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Watching it was like a gift from Santa. All positive vibes.... with sweet simple story, brought back the old memories.

I thought this was pretty good, sort of a Sound of Music without the music. I have to admit, when I look at Rebecca Dalton, I think, "Wow!" She's really gorgeous, but she also did a nice job in this movie. I was a little bit thrown by both of the leads being the same race and sexual preference. You don't see that a lot anymore (sarc). It's a slow starter, but it gets better and in the end, it's yet another heart-warming Lifetime Christmas movie. Give it a watch...

How could you not love a simple love story -lonely children, hard working dad, beautiful help. Forget about picking the storyline to pieces and sit back and enjoy it - it's a Xmas movie! Bring it on.....

I saw the title and expected something goofy. The beginning with the early scenes at the community center didn't convince me otherwise. But soon after it becomes apparent that this is basically the Nanny premise, even though I don't think that word ever came up. I'm glad the writers didn't use up a lot of screen time establishing Allie's unemployment. So many movies spend time setting up the unemployment, the-dumped-by-boyfriend, or up-for-promotion premise. The scene at the community center was needed to establish relationships that come into play later.

The tone of the movie is quite upbeat with a couple of minor exceptions. The rival girlfriend is gone fairly quickly. Once the premise of the nanny at Christmas is established, the plot is predictable with one exception. Clearly there is going to be a conflict just before the climax, but this conflict was a poor choice. Personally, I don't see how anyone with Allie's experience with kids could have allowed it to happen.

Rebecca Dalton and Aaron Ashmore has a nice chemistry. I've seen Dalton before a few times and I thought this role was good for her. She does the optimistic artistic woman very well. She is also a very beautiful woman which probably causes some people to dismiss her acting.

This movie is not original per se, there have been other hallmark movies that are similar, but it was still a good idea.

I was expecting a lot from this movie, having Jayne Eastwood and Aaron Ashmore in it, but it failed to deliver, it is entertaining, but it lacks... finesse?

The idea, as I said is not original, but tries to take a different avenue, that being said, the writing goes from mediocre to very bad, and the acting is sub-par, Jayne, Aaron and Rebecca do not manage to pull the movie up

Everyone else overacts, or is just too bad at acting, I know the girls are young, but there have been plenty of kids in Hallmark or other productions that are very good actors so age is not really an excuse.

The movie really sets an expectation that it fails to deliver, it is good to watch if there is nothing else but it is not going to be even a the most basic of classics, let alone a shining star.