For most families with little kids, mornings are an absolute mess. Kids are waking up way too early. They’re refusing to eat their breakfast. And why can no one find their shoes?!
But it sounds like Tan France has the most idyllic mornings with his husband Rob and their two adorable kiddos, Ismail, 2 and Isaac, 6 months. In an interview with Today.comahead of the release of Home at Last — a new series with Architectural Digest that shows how the fashion expert designed his home — Tan discussed the bay window. It’s something his sister always wanted growing up, but his family could never afford it.
“With this house, I created a window at the front of the house with a window seat that I call her window,” the Queer Eyestar said. “That makes it feel like my family is still with me even though they’re still so far away.”
The window is so much more than a beautiful design element and a source of natural light for the France family. It is also a gathering place.
“Every day, we spend time in that little nook, me, my two kids and my husband,” France said. “We watch the sunrise in the morning. The kids wake up exceptionally early to watch the sunrise together; I feed my youngest in that space.”
Are you kidding me?! The “exceptionally early” part sounds relatable, but you sit in your bay window seat and watch the sunrise together? That’s the most wholesome and enviable thing we’ve ever heard.
France also got candid about what this move has been like for his toddler. It was an “upsetting” adjustment for Ismail to move from the only home he’s ever known.
“The hardest part of this move has been explaining to Ismail (that he has a new home), because for the first couple of days, he kept talking about home,” France said. “He just wanted to go home.”
And so, France had the genius idea to make Ismail’s room look exactly like his old one. It was a comforting form of familiarity that helped him adjust. After a while, he stopped asking to go home and is now just “so entertained” by everything that’s new in this house that France is calling his “dream home.”
A dream home that he and Rob hope to pass down to their two sons one day. Their two sons. In a recent interview with Us Weekly, France insisted that his family of four would not be growing.
“If you look back at any interview from two years [ago] … I always said I want four kids,” he said. “And now, we are…officially 100 percent done at two.”
And how will he keep that promise? By never forgetting “how hard” parenting is. “It’s a struggle, I’m not going to lie. I’d love to pretend,” he shared. “I need people to know how hard it is. I don’t think people talk about it enough.”
It absolutely is, France. But in those hard moments, we hope you can think back on your morning ritual and remember just how special it is too.
Before you go, check out these celebrity parents who welcomed their babies via surrogate.
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