The Couple That Suffers Together Stays Together

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Three years ago when I gave birth to my youngest daughter I was understandable in pain. And my husband not wanting to miss out on the action had to go and fall on ice on the stairs the day after we came home from the hospital. This gave him one heck of a bruise and a whole lot of soreness. We were quite the couple for those days and weeks following our daughter’s birth as we were both healing.

Well, we couldn’t possibly make that the only time we shared pain. Today we both got inked. And while our soreness is far different and not nearly as bad as it was that day three years ago we have been quite the sight today.

It likely didn’t help that we literally spent the entire day getting inked. I went first and as soon as I was done it was my husband’s turn. And some 6 1/2 hours later we were done, we were exhausted, and we were sore. Not to mention starving. We couldn’t help but joke that we like to be in pain together.

My husband still has more work to be done on his so he will be on his own when that happens, I think. But what a way to start out the week. I have been mostly unreachable today. Totally anti-social media social. But I did something I have been wanting to do for the last four months.

Remember how I shaved my head for childhood Cancer on my birthday last year? Well, once I was clean shaven and was looking at the pictures my mother took of the whole thing I noticed that my neck was missing something. No, not the hair I had just shaved off, but some color. I pictured a tattoo resting on the nape of my neck. I thought a rainbow, but the more I gave thought to it the more I thought it should represent that day and what I did. I needed to commemorate that in some way.

And I could have just put a gold ribbon there, but I wanted more. I decided that Peace Frogs (something that those who know me know has been an important part of my life since I was a child vacationing with my family in VA Beach) was what needed to go there. So we began talking to our tattooist about this.

Now I’ll admit, this didn’t go exactly as I had pictured it. First of all the picture needed to be a little larger than I had wanted and second of all, one of the things I was afraid of, a few moles on my neck made placing a tattoo right on the nape of my neck not feasible. We had to go down a little. That’s okay though because I absolutely love it.

This is not my first tattoo, but it has been a while since I have been inked. And it is my largest tattoo, but it’s so fitting and perfect. So that was my day today. I got to spend it with my husband. We are exhausted now, but both very happy.

What do you think of my memento from my head shaving day?