You know what? I'm glad we don't worship the fat man. We've chosen our God and will be remembering the birth of His son in December. May not be the right time but as humans we love celebration, that has to be a God-given need to celebrate, so let's remember the time that Jesus came to earth. We commemmorate his death at Easter, why not commemorate his birth too? Jesus' birth (well, conception) is no less miraculous than... actually, conception full stop, but God sent His son... I want to remember that!
Magic... is strictly forbidden in the Bible. No "magic of Christmas" at our house. We'll have lots of fun, maybe get snow (we're up with my Mum this year), see family, yes we'll have presents but we won't be lying about from whence they came and tbh DS has already had most of what would have been his "Christmas presents" if I agreed with letting him get excited about a toy then not letting him play with it for months, but we won't be lying and we won't be boring either.
Imagination. I love imagining things. DS and I play imaginative games together - we pretend things, boxes become all sorts of fun things, we laugh, we have SO MUCH fun! We don't need to buy into a corporate lie to do that though. We can pretend that the soft toy bunnies are alive and playing our bouncy game with us WITHOUT us thinking they're really alive. Do I want to stimulate DS's imagination that a stranger is creeping around our house, in DS's room even, and that's OK? No I do not!
I know I'm coming from a fairly strict Christian perspective here; I just want to tell you what I do because I don't want people thinking I'm mean for not having Santa (yup, banning him as well, tbh it's so associated with greed atm I didn't like Santa pre-DS either). We have other great things which don't involve lying and do involve God. But we chose to follow God, not everyone has, others follow other traditions, I don't want to preach but I did want to put my viewpoint across.
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I have never heard of a Hannukah Bush!! Smart mother 
That is what makes the world interesting ... that we all think about stuff differently, that even though I'm christian too ... I see no problem with having a "santa" Christmas. We usually gather in the living room, my dad reads us the story of Jesus's birth, we sings some songs (when we were young we played piano/did the whole nativity play) we talk a bit about what is important ... love, trust, family ... we pray together and then we give gifts. After that we sit down for a family dinner that usually ends after 4-5 hours of laughter and fun.
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