A delicious candlelight dinner at home with my family. Yummy fish chowder (why don't we have this more often?) Singing hymns after dinner. Timothy and I sing duets while the rest of the family gets ready for meeting. Thankful testimonies. Email from David M. (I liked the story about the man who preached in an evil city -- he tried to convince his wicked neighbors to change their ways and repent, then finding them recalcitrant, he realized he needed to continue the good fight if only to keep himself from being worn down and compromised by his neighbors).
Then, S.T. -- Brownies with ice cream. Super good!!
After treats, the kids wanted to break open their Christmas present -- a boxed set of DVDs of the old "Lone Ranger" tv program from the 1960's. I hadn't seen this program since I was a little boy, but now that I have boys of my own, I thought it might make some good wholesome family viewing. We popped in the first disk in the set and watched an episode together. Wow, I can't believe they used to actually make stuff like this for TV! We really enjoyed it. Technical quality is definitely primitive by today's standards, but it is full of good messages and role models. In one scene, the Lone Ranger and Tonto (his Indian companion) are leaving a ranch where they have just met a family of homesteaders. The wife/mother is a prototype of the ideal, strong, virtuous wife and mother. She loves her husband, for all his faults, and doesn't allow anyone to speak ill of him. As they ride off together LR says to Tonto, "A fella could put a fence around the whole world and make it his ranch, but without a woman like that at his side he'd be a poor man."
The boys begged to watch another episode. Perhaps tomorrow...
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