However, we did go out of our way to have always told our children, from cradle to now, that Santa is a fun game that parents love to play with their children, that they should enjoy the tradition, leave out the cookies, unwrap the presents from Santa (that your mom and I paid for), and should never "spoil the fun" for kids whose parents want to play the game for real with their kids. We do this so our loving, trusting, beautiful, innocent children don't have to have their illusions about Santa smashed with an ax one day when they finally get smart enough to figure out the truth, only to discover that their supposedly loving parents have been lying to them. I don't want my kids thinking, "Gee, if they lied about this Santa guy, what about Jesus?"
Fun is fun, games are games, play them and enjoy them. But my kids won't oneday believe I lied to them. I'd rather they focus on the real "reason for the season".
And Merry Christmas to you and yours! :)