The Flamingos

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It’s been over a year in the making, but Olive’s flamingo tattoo is finally done. Feels good to get new ink again! I wanted to take a minute to explain the tattoo.

Some of you might not know but Olive went through a really hard year a while ago with her skin and eczema. She was bed ridden for a long while, had open sores all over her legs, and was just miserable. Praise God for His faithfulness, the team of Doctors who knew just how to help and the medicine she’d need, and everyone who prayed, she’s going on a year of being a happy, healthy little girl.

During her time being sick she had the opportunity to go on a 2nd grade, end of year field trip to the zoo. We knew she’d have just started her medication by then, but didn’t know how she’d be physically. But we paid for the trip and just prayed she’d be able to go. By the time the field trip came around she was finally doing much better and was able to go and when she came back the first thing she talked about was seeing the flamingos.

I’ve always liked to commemorate and memorialize God’s work in our lives and so the flamingo tattoo made perfect sense. Now when we see it, we’ll be reminded of a really, really hard time. There were lots of tears shed and a lot of panicked cries out to God. But more than the hard times, we’ll be reminded of God’s faithfulness and goodness in bringing us through it and our little girl getting to go to the zoo. And how happy she was to see flamingos.

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