get my first tattoo

This is something I have wanted to do for a really long time. I just have never really thought of anything that I would like to adorn myself with for the rest of my life. However, in the last few years, that has all changed. There are two things, that I really wanted to get tattooed on me: (1)my son, is something that I want to have on me for the rest of my life. He brings light to even the darkest of times, and is such a wonderful, little man. The hard part is determining how I want to have him immortalized on me. I have looked at his zodiac symbol, his birth stones and flowers, his chinese astrological symbol, as well, I was thinking about trying to incorporate his cultural identity into this. So, I have a million little pieces of ideas that I really want some help putting together.
I really wanted to do this with my wife, who already has several tattooos, and I feel would be a huge help on helping me streamline my thoughts. Right now though, a tattoo is the last thing I need to be discussing with my wife, in light of everything else that is going on in our lives right now. Plus, Christmas is coming, and cash is not overly abundant, so I am putting this off until the new year, when I can pool some off my overtime funds that I will pull in for working Christmas day, Boxing day and New Year’s day—double time and a half baby for each of those days. Woo hoo. Those three days alone are probably plentiful in terms of being able to pay for a very sweet tattoo. (2) the other thing I wanted to get tattooed was not so much a design, but rather, a shared tattoo with my wife. She and I had actually spoken about this during the past summer, and she seemed a little uncertain (now I really know why), but when we were banging around a few ideas, we had actually (I thought) come up with something that we both thought we could do for one another. We haven’t spoken about this since, and as I am presently waiting to find out how the most dramatic chapter of my life to date is going to pan out, it hasn’t really been something I have had at the front of my mind. If things really do work out between she and I, then maybe this is something I will approach her with again.