Hoda Kotb Shares What Her Daughters Gave Her for Mother’s Day

Hoda Kotb is experience all the adore this Mother’s Day.

“Lucky me!” Kotb, 59, wrote by means of Instagram on Saturday, May possibly 11, one working day ahead of the holiday. “Happy mother’s working day ❤️❤️.”

The These days co-host also shared the gift that her two daughters, Haley, 7, and Hope, 5, gave her in honor of the working day. The girls adorned frames with colorful markers and wrote sweet notes to Kotb, which include, “You are a excellent mother.” The frames had been put on a table with gold and floral Mother’s Working day-themed stickers.

Haley and Hope had been all smiles in an additional snap as they paddled all over in swim floaties and, in a subsequent pic, Kotb took a selfie with them while ingesting a food in the pool.

Kotb welcomed Haley and Hope with ex-fiancé Joel Schiffman through adoption in 2017 and 2019, respectively. (Kotb and Schiffman, 66, got engaged in 2019 but split 3 years later.)

The mom of two exposed in March that she had dipped her toe again into the courting pool — and now she shared she’s been on two dates with a secret gentleman.

“I hadn’t been on a day in two several years, because that is when our relationship, my past marriage experienced ended,” Kotb said on the Friday, Could 10, episode of The Drew Barrymore Exhibit.

Kotb, who was beforehand married to Burzis Kanga from 2005 to 2008, observed that she and her new beau are heading on a third date together.

“I feel it was just the type of entertaining of speaking about a thing that was not young children and wasn’t function,” she reported. “It was just existence, and I skipped that. And he’s definitely handsome.”

Even though she didn’t title names, Kotb famous that she felt like a “pleaser” in her most latest romance.

“If he was delighted, then I would be content. I want[ed] him to be [happy]. … I was not myself,” she discussed. “And now, I’ve gotten to a stage exactly where if the date’s not for me, and it’s Alright, I’ll say, ‘Oh, my God. This was so a great deal fun. You’re a actually nice person.’ Like, I do not thoughts remaining myself and being self-confident and understanding what I want. I’m not twisting myself in a pretzel to make everyone truly feel great all the time since I have finished that for most of my existence, and it was exhausting.”

When it arrives to a new marriage, Kotb mentioned she’s hunting for “someone who has been in some sort of secure interactions and is aware what it is like to really like someone as a lot as we enjoy our young children.”