Why Santa Doesn't Visit Our Home

With Christmas approaching, there's always the subject of Santa Claus. He's everywhere! Which is fine. He can be fun. A jolly old guy with a long white beard dressed in red. I have no problem with Santa as being fun. My problem is with Santa being "real". I have a very strong objection to children thinking that Santa is "real". And the reason for my objection: when I was little, I believed in Santa. He "came" to our house and brought us presents and filled our stockings and ate our cookies. It was fun, yes, because I thought he really existed. The problem was that my parents were good at keeping the secret and I still believed in Santa when I was 10 years old, which was kind of old apparently. At school, I was teased and made fun of because I still believed in Santa. I told the teasers that my parents wouldn't LIE to me and therefore, Santa HAD to be real. I went home and told my mom of the teasing and she told me the truth. I was VERY upset. At 10 years old, I thought that my parents would never lie to me. Now Mom and Dad reading this, I'm not mad at you or disappointed in you, of course. You didn't know any better. And have said that if you could do it over again, you wouldn't have us think that Santa was real. I don't want to LIE to my children. Imagination and fantasy is one thing, because we know that it's just for fun and that they aren't real. It's different. I let my kids sit on Santa's lap if they want to, for fun. But they know he's not real. Well, Cory has no idea who Santa is at 2. And I tell Kayden all the time that Santa isn't real. He's just pretend, like Dora or Diego or Elmo. But Kayden sometimes insists that Santa is real because he hears others talking about him like he is. And so I have to reinforce again that he's in fact, not real, and just pretend. He doesn't completely get it right now because of the conflicting opinions of it.
Jon and I had many discussions when Kayden was a baby that we would not do Santa. We talked about what might happen if he tells someone that Santa isn't real and Jon's response was that he would ask the parent, "Well, is he real?" I obviously don't want to cause any problems, but I'm not going to LIE to my child and if you decide to LIE to yours, well, sorry if my kid spoils your LIE.
There's also someone in parents church, that when they found out that Santa wasn't real, also questioned the realness of GOD and Jesus. And it's completely understandable. We tell our kids that God and Jesus are real, and yet we can't see them. Well, they also think that Santa is real and can't see him. You can see how that might get a little confusing.
So, all that to say.....sure Santa was fun when I was little until I found out I was LIED to. Then it was humiliating when I was teased at school. I was teased and left out a lot in elementary school, but that's another story. As Christians, we know that lying is wrong. So why would I LIE to my kids and let them think that Santa really does exist? Oh, and I've read places about the St. Nicholas having been a real man, well yes, he was, but he's no longer living and therefore can not bring us presents through our chimney.
So this Christmas and every Christmas, Santa will not be visiting our house. Jesus' birth will be celebrated.