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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the morning.

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Speaker 2: I know that this weekend is a big weekend for you.

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Speaker 2: Not only are you hosting a national TV show on

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Speaker 2: Sunday Night, Dancing with the Stars, which brings a degree

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Speaker 2: of anxiety, but your son is going off to university.

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Speaker 2: So I've set up everything for the bluff zone. I've

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Speaker 2: got some tissues. I've got Wendy Matthews in the background.

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Speaker 3: Look, I'm hoping I won't blood. Oh they have been

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Speaker 3: a little bit weepy about it, because it's.

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Speaker 1: Okay now I'll stop that.

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Speaker 3: Well, I've known for a year or so Leam wanted

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Speaker 3: to study away from Sydney. I hope he doesn't mind

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Speaker 3: me saying, but he's he's a bit of a homebody.

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Speaker 3: But I've spoken a lot about how my life started

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Speaker 3: when I went to bathits really and so he's off

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Speaker 3: to Newcastle UNI tomorrow and I've been trying to work

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Speaker 3: out what my emotions of it are because I'm excited

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Speaker 3: for him and I'm nostalgic for me. And part of

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Speaker 3: it is I keep thinking about Mum dropping me off

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Speaker 3: at Bathist and I wish I could ask her now,

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Speaker 3: how did that fear? Because Liam's ready to go. Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: I didn't look back. We've spoken about this before. When

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Speaker 3: you leave home, you don't look back. And I keep here.

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Speaker 3: But our home life will change forever in a great way.

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Speaker 3: And as I said, I'm excited for him and so

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Speaker 3: pleased for him. But just the four of us having

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Speaker 3: dinner together every night, that phase is over and that's

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Speaker 3: how it should be. But it's a heart And I

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Speaker 3: think about the Dixie Chick a song it's been in.

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Speaker 1: My head, not the Dixie Cheese, the song.

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Speaker 3: Wide Open Spaces. It's about a woman dropping her daughter

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Speaker 3: off at you near college, and remember when her mum

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Speaker 3: dropped her.

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Speaker 4: As a folks drive away, her Naaniels check in for

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Speaker 4: her mom, stairs out the window and says, I'm.

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Speaker 5: Leaving my girl.

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Speaker 4: She said it didn't seem like a long ago when

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Speaker 4: stood there and let it on us, Big Mass. He

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Speaker 4: knows the hag sae, he not the haltext.

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Speaker 3: He's been in my head all week, and I think

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Speaker 3: it's mostly about my mum. And I was talking to

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Speaker 3: my dad about this, and this is what I think

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Speaker 3: so interesting. He said that he's eighty five and it

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Speaker 3: just occurred to him that he used to go to

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Speaker 3: boarding school. He lived on a tiny little cane farm

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Speaker 3: in Athoden table Lands and he'd come home every six months.

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Speaker 3: He was an only child, and he said friends had

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Speaker 3: once picked him up at the station to bring him

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Speaker 3: home and they said, oh, we're going to the beach

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Speaker 3: for a week. Do you want to come? And he

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Speaker 3: said sure. They drive in to where they're living and

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Speaker 3: he sees his mom's face at the window waving at Teatowels,

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Speaker 3: so excited to see him, and he tells her he's

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Speaker 3: going to the beach for a week. And dad's eighty five,

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Speaker 3: and he cried on the phone with me, saying that

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Speaker 3: it never occurred to him how that made his mom feel.

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Speaker 3: Doesn't matter how old we are. And I said to Dad,

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Speaker 3: that's the privilege we give our children, is the right

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Speaker 3: to take us for granted. And so this is exactly

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Speaker 3: how it should be. That Leanne leaving home has died

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Speaker 3: his new life. And part of me just is a

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Speaker 3: little bit jealous, you lucky duck, this grand adventure he's

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Speaker 3: starting for you, And part of it is just sadness

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Speaker 3: for me that he's going. And I wish I could

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Speaker 3: say the month thank you anyway, there we are That's

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Speaker 3: what's happening this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Poor he's me. I'm just sitting at home cleaning up

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Speaker 1: my guddess.

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Speaker 3: I wish I could all the Dixie.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Look, he's going to be great, exciting.

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Speaker 3: It's so wonderful for him. And I bite down on

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Speaker 3: this because I don't want my emotion to tinge this

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Speaker 3: for him. And in a way you don't think, But

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Speaker 3: in a way, isn't it good that I'm going to

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Speaker 3: be in Melbourne this weekend preparing for Dancing with the

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Speaker 3: Stars so Harley will do the drop off. He doesn't

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Speaker 3: need me in his face.

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Speaker 1: You don't want you at the UNI.

