Joel Schiffman and Hoda Kotb
Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for TimeHoda KotbHis ex-fiancée Joel Schiffman She joins her family's Christmas 2024 celebrations.
“For us, our Christmas isn't so big because it's just me and my kids and my mom and my sister Joel,” Kotb shared on the Tuesday, December 24, episode of Today with Hoda and Jennawhich was previously recorded. “We get together. This is the group, and it's just a cozy Christmas. So, tonight we're going to make cookies for Santa and the carrots. He always seems to like cookies more.”
Qutb shares it Two daughters – Haley, 7, and Hope, 5 – with Shiffman, 66 They dated quietly for two years before announcing their romance in 2015. After adopting Hailey in 2017, Schiffman popped the question to Kotb in 2019, the same year they adopted Hope. However, Kotb revealed in a January 2022 episode of the show Hoda and Jenna That husband was I decided to call it quits After eight years together.
“We decided that we were going to start this new year and start it on our new path as loving parents to our wonderful, joyful children and as friends,” she explained on air at the time. “And it's not like something happened. They say sometimes relationships are meant to be there for a reason, for a season or a lifetime. And I feel like we were meant to be there for a season.”
Hoda Kotb isn't feeling festive as her first Christmas in her new home arrives. “It's all happening!” Everything is happy!! 🥰,” Today, 60, wrote via Instagram on Sunday, December 22, alongside a collection of festive photos, the first slide of which included a look at the holiday decor in her living room. Hanging from a pole (…)
Schiffman's inclusion in this year's holiday festivities is special because it's the first Christmas Kotb and her daughters will spend in their new suburban home. (Kotb announced in March that she and her children Moving outside of New York City.)
“I'm so excited that the stockings will be hung in a place that you know is going to be where the stockings will hang for years — we've decided, for the first time, where the tree is going to go, and we know from this day forward, this is where things are going to go — all these wonderful things. Jenna Bush Hager. “We decorated our house, like all that chic stuff.”
Kotb went on to point out that her new home was starting to feel like home after her She hosted her first Thanksgiving In space last month. “The fact that we're all sitting at a table together, and I'm imagining that at Christmas as well,” she said. (Shiffman did not appear in Instagram photos Kotb shared her Thanksgiving celebration.)
Hoda with family.
Courtesy of Hoda Kotb/InstagramKotb teased that Schiffman shared her Christmas plans over the weekend. sharing Instagram photos From her home's holiday decorations, a stocking bearing the name “Dad” appeared among the rest of the family's stockings hung above the living room fireplace on a pole.
“It's all happening! Merry Everything!!🥰,” Kotb captioned the photos, which included a selfie of herself getting hit in the face with a snowball while playing outside with Halle, Hope, and her mother. together.
Bush Hager, 43, shared her own vacation plans on Tuesday's episode of the show Hoda and JennaSaying that her family's “tradition” is to travel to her home state of Texas for Christmas. (she Kids arrow Mila, 11, Bobby, 9, and Hal, 5, with her husband. Henry Hager.)
“We're outdoors. Especially when we lived here in the city, it was very good for my kids because they didn't know that — I remember when Mila was two, she'd say, 'No buggy!' “Because she's never seen a bug before,” she joked George W. Bush) He was like, “Oh, Jenna.” You will need to take it outside. So, we go outside, we hike, we hang out. It's just fun. And then the hymnalists from this local church would come and sing, like “Happy Day,” which is my father’s favorite. “He wants that at his funeral.”
