Or maybe another piercing?
I was at my mom’s Sunday night (see the previous post on yumminess) and she said she’d been thinking about mother-daughter things for us to do together. She felt like we’d missed out, and wanted to make up for lost time. She surprised me by saying she’d been thinking about tattoos, since I hadn’t told her about my thoughts. But I guess a friend of hers (my mom’s age) and her daughter (my age) had gotten tattoos together as a bonding exercise, and it had gotten my mom thinking.
She said she’s not really excited about getting a tattoo (although we both joked that, after the amount of hair removal we’ve done, the pain of a tattoo can’t possibly compare). But she did say she had been thinking about getting another piercing on each ear, and that we could do that together (each get a second piercing) as a bonding experience.
More broadly, my mom said she has been feeling like certain things – shopping, the way we talk about relationships, spending more time together – are things that have changed as I’ve transitioned, but aren’t really ‘events’ that mark passage of time. But getting piercings together would be some specific, lasting thing that we could do together.
This also fits with a comment Jessica made on a previous post, asking how I can think about things I would have done growing up as a girl, rather than thinking about things that a stereotypical ‘adolescent girl’ would do.
When my mom suggested getting matching piercings, I laughed and said I’d actually been thinking about getting a tattoo (and explained my reasoning) but had also been considering getting another piercing. I told her I wanted to sleep on it, but really liked the idea and was pretty sure it sounded good to me. And, a few days later, I’m still feeling the same way.
Themocracy
Liz and her mom got tattoos together. I think for her mom’s 50th or some other monumental occasion. While I love my tattoos and want a 3rd, a piercing could be a fun, non permanent activity.
I love that Liz and her mom got tattoos together.