What tattoo do you want and where would you put it?

So this is the thing….this is why I never ever got a tattoo, until last year. How do you possibly get an original tattoo?? Something NOBODY else has! I could never see myself getting those stereotypical images on my skin. A flower, a tree, a skull, a snake, a happy face, a Chinese symbol, a cartoon character, no no no!

So what would be original? My kids’ names? Yeah maybe, but do I like that idea? No.

They love the idea, “Mom do it! Get our names tattooed on your back!”

Um no thanks, not my jam. I love my kids more than anything on earth but I just don’t want to wear their names.

Forty five years I existed on this planet and spent the middle twenty of it thinking I would eventually get a tattoo but where and what? And so I just never did. I decided I was going to be one of the few people left on this earth who die tattoo-less.

Then my daughter’s friend brought over her poke ‘n stick set. She had tattooed the letter “S” on my daughter’s ring finger. I loved it. I decided I needed something similar that exact moment.

And so I got a tattoo. That exact moment. “CNJB” on the inside of my ring finger. My partner’s initials.

I do love it. I feel like I want more tattoos and I’m worried once I get started I won’t stop but then I remember what?? And where??

And it’ll probably be another forty five years before I get my next one.