Telling the kids?

We've been through this recently. The kids had seen me dressed a few times for Halloween and other costume events. They didn't know that it was something I did otherwise. A few months back, though, I decided to go ahead and have the talk with my daughter (14 yrs old). She seemed to take it very well. She asked a few questions, I answered them, and then the subject was dropped and didn't come back up.

My son (9 yrs old) had made some negative comments about me dressing for Halloween, so I was reluctant to talk to him about it yet. That became a barrier to me being able to go out to events dressed up. If he wasn't supposed to know, then I could hardly walk out the door past him wearing a dress. That became too constricting. Last week, I decided he was going to have to get used to seeing me dressed up. I still haven't really talked to him about it. I just said that I was going out and would be dressing up as a woman. It didn't seem to bother him. I couldn't give him goodnight kisses with my makeup on, but we blew each other kisses and he was fine with it. I went out Monday and Tuesday, and haven't gotten any negative feedback from him yet.

On Tuesday, though, my daughter, who I had thought was so cool about it, giggled her head off, didn't want to look at me, and told me she wished I wouldn't do that in front of them. Knowing her as I do, I didn't take what she said too seriously. I just reminded her of Thumper's Rule. On Monday, as I was getting ready to head out to the club, she had told me that she couldn't wait until she was old enough to go to places like that. I interpret the two opposite reactions as evidence that she is mostly a prude but aspires to be a little wild now and then. In other words, she's her father's daughter. :)