Carrie Underwood: Christmas As A Kid Was ‘Comforting’
Carrie Underwood loves Christmas time and proved her love for the holiday with her My Gift Christmas album, which she released in 2019. Carrie has often talked about the holidays with us and, not long ago, shared with us what her Christmas was like as a child in Oklahoma.
She told us, “For me growing up, Christmas was always just comforting. We always had the same stockings, and the same tree, and the same decorations, and we would always decorate the weekend right after Thanksgiving. You know, flip the Christmas switch, put the tree up. Now that we’re adults and have kids, we can go to the Christmas tree farm, and we can walk around, and we can pick out which one and ask Isaiah, ‘Which one do you think?’ Just things like that, making those memories. It’s just a joyful time of year.”
As a kid, Underwood and her family opted for a fake tree to make things easier. She offered, “We were an artificial tree family growing up. you know, but now in our own home, we do the real tree thing, and we kind of try to make that a little bit of a tradition. We go and we pick it out.”
She continued, “The boys have some say in which one we get, and they feel some ownership, and we all decorate it together and, of course, have Christmas music playing in the house. I make cookies that were my husband’s grandmother, that my kids call Gigi. It’s her recipe, her ginger snap cookies, and we make those, and it’s super sweet. Isaiah loves to make Gigi’s cookies because he still remembers her a little bit. So, it’s something special we get to do.”
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Carrie knew as a kid what Christmas was all about, “Christmas was always just about family. One thing that we always did growing up that was one of my favorite memories, we would on Christmas Eve we would go to my grandparents’ house. Us kids were always responsible for putting oranges and apples and bananas in little paper bags, and we would go down to the nursing home and sing Christmas carols.”
As an adult with her sons and husband Mike, she has started a new tradition, “For the past few years, we all get matching PJs. Either we get them, or somebody else gifts them to us, and we all match – my husband, myself, my sons, and our dogs. And getting my German shepherd into a Christmas sweater is no easy feat, I will tell you that.”
