My mum and I generally have a great relationship, in fact she is probably one of my best friends.. Anyway, yesterday mum and I were out having coffee and she noticed that I obviously had something on my mind. I will admit I have been thinking of how to tell her, but I was far from ready to do it. Anyway, she did the usual thing and asked me what was up.. I tried to pass it off as just having a few things on my mind, nothing serious.. She wouldn't accept this as an answer.. In fact she kept picking away at it, as she sometimes does.. After about 10 minutes of this I was a little snappy and turned around to her asked "How does the idea of having a daughter instead of a son grab her?" and went on to explain myself a little better and give some examples from my life that might help her understand.. After all, she caught me dressed as a girl twice when I was 12 or 13 and found girls clothes in my room a number of times when I was a teen..
She was quite surprised, but did seem to recover reasonably quickly.. She then asked me if I had thought about my name.. Which I have, but I was a little stunned about what I'd just blurted out and said I hadn't really.. She said if I'd been born a girl my name was a toss up between Sibella or Penelope, so maybe I'll adopt one of those as a second name because I don't have on yet.
We have arranged to go shopping on Saturday, so I imagine I'll get a few more questions then.. But at least she wants to see me..
