Ho Ho Ho Nicholas! Merry Christmas! Have you been a good boy this year? I've been making a list and checking it twice, and it says that you've been nice! I'm very proud of you. I love bringing gifts to children who are kind to others, listen to their parents and do their best in school. I'm happy to see Levi is on the list too! Merry Christmas Levi!

This has been a hard year for all of us, including Santa. In fact even some of the reindeer (*cough* Comet *cough*) developed "flu-like" symptons and had to self-quarantine.

Fortunately it's easy to isolate here at the North Pole, so they're all okay now and ready to pull my sleigh through the night sky.

Mrs. Claus has been baking Christmas cookies for all the elves so they have plenty of energy to build lots of toys. Oh that Mrs. Claus, what would we do without her cooking and cleaning and taking care of us while we men do all the hard work!

Although the state of Ohio currently has a curfew in place between the hours of 10 p.m. and 5 a.m., Santa has decided his work is "essential" and therefore is exempted! Ho Ho Ho! A Christmas miracle indeed.

Your uncle told me that you wanted your very own world wide web domain for Christmas; when I heard that I had my top elves not only buy you a domain but also build you this website! I think they did a swell job. If you do well in school, maybe one day you'll be able to build a site as nice as this one.

Rudolph and all the reindeer are very happy that we're going to be visiting you again soon, once we have all received our vaccination shots (as Mrs. Claus so often likes to remind me, I'm an elderly, overweight male with poor eating habits who probably has diabetes, so I should be one of the first to receive the vaccine, although if what I've read on social media is true, there's a good chance the "kung flu" is a hoax perpetrated by the radical left, led by "the squad", to destroy this country and you know the election was stolen right? Fraud, bigly! But I digress...). Hopefully next year things will be back to normal.

Finally, and most importantly, remember that even though you can't visit your family, and they can't visit you, they love you and miss you and think about you often.

Merry Christmas!