Tattoo Shopping

 First, I want to start by saying thank you for all of your well-wishes while I was down in the dumps!  My mouth healed nicely from the wisdom teeth being torn from my skull.  Now I just have food-collecting holes in my mouth that is not only annoying but totally gross!  My second dose of chemo went wayyyy better than the first!  NO side-effects at all so I am guessing that the crippling headache I had with the first dose had more to do with my wisdom teeth being pulled.  I am a little nervous about this week's dose because I have to double it but I feel confident that it won't be too bad.  Thanks again for thinking of me!  (In case you have not read previous posts, the chemo is for my LUPUS!  I do NOT have cancer, thank GOD!!!)

The time has come again. The time when I have forgotten how bad the last tattoo hurt and that I vowed I would never get another one....when I vowed that THIS tattoo is my last.

I am in the market for my 8th tattoo.  My husband thinks I am nuts.  I am slowly remembering the pain involved but I am in that frame of mind I know all too well...there is no turning back now.  I have my mind set.  Now I just need to finalize what I want.  It is a toss up.

I have one tattoo that is the most special to me.  It is on my left shoulder blade.

The big hearts have my children's names and their birthdays are in the little hearts.

I absolutely LOVE this tattoo!!

I considered my next tattoo to be placed on the right shoulder blade.  It would be a black and white tat of Jesus with His crown of thorns on His head, facing the cherub tattoo.  The only color in the pic would be Jesus's blood.  Around the pic would be a lyric from Silent Lucidity by Queensryche.  

If you open your mind for me you won't rely on open eyes to see.

I love that line so much!  I have faith that God exists and I don't need to see Him to believe it.  I see His work all around me!

My only concern about doing that is that the location makes it very difficult to follow through with the after care of the tattoo because I can't reach it all.

My other idea (the one I will probably go with) is my children's foot prints under the cherub with angel wings on them and along-side of them, it would say, 

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above ~James 1:17

I am soo excited about this one and I want to go today!  The problem is that as much as I love the snot outta my kids, apparently, I was not good at all at keeping up the baby books!  I CAN'T FIND THE LITTLE BUGGERS' FOOTPRINTS ANYWHERE!  I know I have them somewhere in this house because I would NEVER throw them away!  I think I know where they would be...in one of the million "kid bins" I have in the basement.  Since I won't rest until I find them, I guess the rest of my day will be spent down there searching.  UGH!

So, what is everyone else up to these days???