Veronique, my wife, was in the process of capturing this for posterity when I arrived home tonight, it's Lowan and Kaelens' current understanding of the "true meaning of Christmas" that they apparently heard about in school today.
It's special so I'm copying it here too:
Mommy, you know, when we celebrate Christmas, we don’t celebrate the birth of Santa Claus, or the reindeers' birthday. We celebrate the birthday of baby Jesus.
Baby Jesus was a very famous man when he growed up. He was born in a pile of hay. He was born in the ball of hay because there were too many other people sleeping in the regular beds. They walked to the farm where the ball of hay was. There was also donkey carrying a lady who was full of heaven. Heaven is the place where God lives. The donkey had a dream: he dreamed that he was carrying a castle and a sailboat and a rose, and a lady full of heaven. And there were angels standing all around the flower, the rose and the donkey. They knocked on the doors but no one was there and then they finally found a cave to go in and then the man whispered to the donkey ‘come come donkey’, and then they heard the crying inside and when they saw it, it was baby Jesus. All the animal watched baby Jesus being born. Baby Jesus, when he was a grown up, wrote a book that was called the Bible.
The Nativity according to Lowan and Kaelen Hansel. December 16 2009.
