This year has been like no other. This holiday season has been like no other, as we agonize over travel and who to celebrate with, try to shop locally while doing everything non-contact, and bake only for ourselves because anything we share has to be pre-wrapped.
As has become a new Christmas tradition, I’d like to share my parody holiday songs with you. Normally they are about teaching during the December holidays. This year, we add the extra layer of all that is pandemic and 2020.
I hope you can chuckle a little and make it through the last week before a much needed and even more-deserved winter break.
(PS -- I apologize that it’s all Christmas songs and no other holidays this year. I usually try to be more inclusive but this year, I literally could not make anything rhyme in any other songs. Auld Lang Syne, for example, is a hot mess. And Dreidel wasn’t working out for me either. I apologize. Instead, please enjoy Daveed Diggs (of Hamilton fame, singing Puppy for Hanukah and realize that I can do nothing to make that perfect song any more fun.)
Safe Christmas (to White Christmas)
I’m dreaming
Of a safe Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where there’s no virus transmission
And children listen
To when we ask masks to cover their nose, oh, their nose
I said, I’m dreaming of a safe Christmas
With every email that I write
May your kids be merry and bright
And may your temp stay a low Fahrenheit
I’ll Be Home for Christmas (to I’ll Be Home for Christmas)
I'll be home for Christmas
It might be just me
Please have pinot and cookie dough
Delivered right to me
Christmas eve will find me
Where there are no teens
I'll be home for Christmas
If only in stretchy jeans
Joy to the World
Joy to the world, the Break has come!
Let teachers! Receive! Their rest!
Let every teacher leave their classroom,
And don’t grade anything,
And don’t grade anything,
And don’t grade, and don’t grade, and don’t grade anything.
Joy to the world, rest teacher brains
Let parents watch their girls and boys;
While Canvas and emails, grades and gains
Can wait ‘til ‘21 to annoy
Can wait ‘til ‘21 to annoy
Can wait, can wait ‘til ‘21 to annoy
Flasky-Masky Christmas (to Holly-Jolly Christmas
)
Have a flasky-masky Christmas
It's the best time of the year
Well I don't know if there'll be ‘Rona
But have a cup of cheer
Have a flasky-masky Christmas
And when you walk down the street
Say hello to friends you know
And everyone from six feet!
Have a restful, safe winter break, my friends and colleagues. Thank you for everything you have done for our kiddos, day in and day out. You have been the normal in many of their upended lives and the love in many moments of stress. Go take care of yourself and enjoy your time off!
-Tracy