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Speaker 2: Is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast Gold one at four
Speaker 2: point three Friday morning. Good morning, Rio, good morning. Welcome
Speaker 2: to your weekend, Patrina, Joe and.
Speaker 1: Yours to Christian. What are you up to, Patty?
Speaker 3: It's Audrey's birthday. Oh, I've got a fourteen year old.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, my strength got you get into teens now?
Speaker 1: Congratulations?
Speaker 3: Very different party. Yes, So we have a party every
Speaker 3: sort of second year, and so we said to it, well,
Speaker 3: it's very expensive, you have it every year. So we
Speaker 3: said to her, what do you want to do this year? Like,
Speaker 3: what did you have in mind? And she said, you know, mom,
Speaker 3: I just want to go shopping with the girls. So
Speaker 3: she's going shopping.
Speaker 1: Very strong and they have any of you one of
Speaker 1: the girls.
Speaker 3: No, So this is the thing. So we're having a lunch.
Speaker 1: I saw a lord chair so.
Speaker 2: Breaking slowly.
Speaker 3: So there is a lunch before and Chris insisted last
Speaker 3: night no, not lang, just at the local piece of shop.
Speaker 1: Wow, So you can have the lang them every week.
Speaker 2: Your daughter turning this significant birthday, just took the local
Speaker 2: pizza mom and dad.
Speaker 3: Chris thought, he said, if we booked the table. I said, yes, yes,
Speaker 3: it's all done, and Audrey goes, Dad, you're not you
Speaker 3: realize you and mum aren't on the table.
Speaker 2: With all of this, I remember suddenly being at that
Speaker 2: point where you would drop and go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he sort of like, get a clue, Chris, He's, well,
Speaker 3: like it was genuinely.
Speaker 1: Shocked us with us there. It's still you understand, but
Speaker 1: it's hard. Yes, yeah it is.
Speaker 2: I remember when we had one of those can you
Speaker 2: just drop and go and then you have to sort
Speaker 2: of you have to then come back and obviously pay.
Speaker 1: He just then it picks up for stuff.
Speaker 2: Then it's like, come on the car around the court,
Speaker 2: don't park out the front either.
Speaker 1: Well, you don't even have a seat at the restaurant.
Speaker 2: You don't want us there are style.
Speaker 3: So we might go to the movies and see Karate Kid.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, yes, I really want to see that. Oh
Speaker 2: that's a good time for awesome. Everyone's happy with that.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I hope it's good.
Speaker 1: Is it good? I don't know, it's had great reviews.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, so we're fine, and tell me this, how
Speaker 2: do you having a fourteen year old daughter?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: You know? I, oh, gosh, You've got me on the
Speaker 3: fly because I feel it's just this rush of you know,
Speaker 3: I didn't know that things were going to be for
Speaker 3: the last time. So we're feeling that very very strongly,
Speaker 3: and I'm.
Speaker 1: Going to get emotional.
Speaker 3: And next year she might be looking at doing exchange
Speaker 3: overseas and that that for me, like I'm actually feeling
Speaker 3: myself flushing up. It's fly, birdie, fly. I want her
Speaker 3: to have. Of course, all those experiences.
Speaker 2: Still breaks, but it's the right kind of heartbreak, I know,
Speaker 2: I know, heartbreaking.
Speaker 3: How how has it gone so fast?
Speaker 2: And I'm telling you now as well, just save everything
Speaker 2: and there are suddenly that all these lasts so you
Speaker 2: don't even know they are the last. But also you've
Speaker 2: got all these you've got all these firsts as well.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 1: And that's what people forget.
Speaker 2: We're very good at knowing what we're going to miss,
Speaker 2: but you don't really think about what you're going to get.
Speaker 1: And there are loads of really great firsts all coming
Speaker 1: up as well.
Speaker 3: But that's the thing that was such a mishmash because
Speaker 3: especially as both you know, busy working parents, you are
Speaker 3: just it's like a marathon, especially doing you know, breakfast.
Speaker 1: Hours, it's just running a business together.
Speaker 3: It really was. It was just getting to Friday and
Speaker 3: then you've got the weekend to rest and recuperate, and
Speaker 3: so you kind of felt like it was a rush
Speaker 3: of first steps. And Chris said to me the other night,
Speaker 3: actually he said, I don't remember Audrey starting to crawl.
Speaker 3: How did she crawl? I know she didn't like it
Speaker 3: wasn't trueuditional law force. He said, I don't remember it.
