{"id":1309715,"date":"2019-05-01T07:38:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T13:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1805999"},"modified":"2019-05-01T07:38:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T13:38:47","slug":"carrie-underwood-i-stopped-trying-to-be-perfect-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/carrie-underwood-i-stopped-trying-to-be-perfect-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Underwood: \u201cI Stopped Trying to Be Perfect Immediately\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> 22m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

If you missed Carrie Underwood<\/a>\u2019s interview on Today<\/em> on Wednesday morning (May 1), we\u2019ve got you. We watched the whole thing<\/a>, took notes, and pulled out some of the very best parts of the conversations about being a working mom, prepping for the new tour, and trying not to try so hard.<\/p>\n

On being a working mom with a 4-year-old and a 3-month-old:<\/strong>
\u201cYou know what? It\u2019s all the same. My job\u2019s just a little different. We\u2019re all just in it together. Everything we all do is difficult in different ways. I know what it\u2019s like to juggle, and that\u2019s just what parents do.\u201d<\/p>\n

On bringing baby Jacob on the road:<\/strong>
\u201cHow many people get to take their children to work with them? As busy as we are, he\u2019s here during the day, we have a little area he can play in and I get to see him on my breaks. How many people get to do that? I\u2019m so lucky. My husband may take Isaiah with him if he goes home to visit family. But for the most part, it\u2019s gonna be The Partridge Family<\/em> pretty much.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Isaiah\u2019s adjustment to being the big brother:<\/strong>
\u201cHe loves being a big brother. He calls Jacob \u2019my baby.\u2019 He takes ownership and he\u2019s always willing to help. He\u2019s task oriented and he really likes to help out.\u201d<\/p>\n

On stage now after a rough couple years:<\/strong>
\u201cI feel a lot more confident in myself, and there\u2019s many reasons for that. The more you go through in life \u2014 even though at the time you\u2019re not really understanding why things happen the way they happen \u2014 when you come out on the other side, you still might not exactly understand why, you come out stronger. And you take that knowledge and you just figure things out. We all have things we deal with.\u201d<\/p>\n

On her Cry Pretty tour prep:<\/strong>
\u201cSo much hard work has gone into it. We\u2019re in the final hours. We\u2019ve been rehearsing like crazy. I think everybody\u2019s running on coffee right now. Our stage is in the shape of an eye, so kind of abstract. It\u2019s not a concert, it\u2019s an experience. It\u2019s being able to see as many people as I can. I get to connect with so many people.\u201d<\/p>\n

On her very strong work ethic:<\/strong>
\u201cIt\u2019s all about putting one foot in front of the other. I write the songs I write and I work on the things I work on because that\u2019s what I\u2019m passionate about. It all goes together, so I\u2019m striving to move forward and do better.\u201d<\/p>\n

On learning to live in the moment:<\/strong>
\u201cI\u2019ve been (living) in the moment lately. I am kind of a planner, and I really do like knowing what\u2019s around every corner. And if there\u2019s anything the past couple years have taught me, it\u2019s that you don\u2019t<\/em> know what\u2019s gonna happen next. It\u2019s been good for me to be present, live in the moment and stop trying so hard to plan out the entire rest of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

On bouncing back after her second baby:<\/strong>
\u201cThe first time around, it was easier for me. Then you have unrealistic expectations about the second time. It wasn\u2019t easy. But I stopped trying to be perfect immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n

Underwood\u2019s Cry Pretty Tour 360, which also features Maddie & Tae and Runaway June, launches Wednesday night in Greensboro, North Carolina.<\/p>\n

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Alison makes her living loving country music. She’s based in Chicago, but she’s always leaving her heart in Nashville.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Alison Bonaguro 22m ago If you missed Carrie Underwood\u2019s interview on Today on Wednesday morning (May 1), we\u2019ve got you. We watched the whole thing, took notes, and pulled out some of the very best parts of the conversations about being a working mom, prepping for the new tour, and trying not to try […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1309715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 10:16:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}