While driving in the car the other day, we were listening to a song on a new CD I won 
, and I was singing along to the song, and then checked to see who sang the song, and the kids already knew. “Oh, she’s on Disney channel, mom.”
Well, isn’t that great. Somehow our conversation turned to something like this:
Me: Well, Jenna, you’ll have to get your own show on the Disney channel, and then you, too, can record songs and be rich and famous. And I can be your manager.
Jenna: What would my show be?
Me: I don’t know. What WOULD your show be about?
Jenna: Something with dogs. Lots of dogs.
Me: And you could call it “Josie and the dogs”. Because you never use your real name, you have to have a character name.
Jenna: Then I want my name to be Chrissy.
Me: OK, Chrissy it is. Chrissy and the dogs? Chrissy’s dogs? Let’s think about that.
John: And I will be her neighbor.
Me: Ok, John. What will your character’s name be?
John: Joe. And I’ll like help her with the dogs and stuff.
Natalie: And the dogs can have superpowers and stuff.
Jenna: Where are we going to get all the dogs for this show?
Me: Well, that’s something you let the director worry about.
They kept asking questions and coming up with more ideas for “their show”, and I didn’t have the heart to tell them that this is all hypothetical and it’s NEVER going to happen, but I was glad that it at least got their brains thinking. And who would I want to play in this little show? I’ll play Chrissy’s other neighbor, the broadway star who is always rehearsing for a show.
Cute idea to get them going imagining that stuff. Good mother that you are!!!
And I’ll be the cranky neighbor “Vern”, who hates all their dogs and tries to trap them in their lies. 🙂