A season of giving

Continuing with our Christmas tradition of making it a season of giving instead of getting, we did more caroling this week. For family home evening we went to visit some elderly women. We sang to them, off tune, but they enjoyed it; we also gave them some cookies.  We were very grateful it was not snowing and all of them lived in the same building so we were much warmer and drier than last week. On our way home we witnessed a terrible car accident so we stayed around until the police, ambulance, and fire trucks arrived and Dave gave his account of what he saw. While we waited in the car for Dave to finish his report to the police, I took the time to discuss with the kids a little bit about elderly people, loneliness and the importance of visiting them. We talked about those in our family that are in that situation and why we always keep in touch with them by calling, writing (drawing) etc... Heidi was very sweet and pledged to always keep those who are old and live alone in her prayers. By the time we got home all but Ethan were asleep but he definitely wanted that hot chocolate cup I had promised. When I tucked him in bed he whispered to me how much fun it had been to visit the old ladies.