Joanna Gaines Shares Family’s Special Thanksgiving Tradition
By Movieguide® Contributor
FIXER UPPER star Joanna Gaines recently opened up to tell fans and followers about a family tradition she cherishes through the holidays.
Joanna and her husband, Chip, share five kids: Crew, 5, Emmie, 13, Duke, 15, Ella, 16, and Drake, 18. She shared what her family does to spend time together during the holidays.
“Like clockwork, we repeat rituals and re-create memories: the morning we pack up the kids and venture to the Christmas tree farm,” Joanna told PEOPLE. “Thanksgiving Day, when Chip’s mom gives each of us a new ornament to mark the year.”
Joanna admitted that it isn’t the ornament that is so special to her but the connections she gets to make with her family that mean so much.
“We savor favorite foods, unpack childhood ornaments, replay nostalgic records. We hold our rituals close, but we hold our people even closer,” she said. “Maybe that’s the sweetness I’m trying to put a name to. It’s the you and yours that make the holidays a season to behold.”
However, this holiday season is even more special for Joanna. Her oldest son Drake left for college this past fall and will be back home for the festivities.
“I want to hear that life pouring in and out of every room and conversation,” she said of Drake’s return home. “And I want Drake to feel as if the impression he’s made in our home remained even when he didn’t.”
“I’m thinking about this now because I’ve learned that I want to be intentional about creating that space for my kids to connect,” she added. “Our house is built in a way where everyone could go their separate ways if they don’t have a good reason not to.”
The couple recently celebrated twenty years of Magnolia. However, “Shortly before celebrating two decades of Magnolia in October, the married couple hit another milestone with the launch of their new podcast network Blind Nil Audio. They have already released two shows: 50 FIRES: A CONVERSATION OF MONEY AND MEANING and THIS MORNING WALK,” PEOPLE reported
Movieguide® recently reported on the Gaines’:
FIXER UPPER’s Chip and Joanna Gaines faced their most ambitious restoration ever when they took on an entire boutique hotel in downtown Waco, Texas.
“[This is] the largest, most complicated size project we’re ever done in our whole career,” Chip said, explaining that the goal was to “bring this building back to its former glory.”
Beyond the massive scope of the project, the couple also had to face the pressure of working on a building that is listed on the National Registry of Historical Places.
“If anybody can turn this place into the masterpiece that it deserves, it’s Joanna Gaines,” Chip said in a trailer for FIXER UPPER: THE HOTEL.
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