This work arose as a response to the colossal stress and fatigue that has accumulated over two years in the wake of the covid pandemic and its associated restrictions. This long inability to live a full life, in which there is a place for joy and fun, and overheated expectations of the imminent end of all covid restrictions translate into the wildest fantasies. As if it can make us happy, as if we can make up for irrevocably lost time... For all those adults who still believe in a fairy tale, I drew my "Santa's helpers")