“I just feel like a better gift would be a life memory”
Drew Barrymore has revealed the special and unique Christmas tradition she has put in place for her children.
The star shares two daughters- Olive, 11, and Frankie, 9 – with her ex-husband, Will Kopelman.
Instead of rushing out to the shops to buy Christmas presents every year, Drew opts to gift her kids a ‘life memory’.
Speaking to the Today Show in 2022, the ’50 First Dates’ actress shared that she values experiences over material gifts.
“I always take them on a trip every Christmas. I don’t get them presents, which I think at their ages they don’t love, but I say, ‘I think we’ll remember the place and the photos and the experience and that’s what I want to give you.|
“They get plenty of things throughout the year, so I’m not like some weird, strict, cold mom who’s like, ‘You don’t get any gifts!’ I just feel like a better gift would be a life memory,” the mum reasonsed.
“I’d rather invest [in that than in] a dollhouse or something. It all evens out and it’s fine.”
There was one year, however, when ‘The Drew Barrymore Show’ host made an exception and bought presents for Christmas – when Covid prevented her and her family from taking a trip together.
When it comes to the holidays, the mum-of-two grounds herself to remain stress free but remembering that ‘one holiday won’t be probably the same as one 10 years from now, that your life can dramatically change, and new people and new traditions can come into it’.
“I like looking at the holidays through a comedic, realistic lens of, we’re gonna have a lot of different holiday stories.
“What one do you want to keep going and build as a tradition? Rather than, ‘This is my tradition and I’m stuck in it.’”
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