Sheryl Crow : How Motherhood has Changed Her

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Being a single mom of two boys, Sheryl Crow describe her feeling after she touched the motherhood the moment she adopted her first son, Wyatt Steven Crow, 3 years old handsome boy in the July issue of ELLE.

“He changed my life completely,” she says, just like any mother she has changed her priority to her little boys happiness. “I’ve really put roots down with him. His happiness is my priority.”

In 2008, she shared her thoughts about being a single mom.

“For my whole life, I had a pretty clear picture of what my life was supposed to be. I was supposed to have a big career but at the same time a husband, the house and the kids. That’s what I knew. That’s what a successful life consisted of,” she said.

“A family doesn’t always look like girl meets boy, they fall in love, they get married, they have a kid,” Crow went on. “I said, ‘OK, I’m going to let go of what I think things are supposed to look like, because I can’t control anything. When I try to control things, that’s when I keep things from happening.’

“Two days before Wyatt came, I finished a Stop Global Warming college tour.

“When a baby comes into your life, the environment becomes so personal. Having him around, this little innocent spirit, really made me fearless about writing what I wanted to write and about not being afraid of who I was going to piss off. It created a lot of urgency about that.”

With kids running around, with his laughs and cries fill her home, definitely has change her home environment. There’s more for a woman who has been through many obstacles in her life, being aware of life itself.

“One thing I’ve learned about children and antiques, is that you just have to let go.”

“I try to re-create and reuse everything, no matter how tattered,” she says. “I think that’s definitely part of my love for acquiring and appreciating other people’s cast-off stuff. If I can reuse something or give it a new life, that’s definitely better than throwing it out.”

Mother of Levi James Crow, 7 weeks, who she adopted last June, explains her reason to stay at her Nashville farm with her two boys,
“This was the first place I ever bought,” she says, “and it has always been special for me. I loved the years when I lived here fulltime. Everybody in this building either grew up here or raised their kids here, and you can just tell that this is a place that has held a lot of life and a lot of good memories.”

“I love being on the road. But having a home, both as a place and a state of being, is paramount.”

She’s pointing to Wyatt and says, “Look at him, he’s like a Labrador— he needs to be outside, running around”