Die jaar staan einde se kant toe en talle maak gereed om \u2019n ruskans te geniet. S\u00f3 ook die Weslander<\/i>-span, wat vandag die kantoordeur agter hulle toetrek om die jaar in o\u00ebnskou te neem en oor Kersfees tyd deur te bring saam met geliefdes, wat dikwels aan die spit moet byt wanneer die druk ophoop namate die spertye naderkruip. Die Weslander<\/i>-span deel graag van hul gunsteling-Kerstradisies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c \u2019n Familietradisie wat al jare in my gesin aankom, is Oukersaand,\u201d vertel Noluvu Ludidi<\/span>. \u201cOp daardie aand kom die hele gesin bymekaar. Die huis word versier en jy loop daar weg met \u2019n vol magie. Wat die aand spesiaal maak, is wanneer dit tyd is om geskenke uit te deel. Iemand in die familie trek soos Kersvader aan en maak \u2019n grand entrance<\/i> met sy klokkie. As kind was dit \u2019n baie opwindende tyd; selfs nou as volwassene geniet ek dit steeds. Deesdae het die kinders so slim geword dat hulle al met die instap kan s\u00ea dis \u201coom Piet\u201d, byvoorbeeld, wat die kostuum aan het. Almal sit dan rondom die Kersboom terwyl jou naam uitgeroep word en Kersvader jou geskenk aangee. Die tradisie is al die afgelope 26 jaar deel van my lewe.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n \n Trish Goosen<\/span> vertel: \u201cVandat ek byna drie jaar terug die beroemde seuntjie, wat twee millennium gelede in Bethlehem gebore is, persoonlik ontmoet het, voel ek heeltemal anders oor Kersfees. Hierdie seuntjie, Jesus Christus, die vlekkelose lam wat die w\u00eareld se sonde kom wegneem het, het in die begin van 2020 ook my God geword. Kersfees was nog altyd vir my \u2019n spesiale tyd van die jaar, maar deesdae is Kersfees ook vir my \u2019n tyd van nadenking, gebed en dankbaarheid teenoor my Skepper. Iets waarna ek die meeste uitsien vir Kersfees, is alleentyd by Sy voete om gehaltetyd in sy teenwoordigheid deur te bring. Maar ek sien ook soos altyd uit na ons gesin se Kersfeestradisie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy ma het my vertel ons gesin se Kersfeestradisie het een jaar begin toe die res van die familie almal ander verpligtinge gehad het en ons gesinnetjie Kerstyd alleen deurgebring het. My ma het besluit om dit so spesiaal as moontlik te maak, al is dit net ons vier. Die paar geskenkies onder die boom het darem net te eensaam gelyk. My ouers het \u2019n slim plan gemaak sonder om die bank te stroop. Die alledaagse items op my ma se inkopielysie, soos die ekstra hangers wat sy nodig gehad het of nuwe werksokkies vir my pa, is alles in kleurvolle geskenkpapier toegedraai en onder die boom gerangskik. Natuurlik het ek en my sussie die nuwe speelgoed gekry waarvoor ons gevra het, maar daar was ook \u2019n klomp ander gebruiksitem-geskenke wat ons kon oopmaak. Ons het elke keer geskaterlag as my ma iets soos wasgoedpennetjies oopmaak, wat kammakastig van my pa af kom, maar sy het dit self uitgekies en toegedraai. En my pa is meer verbaas as sy (want sy het al vergeet wat sy alles toegedraai het) om te sien wat in die pakkie is. Die tradisie het begin omdat my ouers nie oor Kersfees alleen wou wees nie, maar in die jare daarna nie regtig weer die aand saam met die res van die familie wou deurbring nie. Kersdag is vir die res van die familie, maar Oukersaand was ons dag. Ons draai steeds ons nuwe tandepaste, braai-brikette, aanrol-deodorant en wie weet wat nog toe en sit dit onder die boom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOns mans en kinders het ook deel van die tradisie geword, maar dis waar dit eindig. Dis \u2019n \u2018eksklusiewe klub\u2019 en jy kom nie sommer in nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vir Chantell Cornelissen<\/span> is Oukersaand die tyd vir almal om bymekaar te kom. \u201cOns speel \u2019n Secret Santa<\/span>-speletjie en wag dan tot Kersvader kom. Iewers verskyn \u2019n sak met geskenke. Kersdag is dit weer net middagete almal saam.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kersfeestyd is \u2019n baie spesiale tyd vir Justin Cupido<\/span> se familie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOukersaand kom ons almal bymekaar en almal berei hul spesiale geregte vir \u2019n Oukersaandete voor. Ons speel Kersmusiek terwyl die huis vol kersversierings is met liggies wat oral flikker. Almal het \u2019n groot afwagting vir Kersvader om sy verskyning te maak om die kinders se geskenke te bring. Dit is natuurlik elke jaar meer van \u2019n uitdaging om \u2019n familielid of \u2019n vriend te kry om hierdie rol van die man in die rooi pak te vertolk namate die kinders ouer word en die vrae meer. Die herinneringe van al die ooms en tannies wat al vir Kersvader moes \u2018instaan\u2019 \u2013 omdat hy op Oukersaand verskriklik besig is om geskenke af te lewer \u2013 word dan laggend herroep, so ook die reaksies van die kinders en herinneringe van ons eie reaksie oor Kersvader toe ons self nog kinders was. Die hoogtepunt bly steeds die samekoms en waardering vir nog \u2019n Kersfees saam.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kersfees as kind in die Brutus-huishouding bring vir Linda Luyt <\/span>(nooiensvan Brutus) baie goeie herinneringe op. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAl ons kinders het vir die vakansie in Kuilsrivier, Sarepta, gaan kuier toe ons nog klein was. Ons het n\u00e1 my tannie se dood nie meer so gereeld gaan kuier nie, maar my pa het \u2019n nuwe tradisie begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDie Weskus-dorpe het ons nuwe vakansietuiste geword \u2013 veral Jacobsbaai en Laingville in St. Helenabaai. Kersdag is kos gemaak en die samesyn met familie en vriende was heerlik. Op 26 Desember is ons altyd strand toe. Kosmandjies is gepak, so ook piekniekkomberse, waatlemoene en spanspek, en koekies was volop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDaar was gewoonlik bootjies op Jacobsbaai wat jy kon gebruik om in die vlak waters mee te baljaar. Kinderstemme was oral te hoor en vriende is gemaak met al die ander wat ook Jacobsbaai besoek het. Laatmiddag was gewoonlik weer huistoegaantyd en daardie aand het niemand gewoonlik tot n\u00e1 20:00 wakker gebly nie, want almal was pootuit n\u00e1 die stranduitstappie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy pa en ma het die see-ervaringe begin en tot vandag toe kan ons as Brutus-kinders nie van die see af wegbly nie. Sodra dit warm word aan die Weskus, is ons op die strand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDankie, Pa en Ma, dat julle ons as Brutus-kinders \u2019n erfenis kon nalaat.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Die jaar staan einde se kant toe en talle maak gereed om \u2019n ruskans te geniet. 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