Kelly Stafford conceded that she sometimes needs a bit of liquid courage to brace for the challenge of traveling with her four young daughters.
With Kelly’s husband, Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, in the twilight of his NFL playing career, Kelly has been making it a point to travel to as many of his games as possible with her kids in tow — which isn’t always a walk in the park.
“It’s horrible — I’m traveling with my kids — and I feel like people are judging me if I have a drink,” Kelly said on her podcast, “The Morning After,” on Thursday, October 2. “But I’m also like, ‘Just one?’”
Kelly, 36, and Matthew, 37, share four daughters: twins Sawyer and Chandler, 8, Hunter, 7, and Tyler, 5.
The football wife did acknowledge that not everybody is looking at her sideways about imbibing on long travel days with her girls.
“Most flight attendants as I’m leaving are like, ‘Do you want some of these shots?’” Kelly said. “I will take them, thank you so much. For when I get home.”
Kelly has never shied away from admitting that indulging in a vice every once in a while makes the parenting journey easier.
“Sometimes I feel like [weed] gummies make me a better parent,” Kelly said on her podcast in June. “They calm me down.”
She added, “I feel a little guilty saying it and it’s not like I do it every night. Sometimes I’m like, ‘S***, I’ve been a long day. I don’t want to rip my hair out or their hair out, so I’m going to just top it off with a little gummy.’”
Kelly joked that her daughters have started to notice a change in her attitude when she decides it’s gummy time.
They’re like, ‘Mommy’s nice tonight,’” she joked.
“Some nights I’m really mean, some nights I’m really nice,” she added. “I feel like it’s a good balance.”
Kelly noted that Matthew, who is currently in his 17th NFL season and fifth with the Rams, is “fine” with his wife’s gummy habit.
“As long as they’re in bed, fed and happy and feel loved, who cares how they get there,” he has told her.
Kelly — who got married to Matthew in 2015 after meeting during their time at the University of Georgia — has also previously spoken about the difficulties of traveling with her four daughters to their dad’s away games.
Last month, Kelly detailed the “hell” of getting all of her girls ready for a flight to Philadelphia to see the Rams play the Eagles after all four of her daughters had soccer games on the same day.
“We get to the airport and I have to shower all of them,” Kelly said on the September 23 episode of her podcast. “A lot of hair when you have four girls.”
She added, “It clogs the drains. It does all the bad stuff. And it takes a f*** ton of time.”
Despite the franticness, Kelly gave kudos to her daughters for being good troopers on the road.
“I don’t give them enough credit,” she admitted. “They were fantastic this whole trip, even with the minor mishaps and mommy being stressed out.”
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