Welcome back to another Friday Favorites — but not just any Friday Favorites…the first one of December 2025, and a super special edition at that!
This week, I decided to take a different angle and bring you inside our home for something extra festive:
The Miller Family Christmas Favorites!
I sat each family member down for a very serious (
) interview and asked them five important Christmas questions:
What is your favorite Christmas song?
Favorite Christmas movie?
Favorite Christmas décor item in our home?
Favorite Christmas tradition?
Favorite Christmas treat?
It was so much fun hearing everyone’s answers. I loved capturing their Christmas magic — right where they are in this season of life.
For reference:
Bennett is 13 • Baker is 9 • Madley is 7 • Martin is 38 • And I’m 37!
Let’s get into it!
🎶 Favorite Christmas Song
Bennett: The Present by Forrest Frank
Baker: Christmas Morning by Forrest Frank & Jake
Madley: I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
Martin: I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm by Frank Sinatra
Kari: The Christmas Song by Nat King Cole (his version is the best!)
🎬 Favorite Christmas Movie
Bennett: Elf
Baker: The animated Grinch
Madley: The Polar Express
Martin: Jingle All the Way (Arnold Schwarzenegger — classic!)
Kari: A tie between Christmas Vacation and The Holiday
🎄 Favorite Christmas Décor in Our Home
Bennett: The puffball tree
Baker: His stocking
Madley: Our gold snow globe tree
Martin: The mantle
Kari: The Christmas tree — always!
🎁 Favorite Christmas Tradition
Bennett & Baker: Christmas Eve dinner + opening gifts at my parents’ house (Bae & Papa’s!)
Madley: Opening presents on Christmas morning
Martin: Playing in the snow — sledding and building snowmen with the kids
Kari: Having soups for Christmas Eve dinner, especially in bread bowls. SO yummy.
🍪 Favorite Christmas Treat
Bennett: Reese’s Trees and DeDe’s spicy pretzels
Baker: The break-apart Christmas sugar cookies
Madley: Reindeer pancakes (Rudolph-shaped pancakes!)
Martin: Chocolate-covered pretzels — his “5-pound gainer,” as he calls it 😂
Kari: Sugar cookies, unfrosted, hot out of the oven…and they MUST be my mom’s recipe
I absolutely loved hearing all their answers — none were too surprising, but my favorite moment was Martin choosing “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm” because according to him… I am the love that keeps him warm. Cue the blush. Love that man!
I hope you enjoyed this special edition of Friday Favorites. I encourage you to try this with your own family — interview your people and write down their Christmas favorites. It’s a sweet way to look back each year and see what changes…and what stays the same.
Thanks for spending part of your day here with me.
God willing, I’ll be back Monday with more blogging fun.
Love y’all! 🎄❤️
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I have baked a lot of sugar cookies but don’t like a lot of icing on them. If your mom’s are good not iced, can you give out the recipe?
In fact, it would be great to see a KMB where you share recipes. Just a thought. Thanks Kari!
What a fun read! I love all of those Christmas movies, I need to watch Jingle All the Way, I’ve not seen it in years. You have some beautiful decorations in your home.