Happy Mother's Day to everyone who is a Mummy. ❤️❤️❤️
🤰For those who didn't know, Mother's Day, or Mothering Sunday, now extends not just to mothers. It is now a day to honor mothers and other mother figures, such as grandmothers, stepmothers and mothers-in-law.
In the UK, Mother's Day celebrations take place on the fourth Sunday in the month of Lent. ... Mother's Day came to be celebrated in the UK in 17th century as Mothering Sunday, much before the custom began in US. ❤️🤰
👉 Check out these fun facts! 👉
✅ Mother's Day origins - where did it come from?
Mother's Day origins date back to the Ancient Greeks. In their spring festival, they celebrated the goddess Rhea, considered the Mother of the Gods. Rhea was closely associated with another mother goddess, Cybele, whom the Romans honoured.
✅ In Christianity, Mothering Sunday has been featured in the calendar since at least the 16th century. Originally it wasn’t a celebration of motherhood, but a time during Lent when people returned to their mother church – the main church – for a special service. This is why Mother's Day falls annually on the fourth Sunday of Lent.
The tradition of gifting came from families reuniting at this Mothering Sunday service too. Children would pick flowers on their way to church and gift bouquets to their mothers - hence why an online flower delivery is still considered the go-to gift for Mother's Day today.
✅ In Medieval times, apprentices and servants would be given Mothering Sunday off to return home to their mothers too. They would take a special Mother's Day cake known as a Simnel cake. This was a rich fruit mixture with layers of almond paste in the middle and on top, and decorated with 11 marzipan balls to represent the apostles of Jesus – minus Judas Iscariot.
✅ Mother's Day celebrations declined in popularity in the 1900s but was rejuvenated by the efforts of an American woman named Anna Jarvis in the 20th Century. Jarvis’s lobbying of President Woodrow Wilson resulted in Mother's Day becoming an official American holiday in 1914.
And a 2012 study into Mother's Day celebrations reveals it now takes place in over 152 countries worldwide.
✅ When did Mother's Day start in England?
Since the 1950s, Mothering Sunday has been a permanent fixture in the UK calendar. Moved by Ms' Jarvis efforts, an English woman named Constance Penswick Smith worked to establish the UK’s Mothering Sunday Movement.
Passionate about it's revival, Constance founded the Society for the Observance of Mothering Sunday. And she additionally wrote a book titled The Revival of Mothering Sunday published February 19, 1921.
However, Mother's Day in the UK is celebrated on a different day to the US, where it takes place on the second Sunday in May every year. This is because it was the date that Anna Jarvis held a small memorial service for her own mother in 1907.
It took a while for Constance's efforts to pay off and eventually campaigning was aided by the Second World War, where soldiers paid thanks to their mothers from afar.
✅ When did Mother's Day start in the US?
In 1907, the idea started when a woman called Anna Jarvis held a small memorial service for her own mother on 12 May 1907. Soon after, most places in America were observing the day and in 1914, the US president made it a national holiday, celebrated on the second Sunday of May.
Unlike England, the US Mother's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of May each year. Lots of other countries celebrate Mother's Day at different times of the year as well.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ More Mother's Day facts!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
🤰 In the UK the largest annual number of telephone calls take place on Mother’s Day.
🤰 In the US approx 122 million calls are made on the second Sunday of May every year.
🤰 In the US Mother's Day is the third highest selling holiday for flowers and plants.
🤰 In Thailand, Mother's Day is celebrated on August 12 - the date of their Queen's birthday.
🤰 Every year people send around 30 million cards on Mother’s Day in the UK.
🤰 Mother’s Day is the biggest flower buying day of the year in Britain.
🤰 Red or pink carnations are the flowers associated with Mother's Day.
🤰 In 2021, the top 3 most popular gifts were greeting cards, flowers, and special outings.
🤰 It's estimated that there are 2.2 billion mothers in the world.
🤰 In the US the woman who founded Mother' Day Anna Jarvis, went on to protest it saying how overly commercialized it had become.
LOL, I think I am spent now - Happy Mother's Day!!