Marital Talk

I’m taking the lazy way out on this one.  I talk to an old friend earlier tonight through text messages while getting my birthday present.  What did I get?  I got a tattoo.  No, I am not kidding.  Yes, I most certainly did get a tattoo.  We rarely celebrate adult birthdays in our family.  The kids?  Oh yea, they get a great party with lots of presents.  But, I can’t remember the last time my husband and I bought and exchanged presents for our birthdays, anniversary’s or even mothers and fathers day.  So, since my birthday fell during the week or our vacation, I suggested we do something that we’ve both talked about at some point and time and call it this years birthday/anniversary/mother’s-father’s day gifts.  What was it that I wanted so terribly bad?  A tattoo.  Yea, I’m not kidding. 

Here’s mine, it is on my shoulder so that I can still wear some of my sleeveless outfits that I consider to be "dress up" without anyone actually seeing the tattoo (sometimes you know, you just need to be really somber and my tattoo is nothing near somber) but in just regular everyday sleeveless clothes, it will peek out and people should be able to see it.  And, if they don’t, I don’t care, I got it for me, not the world anyway. 

Here’s a picture of my little gem…..

My husband is gone now to get his.  He is getting an American Bald Eagle with red, white and blue stripes on it.  Since we are on vacation, we had to take turns going to the parlor because we didn’t want to take the kids along.  I’m not sure when he will return, his should take longer than mine since it costs substantially more and looked quite more detailed.  Money wasn’t really the issue, we picked out what we wanted and that was the end of that.

When I started writing this, I had planned to tell you something entirely different, but I’ll save that for another day. 

So, what do you think? 

Would you and your spouse do something like this? 

Does your family have a big celebration for the adults like they do for the kids?

Do you and your spouse make a big deal out of your anniversary and mother’s and father’s day?

Tell me what how you celebrate as a couple.