Hoda Kotbis soaking up every moment of her time at home with her girls.
TheTodayjournalist, 54, is currently on maternity leave from her daytime hosting gig, spending her days bonding with her daughtersHope Catherine, 3 months, andHaley Joy, 2.
But she made a much-welcomed appearance on the show via video on Friday — incidentally,Jenna Bush Hager‘s last day before she takes offfor her own maternity leave! — where she opened up about being a mother of two and how her kids havealready developed such a special relationship.
“I’m trying to remember everything,” she went on. “I look around and look at what they’re doing because I feel like we miss so much of our kids’ lives, and I will again in a little bit. We all do, and that’s life, but sometimes you get a window where you don’t miss,and this is my tiny kind of moment.”
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Kotb admitted that although she feels like she has “loved every minute of” her 54 years up until this point, “If there’s a window or a moment in my life that has mattered more than anything, it’s right now.”
“I know it’s sort of weird that I’m taking this much [leave], but I just feel like sometimes in life you don’t know how much of your kids’ lives you’re gonna be able to see,” said the longtime television journalist,who welcomed Hope via adoptionin April and Haley via adoption in February 2017.
“You just don’t know,” she added. “But I was saying to myself, I’m not going to miss right now. … If there’s a window or moment in my life that has mattered more than anything, it’s right now.”
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Between giving updates on her adorable girls and discussing her forthcoming bookI Really Needed This Today: Words to Live By, Kotb gave her boyfriend of six yearsJoel Schiffmanmad props for his serious dad skills.
“Joel’s doing the backstroke in estrogen,” she joked of her “saint” of a partner. “This poor guy is wandering around this house filled with women and girls and listening to all of our babble. They don’t make ’em like Joel.”
“Imagine telling a man with a grown daughter in law school, ‘Hey, Iwant to adopt another child,’ ” Kotb continued, laughing. “He was like, ‘We’re doin’ it!’ So I hit the boy jackpot too.”
I Really Needed This Today: Words to Live By, out Oct. 15, is available for pre-order now onamazon.com.
source: people.com
