Celebrate your mom this month by doing something for her not just giving her a present. Yes, flowers, cards, and candy are generally always welcome but doing something she won’t expect would be nice too. This year should be the year she will remember that you love her and appreciate all that she has done over the years to help you grow up to be the person that you are. Most of the older moms just want you to visit her for a couple of hours and the younger ones would like a day without household responsibilities. Those in the middle would appreciate both at the same time. Get on your thinking caps and really surprise her this year.
Mother’s Day is celebrated in over 40 countries around the world at various times of the year. We have probably already written about this before but here in the U.S. Mother’s Day was officially created 1914.
The modern holiday of Mother’s Day was first celebrated in 1908 when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother at St Andrew’s Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia. St Andrew’s Methodist Church now holds the International Mother’s Day Shrine. Her campaign to make Mother’s Day a recognized holiday in the United States began in 1905, the year her mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis, died.
In 1908, the U.S. Congress rejected a proposal to make Mother’s Day an official holiday, joking that they would also have to proclaim a “Mother-in-law’s Day”. However, owing to the efforts of Anna Jarvis, by 1911 all U.S. states observed the holiday, with some of them officially recognizing Mother’s Day as a local holiday (the first being West Virginia, Jarvis’ home state, in 1910). In 1914, Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother’s Day, held on the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers.
So take your mom out to lunch or dinner, take her fishing or camping if she is into that but do something nice for her just because you can.
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