Hoda Kotb and daughters Hope and Haley; Taylor Swift.Photo:Hoda Kotb/ Instagram; Kevin Mazur/Getty for TAS Rights Management
Hoda Kotb/ Instagram; Kevin Mazur/Getty for TAS Rights Management
Hoda Kotbis sharing a touching mom moment.
During Wednesday’s episode of her new podcast,Making Space with Hoda Kotb, theTodayco-anchor, 59, chatted withErin Andrewsand recounted a sweet conversation she recently had with her 4-year-old daughterHope.
Kotb said to her daughter, “Hope, you know what this reminded me of?” prompting the little girl to remark, “Your eyes are wet!”
Hope then wanted her mom to explain the new vocabulary word. “She asked, ‘What does enchanted mean?’ I said, ‘Enchanted means it’s more than delighted — it’s the biggest word,’ " recalled Kotb, who is also mom to a 6-year-old daughterHaley.
Hoda Kotb with daughters Hope (left) and Haley (right).Hoda Kotb/Instagram
Hoda Kotb/Instagram
Not only did the sweet mother-daughter interaction stir up emotional memories of Hope’s arrival into her family, but it made Kotb realize that it’s important to “make space” for little moments of connection amid her busy day.
“I thought to myself, ‘Oh my God. In two minutes we made a memory,’ " she told Andrews. “It’s just, like, trying to slow the world down.”
Kotb recently shared another poignant memory from Hope’s adoption during an October episode ofToday with Hoda & Jenna.
She told the audience that “one of the best calls I ever got in my life” was when she learned she would be adopting Hope. “The woman on the other end at the adoption agency said, ‘She’s here.’ And I thought, ‘She’s here,’ " Kotb said.
It was at that moment that Hope ran up to the stage to hug her mom. “And so when I was at my reunion, I said, ‘And she’s here.’ Little Hope came buzzing up on the stage, not afraid of anything, wearing my old high school cheerleading uniform,” she continued. “It was one of those kind of ‘pinch-me’ amazing moments.”
Hoda Kotb and her family pose for a photo on Thanksgiving.Hoda Kotb/Instagram
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On Thursday, Kotb shared a new photo of Hope and Haley on Instagram as her family gathered together to celebrate Thanksgiving, just hours after she hosted theMacy’s Thanksgiving Day Paradewith her NBC colleaguesAl RokerandSavannah Guthrie.
“Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours ❤️❤️,” she wrote alongside a snapshot of the group posing on a couch. Her daughters smiled for the camera as they cuddled with their grandmother, Sameha.
source: people.com
