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A letter from Santa for kids with two homes

For a child with two homes, the season's logistics can quietly become the season's worry: where will Christmas Eve happen, which house does the stocking hang in, does Santa even know the schedule? This letter settles it in one line — Santa knows the way to both houses — and then gets on with the important business of celebrating their year.

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Santa Claus
The North Pole
North Pole,
December 2026

Dear Mia,

Hello there! I’m writing to you from my big desk by the fire, with a list of kind children on one side and a plate of cookies on the other. You can guess which side empties first. The reindeer started a card game tonight, and the elves can’t stop wandering over to watch instead of wrapping. Nobody is winning.

Watching you grow this year has been the best show of the season. Even the elves stop to peek at my list. I asked Mrs. Claus what to write to you this year. She said to keep it simple: you are wonderful, and everybody knows it.

Some children live in two places, and both places are home. My list follows you wherever you are, and that won’t ever change.

Have a wonderful Christmas with your family. I’ll be thinking of you somewhere over the rooftops.

P.S. Mrs. Claus says children who sleep well on Christmas Eve get the best mornings. She has been right about mornings for four hundred years, so I would listen.

With love and a jingle,
Santa Claus

What the letter does

It mentions both homes in the same calm, matter-of-fact breath Santa uses for everything else — no drama, no explanation, no 'situation'. To a child, the sentence 'the reindeer know both addresses' converts an adult-sized logistics problem into a solved detail. Then the letter is simply about them: what they did, what they're proud of, what they wish for.

A note for the grown-ups

Write the answers together if you can, or keep the letter focused on the child rather than the arrangements — Santa is carefully uninterested in custody calendars. The goal is that whichever home the letter is read in, it reads as if it was always meant to arrive exactly there.

When to give it

Give it at the start of the break, before the first handoff — the sentence about both houses does its best work on day one, when the schedule questions are loudest. Print two copies if the letter will travel: one for each home's keepsake box.

Questions parents ask

Will the letter mention both families?

Santa refers to 'both your homes' and nothing more specific — no names, no addresses, no explanations. The letter belongs entirely to your child.

Can both parents use the same letter?

Yes — print it twice and let it be read in whichever home Christmas Eve (or the first morning) happens. The wording works identically in both.

What if the schedule changes every year?

That's exactly why the letter never names dates or places. It only ever says that Santa finds children wherever they are, which has the advantage of always being true.

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