Christine Huff

As I sit here the day before Ma's birthday, eating one of her favourites -a large soft roll, filled with crisps and a mug of tea a flood of memories about Ma fly back.
One such came to me yesterday as Josh lost his first tooth.... When we were kids and had a loose tooth, I for one used to complain like a limb was hanging off, Ma always had a way of dealing with it. She would call you over, hands behind her back, ask to take a look at the tooth, get in real close and quick as a rattlesnake she would poke the thing as hard as she could. Didn’t always work but affective. Needless to say I didn’t learn and she didn’t stop doing it any time I had a loose tooth.
Also when the tooth did come out she used to find great ways of leaving the money - feathers in the glass of water, money wrapped in clingfilm - each better than the last
Guess I’m just lucky Josh is allot braver and doesn’t moan, no need for me to poke the tooth out!! Rest in Peace Ma

Ma never liked flying, something about being locked up in a plan miles up and nowhere to go if her feet started to hurt.
So it was her first time in years to be on a plan, flying to Germany no doubt, and she was very nervous.
In order to calm her nerves Dave and myself had to act out the whole process. Ma sat in bed one morning, we sat beside her, locked in her seat-belt, done the announcement from the captain and started the take off, Dave shook the bed !! and then repeated the whole process for landing.
It worked well, Ma wasn't nervous but come the next time she was going to fly away Dave and myself had to hide away, dreading having to do the whole act all over again

listened to this song today it made me think of you.. love ger x x

We where just talking work the other day about words that kids say when it brought back memory of Ma.
She used to mind three kids from up the road, that long ago I cant even remember their names but as we all know Ma used to curse something terrible to the point that she didnt even realise she was cursing.
But when the youngest of the three kids started trying to say his first words we where all shocked to hear FFFFFFFFFUUUU.....
Straight away Ma started saying FISH for everything and soon enough the poor child's first words where Fish.... and not the F word

Ma used to love Christmas Day, I always remember Christmas day, getting up early, having a selection box for breakfast, Mass, everyone around for dinner and trying to eat really quickly so Dave and me could go inside to play.
Christmas morning Dave and Me used to get up really early, hassle Ma and Da to get up at all hours, when we did get up we would love our toys play and Ma would have a cup of tea and a bar of Aero on the sofa with a blanket and go back asleep. What we didnt realise then was that Ma used to work Christmas Eve, getting in at all hours and was usually up until 03:00 doing the toys, only for us to be up at 04:00, 05:00 and finally 06:00 so she was knackered by the time she let us up

I am writing this for conor to let you all know how much you ment to him, just yesterday we were talking about you and watching the xfactor and Conor reminded us of the time you had him out for the day and brought him back singing dirty songs like 1,2,3,4 hang your knickers on the door anyone that knows Chris knows the rest of the song, by the way Conor was only three at the time and that was one of the nice songs she thought him. Around the same time she brought him to McDonalds and told him they were going to rob the straws and salt on the way out, Conor being a kid thought this was great fun and that his aunty was real bold this was great. Even now he still loves to take straws and salt not as much fun now that he knows there free. I am so proud that Conor got to share in your life and have you as an aunty. miss you sis, Love Dee

Between sisters, a special love and friendship exists, and being sisters with you is something I'll always cherish... You've been a constant source of joy, a constant inspiration, a help in times of trouble and a friend in times of need... Having you as a sister means a lot to me and although I may not have told you often enough your very special to me and I truly believe that the best thing about being sisters is no matter what changes life may bring sisters have a special bond between them and always will. its a bond theat holds us together and draws us closer as each day goes by, your always on my mind and forever in my heart.
Love
Hellie xxxxx
( Helen, Laurence, Darren, Michael and James ) may the kisses we send you, reach you on angels wings

Only wish I could remember what we were talking about in this picture and how i wish we could talk some more. Cant believe your not here anymore, there was still so much to be said only wish i had the chance. missing you and think of you everyday. lots of love ger

