How the Dye family prepare for Christmas
Christmas will forever be a special occasion for the Dye family, and they share with us how they prepare for the occasion.
DURING the course of the year, members of the Highway community have been kind enough to invite us into their homes and share about their families with us. The Dye family in Forest Hills is one of the families that shared their love story of 50 years with us. Vronika and Robert Dye celebrated 50 years of marriage in August this year. They told us about the Christmas traditions they have been practising for the past 50 years.
Vronika says her family sees Christmas as a time of giving and a time to reminisce about the birth of Jesus Christ. “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his only son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16.” Vronika shared this verse from the Bible.
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The mother of two adult children says Christmas starts on December 24 as that’s when they usually prepare for Christmas day.
“On the day, we wake up early to make cheese sandwiches that will be dipped in beaten eggs. The breakfast is made nice and early so we can prepare to go to church. The gammon or whatever meat we are having for Christmas would have been prepared the day before so we can share it with the church.
“The Christmas decorations are up at this time, and the Christmas spirit is alive while we cook and prepare. For me, it is not Christmas lunch or dinner without my children’s favourite dishes – beans with gravy; cauliflower and cheese sauce, and yellow rice with raisins. Then there is roast leg of lamb with a delicious gravy, and don’t forget the peas and carrots,” she said.
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Vronika said that apart from the feasting, her favourite activity is also preparing the dining table. “The tablecloths and placemats always have a theme colour as well as matching napkins. It is always my husband’s job to place the glasses on the table in just the right place between the fish forks and knives,” she said.
Vronika said these are the special moments to enjoy with her family, and Christmas will forever be a special occasion for them.
