This has been a difficult year for millions of people all over the world, but country music star Carrie Underwood is managing to find the positive side of life in quarantine amidst the coronavirus pandemic. In fact, Underwood opened up in a new interview this week about how the COVID-19 lockdown changed her life for the better.

“I mean, when you do look at this year, the way it started, [I said], ‘This is what I’m going to do, I’m going to make a Christmas album, I’m going to do these [things,] X, Y, and Z,’ and then everything gets changed,” Underwood said, according to  Us Weekly.

“Early on, I feel like I did a pretty good job of saying, ‘OK, how do we circumvent our situation and what we do?’ And I feel like it brought me a bigger sense of peace in knowing that I was not in control and still, like I said, just continuing to move forward,” the 37 year-old former “American Idol” winner added.

Underwood went on to say that after years of being on the go non-stop, she was grateful to have some time to slow down.

“I’m very lucky. I do have two incredible boys and my husband, and we live on a farm, and I kind of got to maybe get back to some of my roots by not being on stage for a minute,” she explained. “I got to be outside so much and I got to work in the garden and just be a mom and be a wife and be at home. It’s the most I’ve been still in over 15 years.”

This comes just one year after Underwood shocked her fans by going on tour right after giving birth.

“Getting married and starting a family, you see some women in the music industry talk about how they chose not to have a family because they were focused so much on their career. I kind of took the opposite route and I’m just like, I can have it all,” she recalled. “I had my son Jake, and three months [later], we had our first show on the ‘Cry Pretty’ tour. I was like, ‘I can do this’ and we made it through.”

Despite this, Underwood is proud to be am working mom.

“It was all worth it,” she said. “I also love that my kids are going to remember, hopefully, some of these times and be like, ‘Wow, my mom was [a] mom but she was also [more].’ Which is such a cool, cool thought to have.”