Santa and Mrs. Claus

Most fathers have two pat answers to questions that they can't answer:"I don't know" and "Ask your mother."
But my Great-Uncle Ralph had an answer for everything, especially about Santa Claus, except one. He never could come up with an answer to the question that has been on children's minds for hundreds of years: Where did Santa Claus come from?
My uncle's answer always was "Well, Buzzy, that is quite a question. The answer is that he always has been," and then he would change the subject.
Now, to a 6-year-old, "always has been" just doesn't cut it. There are too many unanswered questions. But more importantly, a youngster's finite mind cannot comprehend "always has been." There has to be a beginning and an end.
There has been several theories, stories and legends about the origin of Santa Claus. My favorite and the one that makes most sense is that hundreds of years ago, Santa and Mrs. Claus were known throughout a village near the North Pole of being generous givers and lovers of children. Not able to have children of their own, they basically adopted all the children of the village and made special gifts for them at Christmas.
One Christmas Eve, they got caught in a blinding blizzard and their sleigh ended up way beyond the outskirts of the village. The townspeople searched and searched the next day, but never could find their beloved Santa and Mrs. Claus.
That fateful night, Santa and Mrs. Claus wandered all the way to the North Pole. Stranded and believed they would die, the couple cuddled up together one last time. All of a sudden, elves appeared and rescued them and took them to a place that only exists in imagination. The elves told Santa and Mrs. Claus they were waiting for them, to fulfill a prophecy they had hung on to for hundreds of years. The prophecy merely stated that a childless couple who loved children, would be a deliverer of toys throughout the world.
Exactly how long ago this occurred, no one knows. But the legacy of Santa Claus exists to this day. And his wife, oh the glorious Mrs. Claus, became the mother of all the elves. And for the first time, you will know the first name of the wife of Santa Claus. There have been several attempts to guess her name but up to know, all guesses have not been accurate. The real first name is Merry. Yes, Merry as in Merry Christmas.
And now, you know, the rest of the story.