Chapter 218 – Picnic (2)
27. Picnic (2)
Heheung~ heheung~ Heung~ Heung~ Heuh-yeah”
Cordia was happy with everything at this moment. It felt good to go on a picnic with my dad, mom and younger siblings, and it was nice to just roll around and run around completely outside, not inside the house or in the yard, and it was nice that the flowers in my hands were pretty, and I liked this place with those flowers. It was nice to be able to decorate it to my liking. And more than anything else, it was better to have her dad and mom who prepared all these things for her and her younger siblings.
“The red ones should be planted here and here.”
Cordia loved flowers. She may have it simply because the color is pretty, but rather than that, it was closer to liking the meaning of the flower itself.
– Cody. Do you know why flowers are beautiful?
– Um, the color and shape are pretty and the scent is good?
– That’s of course, but I think like this.
“Hanging yellow… I wish it was here. Huh. It fits well. Swimming.”
– Usually flowers only bloom once a year, for a few days.
– Yes? Why?
– Because flowers are masterpieces that this kid created with all his might.
“Hang white, like this.”
– A masterpiece, huh?
– Aren’t I pretty? Isn’t it beautiful? So please come to me and please love me This is how you show off and claim it with your whole body.
– Heh…
– I think flowers are beautiful because the result of doing everything for a short moment of love is flowers.
“Is there a pink one? Where to plant pink… ?”
– Mom.
– Yes?
– Still, wouldn’t all flowers be loved?
– What are you talking about?
– There are flowers that people look for a lot, and there are flowers that are not. Some flowers are famous, some are not.
– It makes sense. Could it be?
– Then.
– But Cody. Mom thinks so.
As Cordia planted and planted the colorful flowers, she remembered an old conversation she had with her mother.
– Even if no one recognizes it, I think beautiful things are beautiful things.
– Yes? What does that mean?
– Even if no one else is looking at you, if you did your best to overcome adversity and made something bloom and have no regrets… Because it has already become a beautiful flower and left its fragrance and traces in the world.
– … I do not understand.
– Whoops. Mom said something strange. Still, this flower is really pretty, isn’t it?
– Yes!
– It’s not as good as our Cody, but this flower is lovely too. Come on. I’ll put it in your ear
– Oops. Go, it’s ticklish.
‘A flower that resembles a mother.’
Still then, she didn’t fully understand it. Still, Cordia thought that her mother was the person most compatible with flowers. She’s pretty, elegant, calm, sweet, and smells good, so she’s a mom I always want to be near.
Her father is also the best and most loving person in the world, but when he sees flowers, he always thinks of his mother.
“Hey… It’s done… !”
Having finished planting her delightful flowers, Cordia stood up to admire her own work.
Sun made of red and orange flowers.
Four moons made of pale yellow and white flowers.
Four stars made of small flowers in between.
It was pretty. And her heart skipped a beat. I wanted to show it to my mom and dad and her younger siblings as well.
“Lol… Mom~ Dad~!”
What will mom and dad say?
Cordia was so happy.
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The daughters shouting that they will assemble it first are cute, and while the daughters are secretly taking pictures of them grunting and biting with the assembly parts, Cordia also runs and clings to them. Cestia was already caught in Cordia’s hands.
“Dad! Go over there!”
“Excuse me? What is that over there?”
“Hey, hurry up!”
It’s on her hands that Cordia makes a fuss like this. She played a joke for no reason, but if she did, Cordia would cry, so she obediently got up from her seat. Cestia was already looking at Cordia with a hearty smile.
As soon as she woke up, she pretended to overcome the cute pressure of her eldest daughter who held her hand tightly, and a small flower garden appeared that hadn’t been there before.
“And. What is this?”
“Lol. I made it.”
“My daughter?”
“Yes!”
“Yeah.”
Cordia’s work was difficult to treat as a child’s work, even though her child’s sensibility was revealed. She also played a part in the fact that the flowers that became the base were pretty, but she didn’t plant them just to see. In addition, the 4-year-old child seemed to have a better sense of aesthetics than me…
‘What was it like when I was 4 years old?’
She didn’t bother thinking about it. It was probably rude to Cordia to compare this work with my terrible drawing skills, which I first learned about in elementary school art class.
“Is this the sun?”
“Yes!”
“You can tell at a glance just by looking at it. Is this the moon?”
“Yes!”
“It’s pretty. You did it really nicely. But are there four moons?”
“Lol.”
What a cute and witty daughter-in-law.
I hugged Cordia. Cordia put one arm around my neck and started pointing at the flowers with the other.
