I’ll explain this later
but I just wanted to get it down while it was still fresh in my head…
Talking to Shelby & Annie while they were in the tub. Had just read post on the family board about the tattoos (that’s what I’ll explain in a bit). I said to them, “So, do you think I should get a tattoo”.
Shelby: A permanent one?
Me: Right, a permanent one (I’d already told them a little bit about this tattoo party)
Shelby: Yeah, if you want. You get to decide.
Me: Right, I get to decide.
Shelby: I think I know a little bit why it’s hard for you to decide. Remember how you told me that your dad had a permanent tattoo? Well, I think that you want to get one because you liked him and you want to remember him. But, I think that you are afraid that it will hurt.
Me: You are one very smart kid
I also explained that I wanted to do it because it would be cool for us all to have the same thing, connecting us together. And, also that I wasn’t sure if I wanted a picture permanently on my body. But, how clever of him to remember that about my dad (it was ages ago that I told him) and to see that having one myself would be a way of honoring him.
