Today has been a great day, after a very ordinary night sleep wise we didn’t rise very early and would probably have stayed in bed longer but for receiving a message from my very good friend Nick asking if I would like to meet for coffee, it’s always a pleasure so I accepted and arranged to meet just over an hour later so it was a case of quick breakfast and get ready. It was great to see Nick and we spent a lovely couple of hours chatting then another quick change and head to our property in Nannup. We haven’t been over there for almost two months but all was well and it was good to see it all again and rekindled my desire to get on with building the house. We then went to visit our neighbours next door to drop off a carton of beer (as we always get offered a drink or two it’s good to have some in hand!) and a vase which had some beautiful flowers in that they gave me at my party, now I hadn’t had much time to get ready and didn’t give much thought as to what to wear but picked a really nice Zip front top and nice jeans, the first thing the neighbours said was “you look lovely ” it really made my day, I so love it being Stephanie, it has all become so natural, I don’t wear much makeup and don’t want to do, just a little eyeliner, mascara and lipstick and that’s me. To think that I stressed for years worrying about how hard it must be to “pass” and how people would stare at me and ridicule me for what I looked like but “slipping into womanhood” has been so easy for me, it just goes to prove that this was how it should have been, I should have always been a girl. Part of me regrets leaving it so long before doing anything about it but in reality, the time was right, everything fitted, I’m in the right head space with the right people around me, I have had the best support imaginable whether it be from health professionals or my wonderful circle of friends and my amazing partner and soulmate Denise who I love more and more each day, 2017 was definitely the year to become Stephanie!