I think we get comfortable in our own skin and forget what we get used to others find different. Often when I am going out wearing a dress or skirt I wear a wig, unless I am going to work. Last Friday I forgot and realized that it probably wasn’t the best of decisions.
Last Friday I ended up taking my girls to their dentist in Dallas for a regular checkup. I dress business casual for work usually a dress or skirt. On Friday I wore a long floral skirt and pull over top. When I arrived at my girls school they asked who I was there for I let them know. The school had me wait in the principals area. I usually make a deal out of it and want to go back and get them but today I waited for them. As I was sitting their people dropped by the principal is going through year three with me so she knows what to expect. The new staff are taken aback. The secretary who went to get them asked me who I should let them know if picking them up. I advised I was their Dad. She was surprised my girls call me Dad, I asked what they were suppose to call me she advised Mom or Aunt. I advised I was not their Mom nor their Aunt I was their Dad. She let the girls know I was their and go back with them. Reagan wanted me to meet her class I decided not to. As her class knows her dads wears dresses. I let her know some other day. Johnna arrived a few minutes later and we headed to the dentist.
While there are a lot of quality dentists in the Greenville Texas area my daughters dentist is in Dallas we interviewed 3 or 4 dentists to find one they liked and one I liked. We arrived early and ended up waiting about 20 minutes before they went back. While their dentist is used to seeing me the other parents are often surprised. One of the mothers waiting was Jillian her son Colten was going back as I was waiting. Jillian and I made small talk we both had six years olds and had a lot in common. She was very pleasant and asked me alittle about be and called me brave. I asked her why she said I was brave she let me know I was transitioning and living my life while having a 6 year old at home. I appreciated the compliment but let her know I wasn’t brave for transitioning. She thought I was brave because I was doing this while having a six year old as her six year old says whatever comes into his head I reassured her Reagan is the same way and I have had some pretty embarrassing moments. I told her about the pink helmet incident. More than one time when we will go shopping for her she will ask if they have a dress in her dads size. We talked about hobbys we have outside our kids I let her know that I play in a softball league and she was in a cooking club. She encouraged me to join her cooking club and I encouraged her to join a softball league. She enjoyed clubs because it gave her adult time and gave her husband father son time. I enjoy the adult time as well.
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