Thanks to Calli, I am participating in the Ink Me 2009.
I have already posted my first tattoo (pictured here), but the explination didn’t accompany it. Mostly because that tattoo is fairly self-explanitory, Fil and I got the same tattoo (a triquetra blended with a heart) to symbolize our past, present and future and that our love is linked to them all. Insert “awwww” here.
My second tattoo was a bit more of a thought process, I spent a long time searching for something that I felt deeply about. Naturally, it turned out to be a Celtic knot (how can I not have my body decorated with the history I find myself so deeply connected to?) that symbolized motherhood.
Motherhood Knot
The little purple dot is Monster’s Celtic birthstone. I realise the ink looks poorly done, and it’s mostly due to my skin. Most of the ink got pushed out, and it needs to be hit again, hopefully by a different artist (perferrably female, since it’s on my chest) and such. It means a lot ot me, because there is loads of space to add more dots for more children.
I’ve noticed that in a lot of body ink renditions, the dots are placed on the outside of the heart. For me? I put him in my heart because he will always be there with me, on my skin and in my heart. (Insert louder, longer “aaaawww”)
Now, onto Monster’s first day of 6th grade.
He’s at a special school here in town, a Science Academy, that (so far) is requiring a lot from us. He needed special kinds of clothes (navy blue or khaki pants/shorts, grey shorts/shirts for gym) and loads of expensive school supplies. We’re flummoxed because said school is supposed to cater to lower economic status families like ours. Since we’re strapped for cash LMIL sent us $100 to get him school clothes and supplies, but we could only afford a few pairs of pants and the cheapest supplies we could find.
It sucks that we’re so strapped for cash, but luckily we had enough for new socks and undershirts (it’s wonderful that he has to wear a uniform polo, even if they were $18 each… THANKS DAD!) but that was about it. I’m keeping my fingers crossed hoping he doesn’t come home with loads more supply needs.
Perhaps the thing that made Fil most livid was that he was pulled aside and given a warning for wearing the wrong colour of navy blue (EVEN THOUGH I saw other kids wearing the SAME shade and another one wearing blue jeans!) even though we stood in front of the principal and he said nothin’!
But, what made me the most angry was that he didn’t get to eat breakfast, because the cafeteria was closed all morning and they were painfully late with lunch. My kid was so ravenous that he ate 8 chicken fries and rice and veggies for dinner. I plan on feeding him breakfast tomorrow and every day until I’m sure that school has their ass on right.
First day of 6th grade!!
He’s pretty cute, huh? And I know his belt is on all wrong, but I didn’t realise it until I got home and glanced over the picture. I hope he figured it out!
In other news, I still am jobless. My parents have helped a lot with bills and are going to help with rent, but if I can’t land a job soon we’re going to have to move to Michigan to live with LMIL until we can get on our feet. Fil’s mom managed to land me a job and we’d have the option of finding a cheap home up there. It’s definitely not something we want, but we may just have to resort to it. Bleh.
