It's really important to make things meaningful and to stop. And meaning doesn't mean money, and meaning doesn't mean big. Britt and I were supposed to go to the Jingle Ball in LA and then there was an iHeart party on the Saturday night at Nobu, which is like Nobu and she loves it and it's tiktokie and it's fancy and it's like Adam Sandler goes Aaron. Brin's obsessed with Adam Sandler. And it's Friday night and it's going to the jingle Ball and it's getting dressed up and it's great.
But you're flying to LA for just two nights and it's activating and it's exhausting. And it's in the middle of December, which is our season. It's the holiday season, people say. Paulaway says, I don't go big with my comedy. We don't go big with our holiday stuff. Our tree looks like a Charlie Brown misfit Christmas. And I see all these people on social media with these perfect trees and tree designers are coming and like, you know what,
and it's no disrespect. No one does Christmas like Chris Jenner. It should be Christmas should be Kris Tmas. Chris Jenner does Christmas like crazy Kathy Hilton. Kyle now is following in Kathy's footsteps with all the trees and all the decorators, and Kim's got fucking the Eiffel Tower lights and her driveway and it's amazing. I really like our homemade misfit Christmas,
like I really wouldn't have it any other way. And bring one year cried when someone that works with me who put up the tree like a house manager, put up the tree for us, but we said no ornaments, and they put up all the fancy ornaments, like the ones that have meaning. And it's such a meaningful thing to do together. And we get so busy and it's overwhelming. You're taking your tree out, your shit is out, it's clutter. It's like you got other things to do. The game
moves so fast. So how we did it was I had someone that works with me, and you may not have that, so you'll do it. But you know, I'm lucky and I'm working a lot. Put up the tree like they just put the naked tree up, and then you pull out all the ornaments. I really strongly recommend organizers for your ornaments. It's just like you'll cry if an ornament breaks. It's happened. It happens when we do it perfectly. And then I could tell you later about
the ornament sleeves. We can discuss that later. But basically, how I managed it, how I tackled it, was I took out all those ornament things, and all the boxes and all the bags and put them next to the tree, and one by one I went through each and anything that I didn't live for, anything I didn't live for, or like it's a little juvenile, it's a little rusty, or it's a little gross, it's a little broken, or a little over it. It's just like it's too many stockings.
Pick the things you love. I got rid of all that stuff, because God forbid you walk into one of those TJ or Home Goods or CBS or any store, not knowing the shit you already have, you're gonna just have so much clutter, so much clutter. So I opened everything up, and there were things. There were at least like five things like these stockings, they're brand new, they still have tags on them. We don't need nineteen stockings, you know what. I'm putting a bottle one and that's
gonna be a gift bag. Like just went through everything. Some of these, like Santa hats are a little gross and dirty. Some of this battery operated shit we bought it like some fucking the Radio City Music show. Like throw that out, the memorabilia, dumb cups that the drinks came in. Whatever. Okay, snow globes are great things to buy when you go to an event, and so are ornaments because you're gonna put them on your tree. They're
not just clutter hanging around in some box. This stupid glitter garland that looked good and now it's getting ready dump it. Okay, that's stage one, Stage two. Just dip in and put like five ornaments on the tree the first time. Another habit I got into is I got rid of any non meaningful ornaments, any like big just glitter balls or pink or purple that you bought in bulk on mass goodbye, fuck off. Just have a nice lit tree with like meaningful Oh this is when we
were in Santa Barbara, like meaningful tree. So now I've put on like five ornaments. Then the next day brings home and then she puts five and I put five every time you walk by, and you do it together too, like you have at least that like hour that you're together. So you talk about it and what's your favorite and do you remember this? And you do that and then
you go with God and it's up. Don't get all crazy. Also, the day you take out your Christmas decorations, you're like, oh the other it doesn't fit in with all my other shit. I didn't need that I bought this year, Like you know what I mean. You've got a candle out, you got a vase now where you jamming this like weird Christmas shit. Make it work. Don't just like pile shit on top of shit because then it looks bad.
Like make it work. Have like you know, I had this like nice jar that has like cinnamon whatever cinnamon sticks are in and it's got like a nice bow around it and some pine sticking out of it and they're nice like vases, So like take down two other vases or just like move things around and make it meaningful. Like don't just throw the shit on top of your shit, because then you're gonna be living in a cluttered mess.
