Prodigyrls, the beginning

Everyone always asks us how our group came up with our name.  Janelle, Sienna, Joy and I have been BFFs since kindergarten.  Last summer when Sienna had her birthday sleepover we decided our group needed a name.  We had just finished watching the movie Grease and the girlfriends in that movie had a name, the Pink Ladies.  If they had a name then we needed one too.  

We must have come up with 100 names and none of them sounded right.  Sienna's mom asked us what message we were trying to convey with our name.  Message? I didn't know we had to have a message.  She said a smart group of girls had to have a smart name.  Joy shouted out "prodigy." That was it, prodigy + girls = Prodigylrs! We replaced the second "i" with a "y" for a special twist.

I grabbed a notebook and we each signed in under our new name, Prodigyrls.  We spent the night going over the rules of our group. Most were rejected, in the end we came up with one rule, HAVE FUN! Anyone could join the group as long as a) they are a girl and b) they promise to have fun.

In the morning we shared our rules with Sienna's mom and she said she only had one thing to add.  She wanted each one of us, and all future members, to write their dream next to their name.  "I want you guys to have fun, but I also want you to support each others dreams." Huh? It was easier to just do it than to fight it.  We passed around the notebook until each one of us had written our dream.

Mine was easy, I wrote doctor.  Sienna's was a no brainer, soccer.  Joy announced she wanted to be a judge.  Janelle took the longest to write her dream.  I was not surprised though when she wrote chef.

That's it.  That was the very beginning.