Milk and cookies. A classic snack for kids after school, as well as for Santa on Christmas Eve. Oreos, chocolate chip, whatever kind you leave -- when's the last time you woke up on Christmas morning and the plate of cookies wasn't empty (barring a few crumbs, perhaps)? It's quite evident he loves them. But nowadays there's growing concern about Santa's waistline (see this British article about keeping the jolly old man fit) and whether he should be given the sugary treats. (He probably consumes at least several million while traveling around the world in one night.)
In our era of incessant lawsuits, it's never a bad thing to take necessary precautions against incurring a suit, even from Father Christmas himself. This is where the Christmas Cookie Liability Waiver comes in. Its various clauses offers legal protection in the event that Santa charges you didn't leave him healthier alternatives to the milk and cookies, or that you failed to tell him that your cookies have the potential to cause overeating or become habit-forming, or that you failed to list the nutritional information and ingredients, or that you didn't notify him that eating an excessive amount of the cookies could make him more overweight.
Find a copy of the liability and indemnification agreement, from the Center for Consumer Freedom, here:
http://www.consumerfreedom.com/downloads/pro/docs/041225_christmas.pdf
Make sure Santa signs it before he tucks into the milk and cookies you provide. Then again, maybe you should just leave him mince pie, rather than cookies, like they do in Britain. He'd probably get a kick out of that, too.
In the song, the "8 maids a-milking" could represent the 8 Beatitudes (see Matthew 5:3-10).
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