And then you just did it. To do it, you check the box make it so it makes sense and it looks good. I strongly recommend this, honestly, Like get a process for your Christmas program, same shit for Halloween, Easter, Valentine's Day, that fourth of July. We love an excuse to buy shit, put the shit out, put the shit away, take the shit out. It's it's a George carl And
stuff special. But create a process for it. That whole exasperating story was to tell you that this was the weekend that we did, like Hampton's meaning, and we didn't go to the Jingle Ball, and we didn't exhaust ourselves in La because we wanted to go to our house and do our Charlie round Christmas tree and do our ornaments, and we baked cookies and we played Christmas music and then we did and we were gonna go ice skating, but we got tired and we just lived in the
moment and we didn't go. And we did one holiday thing a day, went to TJ max and bought gift stuff. We went to our favorite store in the Hampton's called Martyrs, that has all these incredible ornaments and everyone looks like someone you know, like there's a blow dryer or there's an art set, or there's like books and an apple for a teacher. It's amazing. And we each year have a ritual where we pick out an ornament that represents the other person. And as we've been there for years,
they've changed them. So we bought a lot and they've gotten harder. They've either like reduced their scope or something. So this year, what did Brinn get me? Hers? What's good? I forgot what Brins was for me. I'm gonna open it on Christmas? What did she because I just saw it for a second and then she put it away. It reminded her of me. She's gotten me the margarita
one one year, I got her a peanut. God, I'll have to let you guys know, but I got her a little like rainbow troll, like a little with the hair on the top trolls. And it's just so fun. And then on Sunday, on the way home, because it's on the way home, we go to Gingerbread University. Now this is a college. I've belated. I've graduated, I have a degree. I was going back for my master's. Now Brinn has gone and she's an amazing artist. So you go and like they give you the candy and you
decorate your gingerbread house. Or you could decorate a ginger man or ginger person or ginger woman, or ginger bay or ginger cheat. You can decorate a ginger anything you want. And I had they had a chocolate gingerbread house this year, so I got to decorate a chocolate house because like, there are a lot of blackbarns now in the Hampton, So I did a blackbarn. But and she stayed in there for an hour and a half extra. After my hour, I was like running at it. Gas I went back
out into the car and it's just like relaxing. I'm like, you're a crafts woman, so honor your craft. She came out. You'll see it on my social media. It's like fucking Pablo Picasso did her gingerbread house. It's like she's it's insane. It's so stunning, but it's so meaningful. Toss that we do this every year, and some years we haven't been able to get out there, and then we just buy a gingerbread house and all the candy and you can do it yourself at home, but we like the ritual
of going there. It's so meaningful and she really relies because I don't have a big family on my side, and our version of family is these moments that we never miss. We have not missed one Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular except for the pandemic since she was like I want to say two to three, Like I've stuck to that. Every year, go to the Radio City Christmas Show. Then we go look at the tree sometimes. Now a new ritual is the jingle Ball every year.
I think we did it two years and then to make it easier and faster to go see the Sax windows even though it's late at night and we're tired. Then we drive after the jingle Ball in pajamas in the car because we've been decked out, and we get undressed in the car to then go look at the Sax windows. No one's there. It's twelve o'clock, you know, it's eleven fifty five at night, And we look at the tree and we take a picture and then meet
means like less stress. On the Radio City day, we buy an ornament which goes on our memory tree, like we really do it. When she was a little kid, we did Macy's every year. I just think that whatever your version of that is. Is it that two nights before Christmas you go ice skating somewhere or you go you know, just whatever it is. But we've built them and we've stuck to them, and we love them. And this year there's a new ritual of waking up in
the morning. We're getting home the night before from skiing, and she wants to drive out to the Hamptons from Connecticut on the day of Christmas, like take a drive. She doesn't want to be driven. We have a driver. She wants to make a meaningful and the two of us get in the car in pajamas and if there's a Starbucks open, we stop. She loves the ritual because I love the ritual. And last year we couldn't. The twenty fourth we traveled and like it was like a
Christmas movie. We almost dink it back for Sana and we were freaking out. We wanted to beat Sanna, like you know home. We got home like in the middle of the night and still made it for presents in the morning. And we're traveling the twenty fourth. So I hope that the ritual isn't that we always have like a terrible adventure where it takes us twenty one hours
to get home, but we're honoring the season. And while I tell people to make it meaningful, full for them and not be marketed, to make it meaningful for you in your own way? Is that being alone? Is that wearing fuzzy socks and pajamas? Is it that every year you do your own thing, you know it doesn't have
to be expensive. That I can definitely tell you because we could have gone to the jingle Ball and met tons of stars, and we could have gone to Nobu and run into Adam Sandler if it was a Sunday night, and we chose to do our meaningful, warm Charlie Brown Christmas Tree, and we're so happy. It connected us so much, so so much so that this morning whom was going to school and she said, Mom, I only have acting for the first for the first class. Can I come
in and snuggle with my mama? And she crawled into my bed and we did like an hour, were like warm body, mom, teenager snuggle and it was like eating like warm, delicious, like oatmeal with like fresh like maple syrup and brown sugar and like butter. It was delicious that snuggle. So it all means something, and I believe that she's not. She's thirteen, so she's not connecting it. But taking that weekend to bond all weekend was meaningful. And with our kids. You know, you could think you're
with your kids because they're home all day. They're in their room, they're doing homework, they're talking to their teen friends, they're putting their makeup on, they're growing out with their boys, they're doing whatever, or you have kids over, or you're with all your kids and you're not really bonding with one per se. The one on one time is really important because and doing these little adventures because it really bonds you. So it bonded Brennan and I in a
way that's different. Many other times we could be together but not really together. So that's important to me.