After attending Robin Thicke’s wedding over the weekend, Kelly Stafford has returned home only to find herself at her breaking point.
Stafford, 36, and her husband, Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, were in attendance when Thicke, 48, married his wife, April Love Geary, in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico on Friday, May 30.
“I need breaks from my kids, just like everyone else does,” Kelly said of the couple’s three-day getaway on the Thursday, June 5, episode of her podcast, “The Morning After.”
Once back in L.A., Kelly was forced to deal with a problem involving her 4-year-old daughter, Tyler, which she said had been “kind of eating at me for the last six months.”
The issue surrounded Tyler’s incessant desire to have his mother sing her “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” at bedtime.
“I tell myself she’s not going to ask forever,” Kelly said. “But I’m f***ing tired. It makes me so sad to say this, but even the extra 15 minutes with her, or 15 seconds, feels long. Which is a horrendous thing to say.”
She added, “I feel like a horrendous mother because she will ask me to do one simple thing before putting her down. I will do it now once every four times.”
Kelly and Matthew, 37, who got married in April 2015, also share twin daughters Sawyer and Chandler, 8, and Hunter, 6.
“I want to be better,” Kelly admitted. “But I was back for three days. I come back and she asks me [to sing]. I did it, but reluctantly. How terrible is that?”
She continued, “I need to remember she’s my baby and she’s still only 4 years old. I just have to be better with her. And a lot more patience. Because Matthew and I are both losing patience with that one. She just doesn’t shut up.”
Kelly explained that Tyler didn’t waste any time in showing off her verbal veracity after she and Matthew returned from the wedding.
“We get home and Tyler — I love her so much, I really do — but her new thing is, ‘Can I tell you something? Can I tell you something? Hey mommy, can I tell you something? Mommy, guess what, can I tell you something?’” Kelly said. “Within five minutes of being home, I was like, ‘Tyler, you need to calm down, stop talking. I need five minutes.’”
Things have gotten so tenuous within the Stafford household that Kelly and Matthew have resorted to laying down some guidelines for Tyler.
“We made a rule that she couldn’t talk until she ate her dinner,” Kelly explained. “Because she would talk the entire dinner and never eat.”
Kelly added, “45 minutes later she’d be there eating because everyone left. No one to talk to.”
