The Great Holiday Mix-Up

Greyson's class is learning about holidays from all over the world this week.  They are doing a special emphasis on Chanukah because Quinn in Greyson's class (ah yes the irony of Greyson's best friend in school being a boy named Quinn) is Jewish (more on this later).  Every night he is so excited to tell me the different facts he has learned but I think he may be getting a couple of things mixed up.  Here is his description of Chanukah.

"This guy named Peter has this boat that he sails from England and goes to all of the countries around the world, except here because Santa comes here.  In his boat he has St. Nicholas and a helper who wears a purple coat and has dark skin.  They ram the boat up on the shore to deliver presents.  He can ram the boat up on shore because the front of his boat has this bulldozer thing that can help get it up on land.  After he gets out of the boat he puts on this pointy hat and gets on a white horse and goes off to deliver toys to all the Jewish boys and girls.  If they boys and girls are bad they don't get coal like we do, Peter's helper chases them around with a stick."

Now I am not a Jewish scholar by any stretch of the imagination but I don't think that a single syllable of that is actually true.

But what is even funnier is how excited Greyson is to learn about Chanukah because of his friend Quinn.  He has come home every day to tell me some of these odd tidbits about Chanukah he has learned from Quinn.

Today I happened to run into Quinn's mother while picking up my Quinn as her other son goes to the same preschool.

"Greyson is so excited to be learning about Chanukah this season and celebrate the holiday with Quinn."

At this point, Christina burst into laughter and promptly told me that they are, in fact, Catholic and she has no idea why Quinn is going around telling everyone he is Jewish.  And the only reason she knew about this was because their teacher happened to see her in the car pool lane one afternoon and told her they were doing a special section on Chanukah just for Quinn.

So now I don't know what parts of my son's crazy Chanukah stories have come from Quinn just making things up or getting confused with other holiday traditions.

What I do know is that he loves Chanukah and I can't wait to hear all about Kwanzaa.