Well it has happened! The day that I have most dreaded. The day this mother hoped would never come. And in the end…I survived it even better than I had thought I would.
Devon came to me 2 nights ago and asked me if he could get his ear pierced. There I said it! Yes, he came to me with the protection of his dear sweet cousin (Jenessa) and asked if he could mutilate his body.
It was the worst thought possible for me to think of my baby boy getting his ear pierced. On several occasions over the past 14 years I have thought of the possibility of him wanting one. For some reason it is just one of those things that I have never really thought was cool. Yes I realize that it is sort of a weird thing coming out of my mouth since I myself have a nose ring...And my 16 year old daughter has one as well. (I took her to go and get it for her 16th birthday) But that is different…isn’t it? Apparently not!
He and his cousin had planned to go over to a friends house that evening to do the dirty deed themselves. Being the good boy that he is, he decided that it was best to ask permission first. Good Boy Devon! (yes I am still in shock about that) As I have said it is something that I had thought might be a possibility and so I have pondered long and hard of how I might respond when the time came. A while back I decided that I would not fight the battles that really were unimportant. You know, things like hair color and pierced ears. (still have a problem with pierced lips and eyebrows though) After all I have dyed my hair for so long that I can’t even remember what the natural color is anymore and as I said I have a nose ring.
Well the evening was a bust for him as the friend couldn’t have them over and so this procedure began to take place at home instead. Jenessa got the ice cubes for freezing and Devon sanitized the earring as per his mother’s instructions. After ½ hour, and a lot of noisy commotion the 2 of them come out of the bathroom for a breather. The ear is not any closer to being pierced than it was before they began and all they had to show for it was a lot of melted ice. (Okay really it was a little bit pierced) Jenessa is frustrated with Devon and Devon is frustrated with Jenessa. Coming to the mom for a little direction (will they never learn?) they ask what to do. Well let’s just say to the shock and short discomfort on Devon’s part that the ear got pierced. So not only did I agreed to this barbaric thing but I think that I even did it for him! Now I look at my baby boy and wonder how he got me to be a part of it and think... What kind of a mother am I?
5 comments:
You are a hard-core, awesome mother!! Wow!!!!! You rock!
I could never pierce someone's ear. Eeeeew....
*giggle* All I could think of whilst reading your tale was the scene in Parent Trap where the one twin pierces the other twin's ear with an apple behind the lobe. Twin B screams like she's being murdered, Twin A screams along in harmony. Funniest part of the whole dang movie, IMHO.
Sorry, not laughing at Devon, really I'm not.
Anyway, you're a great mom. We know you are, your kids know you are and if that doesn't convince you .... well, I don't know what would. You're doing a SUPERB job, in fact.
(Come with me if I eventually get a tattoo?! I'm not real good with pain myself...)
So the other night at youth group, I was sitting with this cool kid I like, Devon> We were doodling didn't images of Tattoos. My only concern is how LARGE the piece is that he decided on. I'm getting Indian ink for next week...
Wen, that is awesome! I can't wait to see it. Do you remember sitting in at Tam's kitchen table, preparing my ear with a bag of frozen peas, and forcing a darning needle through my lobe? I sure never asked my mother if I could do it. In fact, I showed it to her when we were camping with a whole lot of people as witnesses, so she couldn't get mad at me. It was a second hole in my left ear; I still only have one hole in the right ear! I don't see any blogging on here about the other traumatic Devon night.
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