Kristin Chenoweth Is Excited to Practice Gratitude This Christmas

Kristin Chenoweth is Christmas incarnate. The multi-hyphenate actress-singer-entertainer and palpable joy personified represents all of the merry optimism of the holiday season. She's starred in multiple Christmas movies, including A Christmas Love Story, Four Christmases, and Holidate, a new Netflix movie that has been in the U.S. top 10 list since its premier. And she even has a Christmas album that includes some holiday classics like "Silver Bells," and "The Christmas Waltz."

So what does the person who embodies all that makes Christmas great plan on doing for the holidays in the midst of an ongoing pandemic? Woman's Day caught up with Chenoweth to find out.

"I am currently in Vancouver, and when I wrap my project here I'm going directly to Oklahoma where my family is," Chenoweth tells Woman's Day. "We will cook — well, I won't cook, they'll cook — we will eat, we will laugh, we will watch TV, and that's what we plan on doing for Christmas." Chenoweth says she has a "huge" family, and unfortunately due to COVID-19, they won't all be able to come together for the holidays like they have in years past.

"We will not be gathering in big groups," she says. "Everybody is definitely masking up in my family, which I want to applaud, and we will be gathering in smaller groups and probably Zooming."

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Though video-chatting certainly isn't the same as being physically present with the ones you love during the holidays, Chenoweth says she's very grateful for the technology and the sense of community it provides. "I never thought I would say I'm grateful for something as much as I am for Zoom," she says. "I like to have connection. Of course I miss human contact, but to be able to look at my family on on a Zoom and be able to say 'I love you guys' has been a real gift during this time."

With her immediate family, Chenoweth also plans to spend the holidays indulging in her mom's famous pumpkin rolls — the one thing that definitely won't change as the result of the current public health crisis and something she looks forward to every year.

"We have to pretend that she's not very good at [baking]," she laughs. "And then we have to celebrate it."

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She'll also be practicing gratitude during a famous family Christmas tradition. "We have a ceramic Christmas tree that my mom made and on each point of the tree is a candle," she explains. "Every year on Christmas Eve, whether I'm working or they come to me, we light a candle and say what we're most grateful for. And this year especially, that will mean the most."

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