just thinking about when i was a kid there was no such thing as a vcr or a dvd or a dvr...you got one chance to watch the grinch and that was it...if you missed it, you had to listen to all the other kids talk about it at school the next day and you had to wait a whole year to see it again...not these days though...we have the joy of watching the grinch over and over and over again...watching his heart grow over and over...watch the boys understand the movie on so many different levels...love the christmas specials as much as the boys do and yes, we watch them when they are on - thats half the fun - but we also dvr them to enjoy them again and again...can't wait to share george baileys movie with them over and over...it is a wonderful life...peace.