{"id":1626,"date":"2009-12-21T11:48:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T15:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2025-11-27T01:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:29:15","slug":"personalized-christmas-cards-and-cookies-for-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/personalized-christmas-cards\/personalized-christmas-cards-and-cookies-for-santa\/","title":{"rendered":"Personalized Christmas Cards and Cookies for Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid, I would leave out cookies for Santa and milk for Rudolph every Christmas Eve before I went to bed. Having been one of those kids who was never asked to join in any reindeer \u2013 I mean, playground &#8211; games, I felt an affinity for Rudolph, one that I didn\u2019t feel towards the other eight reindeer. So, he got the bowl of milk. I didn\u2019t expect him to share with the others either.<\/p>\n<p>I would always include a letter to Santa with the treats, written on a pretty Christmas card. Sure, I sat on his lap at the mall and told him all about the Cabbage Patch Kids or Jem dolls I wanted, but he saw so many kids during the span between Thanksgiving and Christmas. I wanted to be sure he remembered me and leaving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/christmas-cards\/personalized-christmas-cards.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>personalized Christmas cards<\/strong><\/a> seemed like a good way to make an impression. It never dawned on me that a \u201creminder card\u201d put out on Christmas Eve may be a little too late. Santa was magic, after all. He\u2019d make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>I usually found whatever it was I asked for under the tree when I woke up early the next morning. The cookies and milk were gone, and a brightly wrapped package or twelve rested on the tree skirt. I do remember one time, though, when Santa wrote back.<\/p>\n<p>While most of the specifics are hazy, I imagine his note \u2013 written on a holiday card, just like mine to him \u2013 mentioned what a good girl I\u2019d been and reminded me to be a good girl for my parents for the New Year. After all, he was watching, right? The one detail I do remember, though, is that his handwriting was so sloppy, it looked like he misspelled my name. In fact, he called me by a boy\u2019s name!<\/p>\n<p>I showed my mother the offending holiday card, wondering how Santa could possibly address my Christmas card to Lee, and not Dee. Somehow, she explained the \u201cerror\u201d all away. I guess moms are good at that.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever I find myself \u201cbah-humbugging\u201d the holidays, I think of Santa and the magic he brings to Christmas. The kid in me still remembers. And, I have to confess, I still look at the table near the tree each year and wonder if he\u2019ll leave me Christmas cards and write me again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When I was a kid, I would leave out cookies for Santa and milk for Rudolph every Christmas&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1292,1299,26],"tags":[910],"class_list":{"0":"post-1626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-occasions-and-celebrations","7":"category-expressing-thanks","8":"category-personalized-christmas-cards","9":"tag-personalized-christmas-cards","10":"cs-entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Personalized Christmas Cards and Cookies for Santa - Gallery Connection<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/personalized-christmas-cards\/personalized-christmas-cards-and-cookies-for-santa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Personalized Christmas Cards and Cookies for Santa - Gallery Connection\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When I was a kid, I would leave out cookies for Santa and milk for Rudolph every Christmas&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/personalized-christmas-cards\/personalized-christmas-cards-and-cookies-for-santa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gallery Connection\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-12-21T15:48:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-11-27T06:29:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Henry L.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Henry L.\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/personalized-christmas-cards\/personalized-christmas-cards-and-cookies-for-santa\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/personalized-christmas-cards\/personalized-christmas-cards-and-cookies-for-santa\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Henry L.\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/354a198a194eb6492cbacff6edb7440b\"},\"headline\":\"Personalized Christmas Cards and Cookies for Santa\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-12-21T15:48:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-11-27T06:29:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/personalized-christmas-cards\/personalized-christmas-cards-and-cookies-for-santa\/\"},\"wordCount\":409,\"commentCount\":2,\"keywords\":[\"Personalized Christmas Cards\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Occasions &amp; 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