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Mother’s Day origins

Built by Robin Dary on Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

We all celebrate Mother’s Day but does anyone know the origin? For the longest time I thought it was a holiday created by Hallmark cards. That is not correct.



We all celebrate Mother’s Day but does anyone know the origin? For the longest time I thought it was a holiday created by Hallmark cards. That is not correct.

It was started by Anna Jarvis. She was a woman living in West Virginia and started this to honor her mother after her death. She started quite a campaign to promote this a true holiday and celebration of Mothers.

In fact she and her sister spent their entire inheritance on the campaign and died penniless. What a tribute! I can only imagine what kind of wonderful mother they must have had.

Here are 2 sites for more information, http://mothers-day.123holiday.net/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother’s_Day.

So be kind and honor your Mother this Mother’s Day week-end.

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