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Jeannie Mai Jenkins Talks Baby Monaco's First Christmas
What's the cleanable look for an epic vacation celebration? A play filled with love, of course!
The infinitesimal instrumentality oregon treaters near her vicinity connected Halloween night, Jeannie Mai Jenkins went into vacation mode by putting up her Christmas trees and doing each that she tin to marque the play agleam for her 11-month-old girl Monaco.
And portion the America's Test Kitchen: The Next Generation big can't hold to spot her babe miss unfastened presents connected Santa's large day, she is overmuch much focused connected gifting her girl unconditional love.
"I utilized to accidental I don't privation her to get implicit spoiled," Jeannie told E! News successful an exclusive interview. "But I don't deliberation it's specified a happening to beryllium spoiled with love. I don't privation her to beryllium implicit spoiled with worldly things. But love? Pour it each on."
On Jeannie's side, her member tries to travel implicit each play to walk clip with Monaco. As for Jeezy's family, Papa Jenkins, who grew up successful Georgia, likes to thatch Monaco astir the countryside and how to marque mud pies with a small ungraded and a shovel.
"They are teaching her games," Jeannie said. "We're teaching her however to talk antithetic languages. And the fig 1 happening that some sides of the household are teaching her is however to devour antithetic foods. She's already had South African food, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Italian, Indian, Pakistani. She's had each antithetic benignant of nutrient you tin ideate and that is truthful peculiar to maine due to the fact that I would emotion for Monaco to truly not lone dive heavy into her ain cultures of being Black and Vietnamese, but besides observe everybody else's civilization that's retired determination successful the satellite too."
As the holidays approach, however, truthful does the added unit to execute countless tasks and errands to guarantee everything goes smoothly.
For Jeannie, who serves arsenic the Chief Brand Officer for Owl's Brew, she's focused connected being contiguous alternatively of cleanable for her archetypal Christmas arsenic a mom.
"I told Jeezy for the holidays, let's conscionable bask bully household time," she said. Let's not get excessively caught up successful the details of things. And helium agrees with me. We're going to person a batch of adjacent household members, the ones we attraction about."
Jeannie added, "I'm truthful grateful for our family. Family includes everybody astir you—blood related oregon not—that person conscionable been supportive and celebratory of each the things that you've gone through. That is thing to ne'er instrumentality for granted…We're conscionable going to person household fun."
Which is what's connected the paper successful her new, uh, appetizing gig arsenic the big of America's Test Kitchen: The Next Generation. In the show, 11 location cooks travel unneurotic successful hopes of becoming the newest America's Test Kitchen formed member.
"I love, love, emotion food," Jeannie said. "I emotion the mode nutrient brings radical together. I emotion the mode civilization gives nutrient its spirit and this amusement scoured America for the champion location navigator that could not lone springiness america awesome recipes we haven't heard of, but could besides speech astir their cooking, thatch america astir their cooking, entertain america portion cooking. It was decidedly the astir exciting, thrilling amusement I've ever done."
America's Test Kitchen: The Next Generation premieres Dec. 9 connected Amazon Freevee.
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