Wow! What a busy month! We just enjoyed the 12th annual Region 2 People First Conference this last weekend, and now Mother's Day is this coming weekend! So why do we celebrate Mother's Day? How did it all begin?
Mothers have been celebrated as early as the ancient Greeks, and every culture has its own way of honoring motherhood. However, the holiday itself marks its beginning in the United States in 1870 when Julia Ward Howe gave her first Mother's Day Proclamation as a call for women to come together in support of limiting armed forces. Others also tried to establish a Mother's Day in t
he 1880s and 1890s, but did not succeed until the beginning of the 1900s. Anna Jarvis from Grafton, West Virginia set aside a day to honor one's mother in 1908 because she wanted to accomplish her mother's dream of making a day to celebrate all mother's. Then a wealthy Philadelphia merchant, John Wanamaker, came along and helped to promote Anna's dream until President Woodrow Wilson made it an official national holiday in 1914. How you celebrate your mother on Mother's Day? My mother's sister will be visiting for two weeks, so I will be celebrating two mothers this Mother's Day.
