Mother's Day - Information (May 2013)

Do you know that what we were celebrating today, the Mother's Day, was a result of a woman who fought for it to be a state's proclamation which later became national before becoming a worldwide celabration?






A West Virginian woman named Anna Marie Jarvis was so passionate to honor her own mother that she quit her job and incorporated herself as the Mother's Day International Association.

A wierd thing about it is that she immediately called it as an international organization even if it was not recognized by any single city yet. Also, it was a one-team organization.

After six years of perssuasion to the governors of nearly all states in the unio, On 1907, Jarvis had succeeded to make the second Sunday of May as the Mother's Day that would later adopted by all states and the world.

Here are some additional facts of Mother's Day.

1.) Though this is for all mothers worldwide, it should be written as Mother's Day and not Mothers' Day - meaning that this is to honor your own mother. This doesn't however neglect mothers who do not have children anymore. It only encourage to focus on your own mother.

2.) The founder of Mother's Day criticized buying gift for the mothers and she encourage that all Mother's Day gifts should be personally made by the giver.

3.) Anna Marie Jarvis never had a children, making her not to experience the holiday she fought founded. Especulations said that she was too busy to run her organization that she had no time for it.