Jenna Bush Hager Just Found A Sweet Christmas Gift From Late Grandmother Barbara Bush
Jenna Bush Hager just revealed that she found a sweet Christmas gift from her late grandmother, former first lady Barbara Bush.
Barbara made Christmas stockings for the family and had some "reserves" for great-grandchildren.
Jenna called the unexpected gift a “beautiful blessing” for her baby son, Hal.
Jenna Bush Hager has experienced a lot of changes in her family over the past few years. While she welcomed her baby son Hal three months ago, she also lost her grandfather and both grandmothers last year.
Apparently, one of Jenna’s grandmothers, former first lady Barbara Bush, was thinking about her future great-grandchildren, because the Today co-host just discovered that Barbara created "reserves" of embroidered stockings for them.
“I found out I was pregnant the week after my grandfather died, and I lost my three living grandparents in one year,” Jenna told People in a new interview. Jenna’s grandfather, former president George H.W. Bush died in November 2018, just six months after his wife, Barbara, and Jenna’s maternal grandmother, Jenna Welch, died in May.
Jenna pointed out that baby Hal is “the first baby that won’t get to meet these people that were such an important part of my life.”
“But, I will say, and this is such a beautiful thing—my grandmother, my dad’s mom, needlepointed a lot of stockings, reserves, for great-grandchildren that would be after she died,” the Sisters First author continued.
Jenna said she knew Barbara had been making stockings but she didn’t know if “there was enough” for her new baby.
“She tirelessly worked,” Jenna said. “And so my aunt just emailed me on Friday and said, ‘What address should I send Hal’s stocking to?’”
Jenna called the stocking a “beautiful blessing” and a “beautiful thing” that her late grandmother did. “[Hal] will never met her, but they’re so ingrained, I mean, literally in this case, in the fabric of our family—that he’ll have a stocking that his great-grandmother sewed.”
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Jenna said she also hopes her baby will get to know her grandparents in other ways. “I know that through my grandparents' letters and their stories and the way that they raised us, he’ll get to know them,” she said.
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