Lacy Chabert Christmas movies have us all looking forward to the holiday season.
But what does she cherish about celebrating yuletide?
Typically, we film [HallmarkChristmas movies] in the summer, or late summer, early fall.
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So come summertime, I kind ofkick off the Christmas spirit, even if it’s 100 degrees outside.
Then I’m inspired to start celebrating early as soon as the movies start airing and we start promoting.
I know it seems a bit early to some people, but I enjoy it.
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Are you ever tired of Christmas by the time December rolls around?
No, not at all.
I genuinely love Christmas and anyone who knows me knows that I’m pretty Christmas obsessed.
You would think I would be tired of Christmas, but no.
You know some of those quintessential Hallmark scenes that we film?
I just enjoy living them in real life.
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What are some of your favorite family Christmas traditions?
I have started to realize how much I love our traditions now that I’m a mom.
We have awhite elephant-style partyand and all end up fighting for a particular gift that is so silly.
We eat and we cook the same things every year.
There are recipes that have been passed down from my grandmother and my great-grandmother and my mom.
It’s stuff that I grew up eating as a child during the holidays.
I love the tradition of doing the same thing year after year.
What are some of your favorite Christmas movies?
You mentioned that your family has holiday food traditions.
What are some of the recipes that you cook every Christmas?
Is your family still in the South?
Yeah, everyone lives in Texas now.
I think those are definitely the same in both places.
You grew up in Purvis, Mississippi, near your grandmother.
Were there any holiday traditions you two shared?
We lived next door to my grandmother and we’d walk over her house constantly.
One of my favorite childhood memories is baking with my grandmother in her kitchen.
She passed away this year.
She had such a precise way of doing thingsyou had to do everything exactly the way it was planned.
She was very much into following the recipe and she was a bit of a perfectionist.
No one had morebeautifully wrapped Christmas giftsthan her, so we try and do her proud.
She also made all of her own Christmas bows.
She taught me how, so I know how to make a pretty good Christmas bow too.
And did you have Christmas recipes that you would make together?
Coconut cakewas the really special one at Christmas.
It was delicious, but you weren’t allowed to eat it before it dried.
We would stand there just waiting, counting the minutes until we were allowed to dive in.
Do you have a favorite Southern Christmas memory?
I was four or five.
We were even more excited about the snow than opening our presents, which is saying a lot!