Speaker 3: And I said, don't feel bad because I don't remember
Speaker 3: her first stick.
Speaker 1: No, no, I don't know. I know.
Speaker 2: It's really frightening. And you suddenly think, oh my god,
Speaker 2: I'm now like my parents. You get any going. How
Speaker 2: could you not remember that?
Speaker 3: I should remember that? And I feel like a bad
Speaker 3: parent for it. It's like if only if you could
Speaker 3: just have that that time there. Yeah, I think everyone
Speaker 3: feels the same do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's incredible, But what I will say is like
Speaker 2: they put too much emphasis on like you know, Gole's
Speaker 2: camping trips with your kids. But I caught it like
Speaker 2: quality junk time. And actually some of the some of
Speaker 2: the best times with the girls, they just want you
Speaker 2: to hang out with them. It isn't really about what
Speaker 2: you're doing. And so some of my favorite memories really
Speaker 2: my time being a dad, it's actually just been on
Speaker 2: a couch, laughing, watching TV with snacks. The fact if
Speaker 2: that if I had to choose how I ended this world,
Speaker 2: it'd be on a couch with the kids, snacks and
Speaker 2: a glass of wine as well, it will be doing
Speaker 2: that that, So just save all Yeah, and also you've
Speaker 2: got loads more You've got loads more time ahead.
Speaker 3: It just you know, it feels like it's slipping through.
Speaker 2: My favor And also I stood also know we're dealing
Speaker 2: with Ruby's turning twenty one in a couple of weeks time.
Speaker 2: So actually I'm having to sort of what I'm saying
Speaker 2: to you as one to say, just remind yourself that
Speaker 2: you're lucky that you've got kids that have made it
Speaker 2: this far. Yes, you know, because there are so many
Speaker 2: parents that actually get so far into it and that
Speaker 2: have access. And so I'm also counter my blessings. I've
Speaker 2: got an eighteen year old and an almost twenty one
Speaker 2: year old. Wow, what a ride. Yeah, I just have
Speaker 2: so much gratitude.
Speaker 1: Yes, of course, but wow, we so she might be
Speaker 1: leaving for a while.
Speaker 3: Next year, yeah, next year, sometime next year. I think
Speaker 3: it's around Easter time.
Speaker 2: So let's make sure we all take that time off
Speaker 2: the show to you listener as well, maybe we do
Speaker 2: a separate radio show, but tel pounds alway, because we're
Speaker 2: all going to be going through that, they're all going
Speaker 2: to be going through that fly bony fly.
Speaker 3: I've got along serviocely up my sleep.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh, you must probably be in touched like two
Speaker 2: hundred years.
Speaker 3: Maybe a'll go.
Speaker 1: That was meant as a joke.
Speaker 2: Lady following us around this Italian market looks awfully like
Speaker 2: your mum in a Berets. Well, i'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: Enjoy the weekend and enjoy it, will I will? Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, you're a great mum. She's lucky to have you.
Speaker 1: And Chris's parents we're very lucky to have her.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: They just surprise you sometimes by some of the things
Speaker 3: they say, and you think, wow, you're so mature, And
Speaker 3: I don't know why. We think we kind of not
Speaker 3: talk down to them, but we probably don't give them.
Speaker 3: I don't know the not the gratitude, but the benefit
Speaker 3: of what they what they're taking in and how they're
Speaker 3: seeing the world. And you know, really it's our it's
Speaker 3: our benefit because we've learned so much through her and
Speaker 3: see the.
Speaker 2: World's honestly, that's such a true thing. The biggest teachers
Speaker 2: in my life for my kids.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Still I've learned more about myself through being a parent.
Speaker 2: And also when you drop off tomorrow and she doesn't
Speaker 2: want you there, that's a sign that you've done a
Speaker 2: good joint, honestly, because you do see other kids that
Speaker 2: aren't there, and I actually feel sorry for them because
Speaker 2: actually that's not doing it right. If you've done it healthy,
Speaker 2: they should feel really loved and safe when you're not there.
Speaker 1: It shouldn't be that they have to have you around
Speaker 1: to feel safe. Exactly.
Speaker 2: So, even though you will be a bit like bloody ell,
Speaker 2: go and join the us out karate kit. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: don'gla bub that's her karate kit. They're going day drinking
Speaker 2: again in that ninety all right, we'll get into double
Speaker 2: thumbs up coming up next to Patsy enjoying tomorrow and
Speaker 2: hebe already has a great birthday all right. Coming up
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