--- title: Mom Photographing Football Game and Carrying Kids Goes Viral description: Dallas Morning News captured a powerful moment of a working mom carrying two kids and a baby bottle all while photographing a football game. canonical: https://time.com/4488549/melissa-wardlow-working-mom-football-photographer/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-12T21:43:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:03:21.841Z og:title: Mom Photographing a Football Game While Carrying Her Kids Deserves a Trophy og:description: 'I am always on the sideline' og:url: https://time.com/4488549/melissa-wardlow-working-mom-football-photographer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57e3f07daeaeb553/69887d39cd1bba265f6ff61d/super-hero-cape-career-life-success-achievment.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: super-hero-cape-career-life-success-achievment-motto-stock og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mom Photographing a Football Game While Carrying Her Kids Deserves a Trophy twitter:description: 'I am always on the sideline' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57e3f07daeaeb553/69887d39cd1bba265f6ff61d/super-hero-cape-career-life-success-achievment.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Mom Photographing a Football Game While Carrying Her 2 Kids Deserves a Trophy by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Sep 12, 2016 9:43 PM UTC  Peechaya Burroughs for TIME by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Sep 12, 2016 9:43 PM UTC A Dallas _Morning News_ contributor [captured](https://www.facebook.com/dallasmorningnews/photos/a.57907763799.71727.20946638799/10154130083273800/?type=3&theater) a powerful moment of a[ working mom,](http://motto.time.com/4436892/best-states-working-moms/) Melissa Wardlow, carrying two kids and a baby bottle all while photographing a football game.. In a Facebook post, the _Morning News_ describes Wardlow as “the ultimate multi-tasker.” In the photo, she’s talking to her son Jordan, 3, while Addison, 8-months, faces her front. Wardlow’s husband is the coach of the Mansfield Lake Ridge football team, and she’s been photographing their football games for twelve years, [according](http://qz.com/779440/this-photo-of-a-working-mom-in-texas-is-the-ultimate-representation-of-working-mothers/) to Quartz. “I am always on the sideline,” she said. A [similar photo](http://motto.time.com/4486568/oklahoma-sports-doctor-megan-meier/) went viral of a pregnant doctor carrying her daughter on her back while also working at a football game recently went viral. Wardlow’s children know that being strapped to her back and attending the football games is all part of the normal routine: “My three-year-old just knows that’s the drill,” she said. Baby Addison was even born on the way home from a football game in Houston. 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