Thinking About Christmas

Dad/LHT thinks that would be the good LDS thing to do because we will be alone on Christmas Day to invite a ward family who will be all alone. I said that we should do something, just the two of us. However, he thinks that it is a good time to open our home up to others. Of course, all of the older folks in the ward have someplace to go and are spending time with various and sundry of their family members. So I suppose he is right but, I really do not want the older kids of the family he has in mind here. Dad is right that the parents are good people but the older kids are not. He said I would have felt terrible if we were not invited places just because of our kids. I said that our kids were not the kind who entered homes without permission and took things that did not belong to them.  I said that I would have understood if we were not invited had they been. Besides, if they are not invited, how will they ever know they might have been? I guess I should pray again. A few times, when we have had disagreements on what should be done, Dad and I, we both pray and seem to get answers that are in line with what we are thinking before we pray. We don't always seem to get the same answer. The one time, when we were trying to decide whether to buy the Olpin home and rent it, we had to really work together. I admit that we finally did come to a consensus. Therefore, we bought the Water and Joey Olpin home and you know what sort of problem that proved to be. I think that confusion we had might have been the answer. Who knows, maybe we had lessons to learn and we did learn them. Of course, that has very little to do with this situation. I am just thinking in print. I suppose the best thing to do is get on my knees again. I haven't a single child who would be so worried.  They would all open their homes, as would LHT, to the unfortunate. "Tis the season. . .