Jana Kramer Won’t Have Kids Jolie and Jace on Christmas Eve This Year, Shares Post-Divorce Holiday Plans

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Christmas — her way! Jana Kramer‘s ex-husband Mike Caussin will spend Christmas Eve with their children after their divorce, and the One Tree Hill alum has accepted the alternating arrangements.“I’m gonna pick up the kids on Christmas Day. … I’m going somewhere because I don’t have the kids for a week,” Kramer, 38, said during an Instagram Story Q&A on Saturday, December 10. “So, I’ll come back from that vacation [on] Christmas Eve.

But I’m just gonna pretend like it’s a normal regular day and not Christmas Eve because it’s gonna make me sad.”She added: “I’ll pick [Jolie and Jace, my kids] up Christmas Day at noon and then that’s gonna be Christmas Eve, so we’ll put out the cookies for Santa, we’re gonna leave the letter and the stuff for the reindeers and Santa because it’s magic — and he’s gonna come Christmas night.”The “Story” songstress — who shares daughter Jolie, 6, and son Jace, 4, with the former football player, 35 — will then be able to watch her little ones “run down the stairs” and see their presents from Santa the following morning. “We’re making it our own this year and I’m really excited about it,” Kramer added on Saturday.The Michigan native — who finalized the dissolution of her marriage to Caussin in July 2021 — has long known this year’s festive season would be difficult “from the moment that I signed the divorce papers.”“I was dreading this holiday,” Kramer admitted in her social media upload. “‘Cause I knew the first holiday I had them Christmas Eve night and I always knew that this one was going to be the first [I was alone] and it was going to be extremely hard.”However, the Steppin’ Into the Holiday actress is relieved that Jolie and Jace “don’t know what day it is,” which makes it easier to