Spongebob to Sandy: Christmas Who?

There’s an older episode of Spongebob actually titled ‘Christmas Who?’ and my daughter and I love it because its where Spongebob learns all about Christmas and Santa from Sandy Cheeks the squirrel that resides in a glass bubble under the sea by Spongebob. Now the funny exchange they have goes something like this; Sandy lights a tree, Spongebob yells Fire! Sandy says “ain’t you ever seen a Christmas tree before/” and we get to the line “Christmas Who? Is she a friend of yours from Texas?” Well its quite funny and some of the expressions he makes are classic as he learns about “Chrrrrissstmasss”

Anywho I received an e-mail the other day and it was a poem like “Twas the Night before Christmas” it was pretty long so I will just summarize, it was all about how the government has taken the meaning out of Christmas, God out of schools and turned everything into a mockery with Winter break and Dream Trees. It isn’t something new either, when I hit Jr. High I remember them changing Christmas break and Easter Break to Winter and Spring, and I remember being in art class, our project was going to be a Christmas wreath, I remember the art teacher saying “If your family religion doesn’t celebrate Christmas or you don’t believe in Christmas we have an alternative project.” which just so happened to be a snow flake. The thing is we still were given a choice.

Fast forward to 1996, my son is about 10 and I begin to realize they no longer have Christmas decorations in the school, and they don’t have holiday parties. No Halloween with costumes so you can show them off before bundling up for Trick or Treat, no Christmas party with secret Santa gifts and cupcakes, no decorations of jolly old St. Nick or holly or reindeer or nothin’! Now its 2008 and people I talk to say this is the kind of thing that is happening everywhere, and not just that, they are trying to remove God from the pledge of allegiance? What’s going on?

The way I see it given enough time our children’s children or maybe grandchildren will be like Spongebob, Christmas Who? And I find that so sad for all the children, especially because my little girl loves Christmas and celebrating Jesus’ birthday, she even makes him a card each year and she was so proud in Kindergarten when she memorized the pledge of allegiance, and we talk about God and we share ideas about him.

See I am very lucky and so is my daughter, for apparently we have settled into our own little piece of nirvana. She wore her costume to the school Halloween party, and when I go there big as day on every class wall is the pledge of allegiance, God included, and every year they have a Christmas Tree and decorations everywhere and Santa visits and they have a real Christmas dinner the day of their Christmas party right before get this….there Christmas Break. And guess what? We have a very nice community, Carolers perform in the park and we have real sleigh rides around town, and people are friendly and kind, and we have virtually no crime, vandalism or violence. Hmmmm kind of makes me think this place I call home is the perfect place to raise a child right now because it sounds like the rest of this country is literally going to hell.