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Speaker 3: That's well, absolutely so this grand adventure for him, and

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Speaker 3: I'm really happy.

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Speaker 1: Let me say this, you have raised an excellent young man.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, and you should be very proud of yourself.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Okay, thanks, all right, cover another tis ship. I'll give

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Speaker 2: you another Tishie to put some Wendy Matthews on.

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Speaker 3: No, thank you. How could you make me a cup

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Speaker 3: of tea?

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Speaker 2: Take advantage of making to be a hug and a

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Speaker 2: cup of tea.

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Speaker 1: You've done it to me. Now I've gone into.

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Speaker 3: The I know. The more we talk about it the

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Speaker 3: more blood we go.

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Speaker 2: I remember when you were pregnant with Liam, and I

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Speaker 2: know it was so hard for.

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Speaker 1: You to have a baby.

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Speaker 2: And I remember when do you remember that day with

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Speaker 2: a triple M and you came in and said, I've

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Speaker 2: had some bleeding.

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Speaker 1: I'm really worried. And I remember saying, oh, no, Helen

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Speaker 1: had that. That's natural. It happens. And I remember going

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Speaker 1: into the student sorry, and I said, please God, please.

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Speaker 3: Let you know I was a bondo junction with him

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Speaker 3: yesterday and we walked past the shop where he's to

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Speaker 3: buy him little shoes. And you know the thing is,

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Speaker 3: I'll go home today and he won't have packed a

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Speaker 3: single thing.

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Speaker 1: And about it'll be business as usual.

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Speaker 3: But these are the markers of our lives too, for

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Speaker 3: us that we're moving along our life chain. There's a

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Speaker 3: lot of emotion in all of this. Is that that

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Speaker 3: stage is done, then are we moved to our next phase?

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Speaker 3: And that has its own emotion too, an anxiety.

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Speaker 1: People are calling through Juli's in Cograhella.

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Speaker 2: Julie, Hi, Brendan, Welcome to the blob zone.

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Speaker 5: I know I don't want to get into the blob zone,

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Speaker 5: but I'm worried that I might, but I just wanted

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Speaker 5: to let Amanda. Amanda to you. I love you so much.

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Speaker 5: You are so inspiring, You're such a beautiful person, and

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Speaker 5: I love listening to you. And I think I've been

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Speaker 5: listening for years, and I've listened to all the steps

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Speaker 5: in your life, your journey, right back to when you

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Speaker 5: were going through IVF. And I'm sitting here in the

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Speaker 5: car and I'm just bawling my eyes out thinking, and

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Speaker 5: I'm thinking, this is this is what my children will

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Speaker 5: go through. I mean, once in year seven and the

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Speaker 5: other ones in U father, this is what my children

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Speaker 5: are going to go through. They're going to want to

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Speaker 5: leave home. And I can already, I can already see

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Speaker 5: it in my daughter. You know, she wants her freedom,

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Speaker 5: but I'm sort of tugging her a bit so that

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Speaker 5: she doesn't go so quickly. You know, But this is life.

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Speaker 3: Like you said, it's hard, isn't It's life. And we're

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Speaker 3: lucky that we raise children who can leave us. We

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Speaker 3: want them to. But it's hard, isn't it.

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Speaker 5: It is very hard. It's hard to let go. Like

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Speaker 5: you said, you know, one minute you're buying little boo.

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Speaker 5: It is a little shoes for them. The next minute

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Speaker 5: they're feed a lot of big slippers.

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Speaker 1: Yes, showing you their latest calf tattoo that you've had

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Speaker 1: that gat that's great, thanks.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, beautiful words.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: In Penrith, Hello Allison, welcome to the blood Zone and

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Speaker 1: there's no show. It's great.

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Speaker 6: I'm still in the blood Zone and I just wanted

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Speaker 6: to say, Manda, what you said. It was really really touching.

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Speaker 6: And I don't know if I have cried since I

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Speaker 6: have the five children and the last one left last July,

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Speaker 6: and only on Wednesday night I came home from work

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Speaker 6: and he got a surprise me at some Victoria and

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Speaker 6: was sitting there and it was just so awesome. But yeah,

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Speaker 6: I listened to you all the time. I've never wrung before,

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Speaker 6: but I just had to pull over at the shops

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Speaker 6: and just say thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: Oh Alison, imagine that five children, they all leave home,

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Speaker 3: and that's the path.

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Speaker 1: That's what happens. That's what happens. But you know, when

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Speaker 1: they do move home, you get a gymnasium, you get

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Speaker 1: a spare room. You've got to think about that stuff,

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Speaker 1: you know.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, thank you everybody, Thank you.

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Speaker 5: Join the and Amanda in the morning.

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Speaker 4: One at one point seven, tell you him