I am catching up on the last couple of shows of the week because I'm trying to get back into the habit *and* they're both shows I've wanted to listen to for some time but hadn't.

I enjoyed this show quite a bit. I had to quickly switch from the one in the set I have to a high quality one that someone from the cbs_rmt YahooGroup had posted last year because of weird skipping and jumping of the voices. It was segmented with weird gaps between the words as if two conversations were spliced together or something. Once I switched to the better version (whew!), I thought it was a nice story. I didn't have problems with the little girl (although I'm very much *not* the critic when it comes to these things so it would be rare for me to pick out stuff that most of you found).

I loved that the santa suit renter came down to just the price she needed as a kind gesture and then poof wasn't really there when it was time to return the suit.

I also love when a grump turns into a nice person again (or for the first time). It's always nice to think of people making changes like that.

As far as their giggling, I always like to think of children as having a special way of reaching people who could use a laugh through their infectious laughter--even if it might be slightly obnoxious or even completely obnoxious. Part of the "magic" is in the actual moment including the facial expressions, body language and surrounding circumstances such as an "inside joke"--things that we're not able to see with our eyes with a program like this. I guess I figure that sometimes people need to find the humor in things to feel better about life and it seemed to fit the situation here.