was fun."
"Yeah."
I couldn't help but laugh when I saw Shi-hyun's indifferent expression.
"Ah, that was good...."
Will there be another day when we can get together like this? Will it be harder as the grandchildren grow up? And if we try to see them too often, it will be a nuisance to the kids.
When I got home, I suddenly felt tired, too. Still, I took care of my husband's meal and went to sleep.
Even I, an Awakener, am this tired, so how tired must the kids be? I'm worried.......
*
After resting at home for two days.... The pictures taken at the studio finally arrived.
"It's here! It's here!"
The box was very large, probably because I chose so many pictures.
"It's just pictures, why is it so big?"
Shi-hyun, who brought the box, was horrified.
"It's because I chose a lot."
The volume got bigger because I especially liked the frames and chose a lot of them.
"It's finally here!"
I wonder if the kids have arrived, too? When Shi-hyun brought the box inside, I immediately unpacked it. Then I saw the frames and the album.
I carefully unpacked them one by one, and they revealed their beauty. The first thing I unpacked was a large picture of the whole family. It looked good because I ordered an expensive frame.
"Isn't it too big?"
Shi-hyun said, looking at the size of the frame.
"But it turned out well."
It was a picture of our whole family, so it warmed my heart just to look at it.
"Well, it turned out well."
No one had their eyes closed, and the eye contact was a little disappointing, but we were looking at the same place properly....
"Let's put this in the living room."
It felt too big to put in the bedroom.
"Do whatever you want."
Shi-hyun took out the other frames and albums with a bothered expression and unpacked them. The frames kept showing pictures taken with the kids.
We took pictures together, but there were also versions with different outfits, pictures taken with Shi-a's family, pictures taken with Saet-byeol's family, and pictures taken with Jae-won's family separately.
"Why are there so many?"
"Ahaha...."
I unpacked and unpacked, but the frames kept coming out of the box. The size got smaller as we went on, though....
"Why did you take the kids' personal pictures?"
"They're pretty."
We weren't in them, but we also made frames of the pictures the kids took with their families.
"Where are you going to put them?"
"Well, I don't know?"
I printed them all out because I liked them... because I had a lot of money, but there was no space to display them.
"Ha...."
My shoulders drooped at Shi-hyun's long sigh.
"Sorry...."
"You're not going to touch your mother-in-law's room, are you?"
"I don't want to touch it if I can help it."
"And the guest room has to be kept ready for when the kids come?"
"Right?"
"It's a little hard to touch the study, too."
I don't go into the study, but Shi-hyun often reads books there.
"Is there only the second floor left?"
"Are you going to clean it up?"
"There are so many pictures and albums, wouldn't it be better to just turn it into a gallery?"
He suggested cleaning up the place we were using as a warehouse and turning it into a gallery. I felt sorry because it felt like things were getting out of hand.
When I finished taking out the frames and started taking out the albums, Shi-hyun's expression became even more bizarre.
"There are personal pictures of the kids, too?"
They were pictures of the grandchildren playing that the photographer had secretly taken. The kids' innocent looks came out so well that I couldn't help but make them into an album.
"Ahaha...."
"If we're going to display all of this, we'll have to clean up the whole room."
Shi-hyun grumbled but helped with the cleaning. And he helped decorate the room.
He's such a good husband?