Al Roker Shares His Favorite Family Tradition for the Holidays After Return from Hospital

The Today show weather anchor, 68, is home with family recovering this Christmas season amid his ongoing health issues

Asked when he would be returning to work, Roker explained he needed a little more time to recover.

“You lose a certain amount of muscle mass for every week you’re in the hospital, and I was in the hospital for 4 weeks. So it’s just a certain amount of weakness,” Roker said, adding he’s doing physical and occupational therapy every day. “I’ve got to just get my strength back. And in the meantime, I was thinking in January of getting my knee replaced, so l’ve got to push that back. So l’ve got a number of issues.”

Al Roker is feeling good this holiday season thanks to his adult children.

The Today show weather anchor, 68, revealed on the NBC morning show what his favorite family tradition with his wife, Deborah Roberts, 62, and their children – daughter Leila, 24, and son Nick, 20.

“Now it’s, ‘Oh, we’ll get up around 9 o’clock.” And that’s just great,” Roker said.

I feel good, I feel strong. And every day, I feel al little bit better,” he added, noting that he made dinner one night.

“My favorite family tradition is not everybody fighting.

That’s a great thing,” he said. “If that happens — you can get your adult children together and their significant others and everything is fine? Win-win.”

Roker, who is home recovering from ongoing health issues, added that he’s even more excited to not have young children that require him to search the stores for the latest toys or wake up early on Chirstmas day.

“My kids — look, it’s different now that they’re older,” Roker said. “Holiday shopping becomes much simpler.

They’re not looking for the hot toy or anything like that.”

He even boasted that he’s no longer “getting up at 6 a.m. in the morning because the little ones are up.”