I received an email recently from a friend about Santa's Email. While I ignored the email at first, I now must admit this is one of the coolest things my wife and I will remember about this Christmas...and it was FREE.
You basically click on the link above (it's FREE...did I mention that?) and you plug in information about the child you'd like Santa to email. For us it was our 3-year old son, Jackson, but it could either be a son, daughter, neice, nephew, grandchild...you name it. The form asks for their name, what state they live in, their age, what toy they asked for and WILL BE GETTING this Christmas, along with a couple of other pieces of information, like what special behavior they've been working on this year (for Jackson it has been saying "please" and "thank you"). You also provide an email for the message to be received, which in our case was my wife's email address.
I did all of this on blind faith, despite trusting the friend who sent me the original email. It took about 10-minutes of my time and was exponentially worth it. My wife called me later that day & said I wouldn't believe the email and Jackson's reaction to it. The email gives a video message from the most authentic looking Santa (sitting in his workshop, nonetheless) I've seen in some time. The message was customized toward Jackson, with Santa talking about travelling from the North Pole to South Carolina and even mentioning Jackson's behavior and the gift he had asked for.
My wife said Jackson was awestruck about the video message and kept talking about his email from Santa. When I came home that night it was pure entertainment hearing him talk about it. We are already talking about next Christmas doing the same thing for our 15-month old daughter in hopes that she'll appreciate it also. I get the feeling this will become an annual Christmas event for the children.
So, if you have a special child who you know would love to get a video email message from Santa, invest the 10-minutes to send it to them. You'll be happy you did.
Merry Christmas!
