Pierced

Lately Maddy has really been showing that she could handle more responsibility. She's really getting into the groove of things when it comes to school, extra-curriculars and taking care of herself. Josh and I felt that perhaps it was a good time to let her to pierce her ears. She has shown interest in the past and at first the answer was always, 'when you're bigger'. At the same time, we didn't want to wait too long. We have certain conditions she needs to abide by before she was allowed to take the plunge and we felt like if we waited too long, following those conditions would be more of a struggle/fight between us and her desire to be independent of us. So on the weekend we did.

I have to say that I was nervous. I woke from a bad dream about her and couldn't get back to sleep. Then when we got to the location, I was finally ready to 'just do it'. Only we found out the piercer wasn't available until two hours later. Ahhhh, more time for my stomach to twist in knots. Maddy? She was fine. At least she didn't seem to show any concerns and was her normal self. Finally, when it was time it was quite a nice experience. All four of us were in the room and able to cheer her on. She came through like a champ. Actually, the piercing was WAY easier than pulling her teeth! No tears at all.

As you can see, we didn't go to Claire's or a beauty salon. We opted instead to go to a tattoo/body piercing place on Granville St. I wanted to add this in because in my research, it was really hard to find anywhere else besides places like Claires/beauty salons and there certainly weren't any reviews of piercings they did on young children at tattoo/piercing salons. Everyone who worked there were super nice and they explained everything to us and what to expect. As you can imagine, nothing shouts "Out Of Place!" like us four Blommesteins in a Tattoo joint, but the people were extremely nice and very knowledgeable. Maddy was pierced by a women named Adrianna and she was awesome.