So, this morning, I stayed in bed and watched Disney Channel with my husband. To many of you, you will think this is totally lame. But to many of you, you will totally "get it".
We started out watching Girl Meets World. When my kids were young they all watched Boy Meets World, and as sappy as the show was, I can guarantee you, that many of my kids can still quote many of the Topanga and Corey lines from the series. It was a wholesome sitcom, that usually had a life lesson, imparted in the theme of the series, usually by Mr. Feeney, or Corey's Mom and Dad.. Girl Meets World, is a little more caricaturist, or over the top tongue and cheek, but I seriously love it! Its message is always of acceptance, perseverance, friendship, family, and yes...Love. In this series, the grown up Corey Matthews, (now a teacher married to Topanga) begins the show in a classroom setting with a teaching moment...a moment that takes an educational topic, and usually turns it into a life's lesson.
I watch the show, and absorb all the sappiness, and turn to my husband and say, why can't all life be like a Disney show. As I look over at him while watching the series....he too is feeling what I am feeling, and he will often say...."We've been married along time" meaning, we think alike and we feel alike. We are not living in a Disney series, and our life is far from perfect, but gosh darn it....we feel the Disney Magic. The magic, simply put is....we love Sappy Happy Endings, that come from sappy one liners, quotes from Disney shows, and the promise of what could be.
After we watched Girl Meets World, we watched the new Disney movie "Invisible Sister". Again another movie with a Happy Ending, and messages of acceptance, perseverance, friendship, family and Love. Is it so wrong to find simple joy from watching these programs? I think not. I wish all of us could find a little Disney magic in our lives.
My profession is being a Baby/Child Wrangler on photo shoots and videos. Watching the Disney movies and channel, has made for some wonderful conversations with the young children I work with. They get all excited about talking to me about the newest Disney movies and shows, and I remember back to when my children used to love all those programs as well. In their youth and excitement for those shows, I feel the Disney Magic, just as I still feel it today as an "Old" yet young at heart woman.
For my youngest child's College graduation, Donnie and I are taking all our children, our daughter in law and our new grandson to Disney....It has always been a magical place for our family, and though our children are all adults now, I hope to watch them and watch my little grandson all experience the Disney Magic....because I feel that Disney magic everyday, when I accept my children for who they are, watch them persevere through good times and bad, watch them with their friends from childhood and adulthood, love that they will often come for family dinners just to see each other, and most of all Love, because just like a Disney movie or series....Love is what makes the "Disney Magic"
