Mother’s Day is a holiday set aside to honor our mothers. Most all of us owe our mothers so much for all the hard work, love, and patience they showed while raising us. There is nothing quite like the love of a mother. Traditional Gifts Although it’s great to be original and get your mother something special and different, there are always the traditional gifts. Each year the most popular Mother’s Day gifts in the United States include flowers, pampering gifts like pedicures, greeting cards, jewelry, and, of course, taking your mother out to eat on Sunday. The important thing is to remember your mother.

Mother’s Day is a day set aside to express love, respect and thanks to mothers. The day is observed by giving gifts, visiting, or taking mothers out for dinner and celebrations. Many other countries of the world celebrate their own Mother’s Day at different times throughout the year. Mother’s Day is a holiday that honors mothers. It is celebrated on the second Sunday in May in many countries throughout the world. Festivals honoring mothers and mother goddesses can be traced back to ancient times. Mother’s Day is a special day when we can celebrate the special people in our lives. They can be your mother, sister, cousin, grandma, aunt, a family friend or even a teacher.

Different countries celebrate Mother’s Day at different times, for example, the United Kingdom celebrates it on the fourth Sunday of Lent, Norway on the second Sunday of February, and Egypt the first day of Spring. The Philippines and Japan celebrate Mother’s Day on the second Sunday of May.

Various forms of Mother’s Day have been celebrated by different societies throughout the history of the world. The official holiday in the United States, however, began with a lady named Ann Jarvis in 1868. Ann tried to establish a Mother’s Friendship Day after the Civil War. She wasn’t successful during her lifetime, however her daughter Anna Marie Jarvis began to work on a Mother’s Day holiday after Ann died.

In 1910 Anna Marie got the state of West Virginia to declare Mother’s Day an official holiday. The rest of the nation soon followed and in 1914 it was declared a national holiday by President Woodrow Wilson. Since then Mother’s Day has become one of the most popular holidays of the year.

How do you celebrate Mother’s Day? Do you make breakfast in bed for your mum, or give her a card or gifts? Although these are common things to do in Australia today, mothers have been celebrated in many different ways for a very long time. In ancient times, thousands of years ago, many cultures would celebrate a mother goddess whom they thought of as the mother of everyone.

In ancient Egypt, Isis was worshipped as a mother goddess and in Greece they worshipped a goddess named Rhea. Festivals to celebrate mother goddesses were usually held in Spring because it represents new life and fertility. An example of one such celebration was the Roman festival of Hilaria that honoured the mother goddess Cybele. In many places around the world, Mother’s Day is still celebrated in Spring, but in Australia we celebrate it in Autumn.

The Mother’s Day holiday in the United States was started by Anna Jarvis. She wanted to honor her mother, whose dream it was to have a day that celebrated mothers. On May 10, 1908, the first official observance of Mother’s Day was held at Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton, West Virginia. (The church is now known as the International Mother’s Day Shrine.) Within five years, almost every state was observing the day. In 1914 President Woodrow Wilson made it a national holiday.