Trisha Yearwood Still Requires Her Grown Children to Decorate the Christmas Tree As a Family
The holidays are a busy time of year for everyone, but they’re especially hectic for a married pair of country superstars. Still, their packed schedules don’t keep Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks from practicing their favorite annual tradition: decorating the Christmas tree as a family.
And that includes the participation of Brooks’s daughters from his first marriage, Taylor, August, and Allie Brooks. They’re all in their 20s, living separately and leading their own busy lives, but they make it a point to come together for the same moment every year.
"The biggest tradition we've done since the girls were little is to decorate the tree together, and even though we are all in different places and the girls are grown, that is still a tradition," Yearwood told The Boot. Somehow, they always make it work.
"Our tree might get decorated at Thanksgiving, it might get decorated the day before Christmas, but that is the one thing we hold true to," she added. "And the girls, when they were little—I know we're all the same way, but [there are] things your parents do when you're a kid that you're like, 'Ugh, why are we doing this?' As you get older, it becomes important to you."
The simple gathering has definitely become meaningful to the girls as well. "I probably would have let the tradition go, but they're like, 'No, we have to decorate the tree together,'" Yearwood said. "So it's something we continue to do.” She recalled jumping through similar hoops with her own family growing up: “We just make sure that we have time to be together. It may not be on the day, but we make sure that, on the holidays, we have everybody in one place,” she said.
And what’s a holiday tradition without the perfect soundtrack? Thankfully, Brooks and Yearwood have that covered. They’ve both worked on multiple holiday albums over the years. "I like mixing traditional songs that everybody knows in with newer songs,” the “Forever Country” singer said. “I used to think, 'Well, nobody wants to hear my version of "Jingle Bells," because everybody's done one.' But then I realized, you kind of do want to hear everybody's version of those songs!"
She covered a few of those classics onstage at this year’s CMA Country Christmas special, including “Silver Bells,” “Jingle Bell Rock,” and “Winter Wonderland,” along with her holiday original “It Wasn’t His Child.” She also hosted the event.
So far this year, her tree may not be decorated just yet, but she has at least put out one decoration. “Merry Christmas!” she captioned an Instagram video of a bulldog statue wearing a Santa hat. “And Go Dawgs!”
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