I am just gonna drop this here.
I love this cool visualization of Santa Claus' Christmas Eve trip as seen from space but, with the current laws of physics, we know he wouldn't be able do
gizmodo.com
Yeah but you dropped that scientific info on some closed minds, baby, even though it was pretty hilarious!
See no one gets to take Santa Claus out of my belief systems. I still leave a plate of cookies on the kitchen counter on Christmas Eve, as I wrap the last of a handful of generic gifts for those situations like "oh i didn't realize you were bringing your college roommate along to our gathering but hey, more the merrier!"
(And then I eat the cookies, in case Santa doesn't have time later, and then I go bed).
Even now I'm preparing to put a little lump of charcoal in a tiny Christmas stocking for a relative's cat (I figure any cat past the age of three months deserves a lump of coal for having been a three a.m. drape climber at least once).
I was drafted into Santa's workshop as an elf at the age of 12, I think it was, when one of my aunts handed me a stack of stocking stuffers and said "you wrap these, please, you're old enough to be Santa now." [I was devastated!!!!!]
Anyway as usual I am still following all those remembered last-minute instructions from Santa Claus, even as the sleigh is being loaded... and I wouldn't have it any other way. Oh yeah, some walnuts in the shell and a few oranges, gotta tote those along for truly last minute additions to Christmas stocking stashes.
But I don't track Santa online... tbh, I really don't have time!