“A Home for the Holidays” has been airing for 23 years, showcasing the thousands of American children in foster care. This year’s special will be just as heart lifting, and is hosted by Kane Brown. He will also be performing.

In this year’s special, the story of several families who have made the decision to adopt a foster child will be told. Brown will get to introduce the Rodriguez family, who will be finalizing their adoption of Marjorie on camera for all of us to be able to witness.

The special will air on Sunday, December 5 at 9:30 PM ET on CBS. It will also be available on demand and to stream on Paramount+. “A Home for the Holidays” is presented in association with the “Children’s Action Network” and the “Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.”

Source: A Taste of Country

This year’s “People of the Year” honors trailblazers in their fields who have tried to help make the world a little bit better. Naturally, Dolly Parton is among those honored.

Parton created her “Imagination Library” years ago, which has provided over 160 million books to kids in need since inception.

Her giving didn’t stop during the pandemic. Early on during COVID-19, she donated $1 million to support the research happening at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. That research resulted in the Moderna vaccine, which we know has become very widely available.

Parton just has this to say — “It makes my heart feel good to know that I can do something for somebody else.” It makes ours feel good, too!

Source: PEOPLE

This will be Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani’s first Christmas as a married couple! But in the several years they spent dating prior to getting married, they established some holiday traditions that they will for sure be continuing.

“We go out of our way to find a recipe. And it’s always got to be the most difficult thing you can imagine, whether it’s, like, a Beef Wellington — which, I didn’t even know what that was until I met you,” Shelton shares, speaking to Stefani, who then replies, “The fact that you wanted to make a tradition out of … it’s almost like an anti-tradition, because a tradition is something that you’ve done your whole life, and that you keep repeating. But you keep trying to not repeat and make something new again and again and again. And that’s your tradition.”

Stefani also shared that growing up her parents were very traditional, so trying new things, even foods, around Christmas time makes her “feel like I’m going to get in trouble.”

Shelton then reveals that one of the “craziest” traditions he’s seen was in Stefani’s family.

“One of the craziest things that I learned about you and your family, as far as holiday traditions go, is the wrapping paper wall the kids run through,” he tells her. “And I’m not kidding when I talk about how serious this is to the Stefanis. Is that something you just started with Kingston first? Or is that something that you guys did as kids, that your parents did? Because I’ve never known you to take anything more serious when it comes to a party type thing than this wrapping paper wall that they run through.”

Think you’re the biggest football fan out there? Tim McGraw may have you beat!

He admits that he’s a football junkie and will watch any game. “Whoever’s playing, I’ll watch,” McGraw said. “I’ll watch every game I can. And the great thing now, I think, about football season is you can find a game just about every night of the week. Some college somewhere is playing. Somebody’s playing somewhere.”

It doesn’t even have to be NFL — he’ll watch high school and college too. He admits, “It’s almost a depression when football season is over because I miss it so much. There’s just something special about Sundays watching football and … well, every day watching football.”

Source: Tim McGraw