Do You Know What I Know?

Before Christmas, Mn came home from school with the lyrics for “Silent Night” and “Joy to the World.” He was supposed to ask his parents to help him memorize the lyrics, but, he said, “I’ll have to teach you the songs, Mom, because you don’t know them.”

I told him that I did indeed know these songs. Very well. He looked at me with a cynical expression that is the spitting image of his father’s, and asked me to prove it. I started singing “Silent Night.” Mn’s eyes just about bugged out of his head. “Mom! How do you KNOW that?????” Laughing, I then belted out “Joy to the World.” Mn just about fell out of his chair in shock. “Mom, did you come to my school and hear us singing?”

No amount of explaining could convince the child that these songs actually existed in the “olden days” of Mom’s childhood.