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Tricia Kaiser – Busy moms hunt too

Like everybody, we all have challenges in life and you’ve got some in your life with your daughter. What recommendations or ideas would you share with some other men and women that are raising kids by themselves and they do have some challenges? What would you tell them about getting those kids into the out-of-doors? Tricia Kaiser – Busy moms hunt too

Tricia: Yeah. It’s a great time to reconnect with your kids. I have three daughters. My oldest one will be 13 soon and she’s been challenging, like I said. Then my middle daughter was born with Down’s Syndrome, so that in itself is a huge daily challenge. Any kid is a challenge, but when you throw in a child with special needs, it’s that much harder. And then my little one just turned six. So we use that time as our time to spend together. Tricia Kaiser – Busy moms hunt too

It’s just really nice to have that one-on-one alone time with them that way

We don’t get a lot of Mommy-daughter time obviously. When there’s three of them it’s hard to split your time up between them. But I use that time with my girls to just reconnect with them. We’ll go out, and we’ll sit, and we’ll talk about things that bother them or stuff like that. It’s just really nice to have that one-on-one alone time with them that way. Tricia Kaiser – Busy moms hunt too

It helps me unwind and de-stress from the day-to-day schoolwork and homework. Then I work a full-time job and dealing with the stress of having a child with a disability. Tricia Kaiser – Busy moms hunt too

Tricia: I do both, mostly out of the tree stand, but if I bring my girls out with me, because they like to go sit with me once in a while, I will sit on the ground blind because I don’t like having them up in the tree yet. They’re still kinda young, so we’ll hunt out of a ground blind. But mostly in the tree.

When you think about lessons learned over the last couple of years, good ones and bad ones, can you share a couple of lessons learned with our audience?

Yeah. Bad lessons for me, don’t get too confident.

Tricia: Yeah. Bad lessons for me, don’t get too confident. Don’t go out thinking that you’re going to be, as my dad calls it, “The Great White Hunter,” and kill everything that you see. And that you know you’ve got this and you’re going to bring home this big trophy buck. Because I think letting your ego get in the was is a big thing for me.

I went out the first year — we were surrounded by deer — and I went out saying, “Yep, I’m going to kill everything I see!” And I missed three deer and that just really was like a wake-up call. Like, “Okay.” So don’t let your ego get in the way. Don’t go out and take that experience for granted.

When it comes to good lessons, for me it’s just practice. Trust yourself that you can do it. When I started with my bow, I started heavy again last year, shooting my bow, and it was the first time in about 15 years that I had shot. I was very unsure with it and I went out hunting. I thought, “This is never going to happen. I’m not going to do it.” So just trust that you can do it. Especially as a woman! Don’t let anybody tell you that you’re not good enough, or you know, girls can’t do this or girls can’t do that. Just trust that you have the skill there. Practice all of the time.

If you miss, just take it as a loss. Go back and practice shooting, or re-sight your rifle, or whatever you need to do. Just suck it up and get right back into it. Don’t let a missed shot, or a wounded animal that you didn’t find, don’t let that stop you. Don’t let it kill the passion for you.

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