Hoda Kotb’s TODAY Show co-anchor knows her so well.
When Savannah Guthrie and her family visited Hoda’s new house on Sept. 15, they were careful to stay no longer than 30 minutes.
“I have to say, Savannah understands, and she was like, ‘We’re coming and going,’” Hoda told Jenna Bush Hager Sept. 16. “They came in, they ate some cupcakes, they walked around, and the kids were on the swings for 10 minutes.”
Then Savannah gathered up her crew, which includes her husband, Michael Feldman, and their children, Vale, 10, and Charley, 7. It was time to get back on the road.
“I mean I was there for about three minutes,” Jenna joked to a laughing Hoda about her own visit. “So 30 is, like, she might as well have spent the weekend.”
Hoda daughters, Haley, 7, and Hope, 4, appear to be natural hostesses. Before Savannah and her family arrived, the sisters got to work in the kitchen preparing snacks.
“So Hope started putting in carrots and blueberries in random bowls and was just going to leave them out,” Hoda said on the show. “And Haley was like, ‘No! That’s not right.’”
At that point, Haley moved the produce to the freezer for “unknown reasons,” according to Hoda.
“I would say entertaining is something you’re new to,” Jenna told Hoda. But in a few months, she’ll likely be a pro, thanks to all the practice she’s getting.
“A woman came over, she’s like, ‘I live across the street, here’s a pie. And here’s my daughter, she’s in your high school,’” Hoda recalled. “You know what I said? I said, ‘Come inside!’”Earlier this year, Hoda compared the life changes she is navigating to “repotting.”
“I feel like I’m in this repotting phase of my life,” Hoda said on her “Making Space” podcast. “I just feel it. I feel like my roots need a bigger pot, in all kinds of things. I’m physically moving with my kids, which was a big deal for us.
“I realize, especially in recent weeks, that I’m making space to be a better mother and a better sister and a better worker,” she added.
