Joy, love and peace, harmony, lights of all colors in a dream house and thanks to God is what you see at first sight in the house of Angelita and Tony, a married couple who have been married for 51 years and that this month they announced to their friends and families that the celebration was set up and that it was going “big”.
Thus… with joy and great esteem Angelita and Tony open the doors of their house to Listín Diario this Christmas, in which there are already a few 30 years receiving people and celebrating religious activities, because they are Christians and even birthdays, baptisms and weddings of family and friends have celebrated.
At the entrance, a row of snowmen welcomes you across the front of the house, in the garden and also inside. It is that this year that is the reason: snowmen. And there are a huge number of them, and more than 17 births.
In the garden, behind a water fountain, several snowmen of different sizes adorn the area, where there is also a swing covered in red Christmas roses.
The whole well-kept garden is worth seeing. The children who go do not want to leave. Angelita receives her people with a toast of Christmas sweets, wine, water, soft drinks, cake, grapes…
Upon entering the house, several Santa Clauses welcome and On the wall above a shelf, a virgin that a priest brought her from Spain is never missing or moves.. That one stays all year, says Tony, who has set up a small house to store all the Christmas accessories when the holiday season passes.
The two-level house has the kitchen also decorated with all kinds of Christmas motifs, as well as the guest bathroom, the dining room and the showcase and the two living rooms. The carved wooden furniture, from the Capo di Pontti brand, was brought from Italy.
Just like the main room set. They seem taken from a palace, but the most striking detail are the motifs, the rugs, the trees and the main motif is the joy and Christianity of Christmas As Angelita explains, it is because the most beautiful time of the year “is Christmas”.
Under the stairs that leads to the second floor of the house they call it “El Belén”. Another area is called “Santa’s workshop”.
An angel of the holy family. An enormous large Santa Claus doll is seen from the front. It was brought as a gift from Russia. Most of the details are purchased and others are gifts, because everyone who knows how Christmas is celebrated in this house brings the couple some detail.
Angelita has 35 years in that house. She wears white all the time and only at Christmas does she add some Christmas color to her white outfit. The reason: thanks to God for a health issue overcome, “to remember what Jesus did in me,” she said.
When the doors of this house open, nothing will be bought with the love that this married couple radiates. who had three children today professionals, married with children; and another eleven that they have adopted as their own, whom they have made professionals with their resources.
aids
Angelita is part of a foundation. Help poor children from distant towns who do not have the resources to study. She puts them up at her house, where they help with chores and doesn’t let them go until she sees them done professionally.
In her house, one of the rooms houses a girl with her daughter, who does her housekeeping. When asked why she is at the same level as his, she smiles and only says “it’s just that We are all equal in the eyes of God.”
He has always lived with that motto and has celebrated 200 to 250 Christmas bonuses at his home. One of them ends with a mass in the early hours of the morning with the presence of people from the church, friends, neighbors and now with co-workers.
“That’s what houses are for, to enjoy them with people, with friends. This is for whoever needs it. I think this is enjoying life, ”she adds.
Production
Let’s go back to the house. The reasons are changed every year. This year it’s snowmen.
In this house, located in the municipality of Santo Domingo, this has an extension of 4,000 meters of land half is dedicated to the house and the other half is practically “a conuco”. Plantains, bananas, curls, cassava, sweet potatoes and two or three cocoa and coffee plants are grown there.
Lawyers
I am a peasant, from Cibao, from Gurabito, from Yaroa, says Angelita. She likes orchards. She also has huge fig trees. Fruit trees, citrus trees “and everything a farmer can sow,” she says with a laugh. She is a lawyer by profession and so is Tony.