“Yogi is mom, this is Kaya’s mom, there’s Shay’s mom, and there’s Illumina’s mom.”
“Oh oh? Why?”
“It’s just the color and shape that come to mind!”
Indeed.
They weren’t all the same color, they weren’t all the same shape or size. It was subtly different. I don’t know why Illumina is like that, Shay is like that, Kaya is like that, but she seems to know what her daughter wanted to say.
Because the moon that portrays Cestia, if you really just look at it, you get the feeling that this is Cestia.
I don’t know why either. Do you have a heart to heart with your daughter? Or, this… Art?
“And, this is me and my younger siblings.”
“Are they twinkle twinkle little stars?”
“Yes! They are little stars that shine brightly after eating mom and dad’s love. Lol.”
“Hey…”
As a father, is there anything that makes me happy? Are there any other words like this?
When she came to her senses, she found herself stroking Cordia’s hair and rubbing her face.
“Our daughter. Kiss!”
“Kiss~”
Side-
‘This is life.’
Wasn’t all the hardships and adversity I’ve been through so far for this moment.
“By the way, Cody. Of these four stars, who is Cody?”
Cestia, who was looking at me and her Cordia happily, asked, and Cordia, who kept her posture as she kissed my cheek, opened her mouth. She was vain
“Um, I haven’t decided on that.”
“Can I hear the reason? The mothers drew each one beautifully.”
“That…”
I was curious too.
The stars are very small compared to the moons. In fact, it looks like that when you look at the night sky, and comparing her wives and daughters physically and by the years they have spent, that is also true.
A delicate flower that looks like it will break if the wind blows hard.
However, the delicate and pure buds are so lovely that I want to protect them, four flowers.
Outwardly, there was no difference between the four flowers.
“We are still too young.”
“So?”
“Because she can be alone like her mom and her dad, and she’s not needed by another person. Rather, she should be protected by her mother and her father. So I didn’t decide.”
Hmm.
So, they are young, weak, and influential, so they didn’t decide who was who and planted flowers.
Something… I thought that Cordia’s thinking was deep enough to think this way, but she also thought that it was not something a 4-year-old would think.
“I understand what Cody is saying, but there is something wrong with Cody.”
“Yes?”
Sestia, who had been listening to her quietly, stroked the head of Cordia, who was still hugged by me, and she said.
“It makes sense that Cody and her beloved daughters should be protected by her father and mother. It’s natural. They protect animals until they can walk, run, and hunt alone. But Cody. Cody is something we cannot do without. She’s not what other people need, why did she think that? Her mother is so sad that Cody thought that way.”
“Uh, Mom. It’s not…”
“Not just Cody, but Rudy, Etty, and Vinnie. If you have any such thoughts, let them go. A mother tries to respect her daughters’ thoughts and opinions as much as possible, but that’s not the case. Cody?”
“Yes yes.”
“A child is a great joy and treasure to her father and mother just because she grows up healthy and smiles happily. She can’t stand alone, and it’s not that she’s of no help, she’s a treasure with limitless possibilities that she can do and become anything in the future. Therefore… I hope she doesn’t feel that way in the future. Have you ever lacked the love your father and mother give you?”
“Ugh! No Mom!”
Cordia was startled and shook her head violently. Cestia’s kind words made Cordia weep.
‘I had a similar thought, but I couldn’t have said it like Sestia… Is it the power of a mother full of maternal love?’
She naturally gave Cordia into her Cestia’s arms. Cordia sniffed and Sestia patted her on the back and whispered, “My daughter, I love you.”
“Sister hee hee! Look at this… Eh? Sister, are you crying?”
“Oh, no. I didn’t cry.”
“Your eyes are red?”
“Oh, I didn’t cry.”
“Cody unnie is a crybaby!”
“I said no!”
“Kyaaak!”
Pieta, who had assembled it wrongly and boasted that it had been put together properly, approached and teased Cordia when she cried. Cordia gritted her teeth and chased after the fleeing Pieta. The difference of one year in the running between the three and four year old sisters was staggering.
– Crying! Take good care of yourself
– Tell me you didn’t cry!
– Don’t cry! Don’t cry!
– Who didn’t cry?
– Sister!
– Good.
“I guess I wanted to see something like this.”
“I can’t really say that, but… I won’t deny it.”
“Eugene.”
“Huh?”
“Since our Cody expressed us so beautifully, why don’t we express our daughters too?”
“Oh. That’s a good idea.”
Is there a law that says the stars are always small and shine dimly?
In fact, stars are huge enough to be incomparably larger than the sun and the moon.
