Interviews featuring Kelly Bates are few and far between. After all, life is busy when you have 19 children and 37 grandchildren (No. 37 just arrived this week). Still, Kelly always seems to find time to support the ventures that her family members are involved in. For Zach Bates, that venture is his cooking show, Bates Kitchen.
Kelly has been a guest on the show a few times since it started in April 2024. She appeared in one of the earliest episodes to share her chicken salad recipe and discuss Callaham family history, and she joined her oldest son earlier this year for a question and answer session. If you enjoyed those segments, you will want to tune in to the latest episode of Bates Kitchen for another interview with Kelly Bates. Some of the questions revolve around food, and others are about life in general.
She gets “interviewed” by her kids every month or two.
ReplyDeleteThat's when she talks to them. LOL
DeleteI don’t agree at all—she seems to be with her children all the time. She is much more attentive than the majority of mothers I know. She is an energetic person and her energy goes into all of her children. I always think it is strange that people think a mother can’t keep up with 19 children. When I was a teacher, I had daily personal conversations with every student in my class, knew their families, and could recognize their individual handwriting and drawings easily. Twenty years later I can still name most of them from multiple years. It is not difficult if one’s interest and attention is earnestly invested in a group of people to know them well. As a mother, Kelly Jo has kept that same number of children for all these years and now she knows their children too. She is a high capacity woman, but it is totally doable to do what she does because she focuses all her energy and devotion on them.
DeleteLove the Bates family!
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