One of the things that most impressed me about my Mum was her strength of character. Mum faced a lot of adversity in her life but always maintained a strong family unit for my siblings and I. It was after my Mum finally separated from my Dad that her true character was allowed to shine. [...]
Archive for the ‘Mum’ Category
Warrior Mum
April 28, 2009
Daily Tripper
April 27, 2009
You could be walking with Mum down a freshly swept path, not a bump to be seen when suddenly she would stumble over an unseen grove, followed by a rapid recovery and immediate dismissal of any falling event occurance. Mum was a daily tripper if ever there was one. Now, she would vehemently deny this saying [...]
Not a bad old stick
April 25, 2009
One of my Mum’s favourite sayings when someone did something nice was ‘he’s not a bad old stick afterall’. It always made me smile. I’ve now adopted it as my own!
Jet-set Mum
March 30, 2009
As all of us grew up we all lived abroad for a while. One of my brothers spent 10 years in the States. Mum used to take visits out to see him on a regular basis. My brother was like all of us, a chocolate fanatic (Mum did her best to encourage this in all her children.) On [...]
Galway Advertiser
March 20, 2009
Thanks to Mary O’Connor from the Galway Advertiser for featuring an article on ‘Mum Lives On’ in the paper this week. The article is here if anyone missed it : http://advertiser.ie/galway/article/9847
