Dear Santa,

I know you’ve probably received a lot of letters this year from tiny tots (with their eyes all aglow), asking for Wiis, puppies and official Red Ryder carbine action, 200-shot range model air rifles, but I promise that this letter is a little different.

I simply want to say thank you.

Santa, to be so rosy, you are the greenest man that I know, and I want to thank you for that! After all of these years when you could have easily switched to a Range Rover or a Lamborghini or, heck, even a Rolls Royce…you chose, instead, to stick to what’s good — your trusty, no-fuel-necessary reindeer!

So onward Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen! And yes, I do think I recall the most famous reindeer of all — Rudolph the green-nosed reindeer?

Have a safe trip down south, Santa! And please, for goodness sake, don’t wake Charley!

xoxo,

Josie