The Christmas after I left my parents home for good I wrote out my list and mailed it to the North Pole, like I had every year. For the first time in my life, Santa Claus did not come. It took some time to make peace with this fact. While attending college I still went home for holidays and summers and Santa kept delivering. Apparently, once you graduate and fully move out of your parent’s home, Santa is made aware, likely via Christmas magic, and considers you an adult unqualified to receive gifts. I am mostly over this unpleasant reality, though it still stings a little. But what came next is simply wrong.
Since my child could speak, we have made a list of requested toys and sent it off to the NP. And since we started this tradition, my kid has received exactly zero gifts from Santa. Every Christmas is full of dashed hope and fresh tears as we realize we have been snubbed yet again by Saint Nick. Christmas is salvaged to a degree because, as loving and dependable parents, my wife and I always get the child some presents to compliment the haul Santa is supposed to deliver. This Christmas was particularly brutal because my kid had asked for some expensive video games I both wanted to play and didn’t want to purchase myself; but as always – nothing.
Have any other parents encountered this? Does Santa Claus have a blacklist that my family somehow ended up on? Could it be because he knows I don’t believe in god? My kid is growing up without fully knowing the magic of Christmas and kids at school are beginning to make jokes about the kid Santa hates. Is it possible my wife is Jewish but doesn’t know it? (She is always wearing a yamaka but that’s just to cover her bald spot.) We are really at the end of our rope and no inquiries we have sent to the North Pole have been returned. Anyone who can help is entitled to 10% of what the Easter Bunny brings this year.