Thank you Mom!

The Images of Mother(I have shared this before, worth sharing again ^_^):
4 YEARS OF AGE ~ My Mommy can do anything!
8 YEARS OF AGE ~ My Mom knows a lot! A whole lot!
12 YEARS OF AGE ~ My Mother doesn't really know quite everything.
14 YEARS OF AGE ~ Naturally, Mother doesn't know that, either.
16 YEARS OF AGE ~ Mother? She's hopelessly old-fashioned.
18 YEARS OF AGE ~ That old woman? She's way out of date!
25 YEARS OF AGE ~ Well, she might know a little bit about it.
35 YEARS OF AGE ~ Before we decide, let's get Mom's opinion.
45 YEARS OF AGE ~ Wonder what Mom would have thought about it?
65 YEARS OF AGE ~ Wish I could talk it over with Mom

How true is that??

Don't know how to celebrate Mother's day? Well, one of the best way to celebrate Mother's Day is to give your mom the day off. Yes, she deserves it. Let her take it easy and relax while the rest of the family does the work. Many families begin Mother's Day with mom's favorite breakfast in bed. Usually Dad and the Kids will let mom sleep late as they go into the kitchen and prepare her favorite meal. A Mother's Day breakfast can consist of anything your mom likes.

After the food is cooked, arrange everything nicely on a tray. Don't forget the vase with a single flower. Carnation perhaps? Or the children can pick a tulip or daffodil from the garden outside. When everything is ready, carefully carry the tray and mom's favorite sections from the newspaper up to her bedroom. Cards and small presents from the children can be placed on the tray before it is presented to mom in bed.

Many Families make a special Mother's Day dinner or take mom out to her favorite restaurant for a meal. It is a good day to let your mom relax and let her see what a wonderful family she has.

Poem: M.O.T.H.E.R.
"M" is for the million things she gave me,
[SIZE=+2]"O"[/SIZE] means only that she's growing old,
[SIZE=+2]"T"[/SIZE] is for the tears she shed to save me,
[SIZE=+2]"H"[/SIZE] is for her heart of purest gold;
[SIZE=+2]"E"[/SIZE] is for her eyes, with love-light shining,
[SIZE=+2]"R"[/SIZE] means right, and right she'll always be,
Put them all together, they spell
"MOTHER,"

A word that means the world to me.
Howard Johnson (c. 1915)

 

In honor of Mother's Day on Sunday, I thought it would be
interesting to explore the origin of the holiday.

While you may think that Mother's Day might be one of the oldest
holidays that we celebrate, you might be surprised to learn that
Mother's Day is less than a century old.

The modern Mother's Day celebration was actually started by a
schoolteacher from West Virginia named Anna Jarvis. Miss Jarvis
was very close to her Mother and by all accounts was an exemplary
daughter. However, when Anna's mother passed away on May 9, 1905
she felt an over-whelming sense of guilt about all the things she
felt like she should have done for her mother but never did.

The over-whelming sense of guilt was the driving force behind Miss
Jarvis' idea to honor her Mother. So, on May 10, 1908, three years
after her Mother's death, the first unofficial Mother's Day
celebration was held at the church where Anna's Mother had taught.

Spurred by the positive response to the celebration Miss Jarvis
started what some say is one of the most successful letter writing
campaigns in history. She wrote authors, ministers, politicians and
business leaders, anyone that could aid in getting her message out.

Soon after her letter writing campaign was in full swing the House of
Representatives passed a Mother's Day resolution. However, it took
several more years of campaigning before the resolution finally made
it through the Senate in 1914. On May 8, 1914 Miss Jarvis' campaign
finally came to a conclusion as President Woodrow Wilson signed the
Mother's Day proclamation which set aside the second Sunday of May as
the official holiday.

While Mother's Day in the United States was certainly not the first
holiday dedicated to honoring mothers (Great Britain's Mothering Day
was actually the first nationwide holiday), it was the catalyst that
caused most countries around the world to adopt their own Mother's
Day celebrations.

 

Smiles of happy sunshine,
Arms of everlasting luv,
Touch of sweet roses,
There is magic in the air
Whenever ur there,
Mother, everything to U I owe,
May all pleasures of life come ur way.
"Happy Mother's day"