I talk about you today, as I told the kids the story of Rover. When we were kids, Chris’s favorite night story was Rover. Rover was a little dog and it’s was owned by a little girl. The little girl loved the dog. She played and looked after it.
Rover ran on to the road and was killed by car. Of course that was not the good part of the story, every night Rover came back to haunt the poor kid. Chris lying on her pillow would slowly rise up with the sheet over her head and frighten the life out of the rest of us. The screams could be heard from miles.
Think of you all the time Jacquie

Ma's first time drunk (that I'm aware off...) was all down to her sister Dee. One day, I dont know what the occasion was Dee and my Ma decided to have a few drinks, this was Ma's first time to drink... that I know off, suffice to say after one or two drinks Ma was locked, she was running around singing and shouting before eventually falling asleep under the kitchen table hugging one of David's teddy bears, crying cause the room woundnt stop spinning. All of this happened after she had come up with the song that from then on in was the give away that she was drunk........ it went. Ding a ling a ling, ding a ling a ling, here comes the ice cream man, your ding a ling a ling, my ding a ling a line, here comes the ice cream man....

So many memories but this one brings a smile but is so Chris. I started work at fifteen in a sewing factory.Chris was already working there.One day Chris and a girl called linda had a bit of a tiff. Linda couldn,t get the better of chris.so she made a big mistake and said she was going to kill her sister. Chris jumped up out of her chair and squared up to her told if she even looked at her sister she would be sorry.The bully never crossed chris again and became one of my best friends.I never knew what it was like to go to school with any of my sisters with the age gap.But it was great working with chris for afew years i always knew i was safe my big sis would look after me.funny thing is all the time we worked there chris never got any older every birthday she was always 29 ha ha xxx

One on my fondest memories of my auntie Chris was when I was about ten and was in nanny Doyle's and I noticed Chris had a lovely gold snake ring on, I made a comment on how nice I taught it was and without hesitation Chris took it off her finger and gave it to me, of course I tried to say I couldn't accept it but Chris being the way she was, giving and kind, insisted I take it. It's a lovely memory that I will always treasure.

I remember I was only 12 and decided to entry a contest with the neighbour two doors up at the Finglas Hall. Chris was only 16 and working at Collins and she bought me a pink dress with white flowers for me to wear on the day. Chris’s words to me was beat that Audrey McCormack. Audrey had upset Ger a few days before. Much to my humiliation, I fall on stage and Chris and everyone else I am sure had a good laugh. As always I am proud of my big sis.

my mam used to give me 5 pence for irish dancing i never done irish dancing i used to spend the money on 2 packet of perri crisps and a lolly chris spotted me in the school yard with the perri crisps and that day chris found out i didn't do irish dancing so chris then made me give her one packet of crisps and the lolly and i was only left with one packet of crisps meanwhile the price of crisps went up and i could only get one perri crisps and two lollys so i was then only left with one lolly then i decided to tell my mam the truth that i never done the dancing and was only then that my mam and chris told me they both knew i had never done irish dancing but they enjoyed watching me show them what i had supposedly learned

I remember as a kid I really wanted to go see a Viking exhibition in the Dublin museum. I pestered my Ma to bring me thinking the exhibit would be full of swords and things that would interest my age group at the time. After my Ma went out of her way to bring me I didn’t even look around for five minutes and I was bored and wanted to go home. Around the same time, I wanted to try an espresso and I promised Ma I would drink it if she bought me one. As you would expect one tiny taste and I had decided I didn’t like it. On neither occasion did Ma get mad at the expense or waste of time I had caused. She would do anything for her lads. She was such a kind, warm and generous women you would not believe it unless you met her.

One day when I was walking home from work, Ma was cycling the opposite direction on the other side of the road. I saw her, waved and Ma decided to give the two finger sign but at that exact moment she hit a pothole, the bike jumped up and the handlebar hit her in the hand breaking two of her fingers.
The next six weeks she told everybody that I had broken her fingers.....