Is there a passage for this?
What are you trying to ask? Or am I just to stupid to see what you are trying to ask.....
This expression means that you don’t have to make a decision right about a future problem. You should decide what to do about that problem when the problem is directly in front of you.
The point of view that is revealed is that she is scared and is assuming that the minister's family is not going to like their christmas dinner and the way that their family act.