When Liz sat me down to tell me about the severity of her
cancer she said to pass along the message that each of the rest of our 4 girls
needed to make the choice as to whether we were going to get a tattoo in her
honor or name a child after her. Since
children are unpredictable…being able to have one/what gender they’ll turn out
to be/when they might come along, we all chose tattoo.
15 years ago at the cusp of our 18th birthdays
Danielle, Liz and I were checking out a local tattoo shop and we thought it
would be fun to all get roses on our ankles.
Dee and Liz found ones they liked and did it. I changed my mind. So when
Liz mentioned the tattoo, I knew I needed to live up to my abandoned rose tattoo
promise. The quest for what to get and where didn’t take long. When chatting about the tattoo promise with
my friend Jax, she jokingly said that each of the 4 of us should get an
Elizabethan collar of jewelry tattooed across our clavicles. While that particular thought was a little
extreme, I did love the idea of carrying Elizabeth with me in that sort of way,
so I googled Elizabethan Rose. I found
an image that I fell in love with and made the appointment at Lefy's Tattoo in Orange where the "Rose" conversation happened 15 years ago. Below is the final piece featuring 5 roses,
one for each girl in our amazing group of 5 ladies.
Liz, Noel, Amy and my husband Michael accompanied me on this
adventure. Liz did a wonderful job of keeping me entertained with talk of her upcoming wedding.
Right now we're waiting on news of when her chemo will start and focusing on getting all the things we need to get done for her wedding which has been moved up to May. Yay wedding!
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