Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day!

"Youth fades; love droops,
the leaves of friendship fall;
A mother's secret hope outlives them all."

Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894

Mothers Day Trivia

England, in the 1600's celebrated Mothering Sunday to honor the mothers of England.

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In 1872 by Julia Ward Howe, in protest to war, worked to bring about a Mother's Day dedicated to peace.

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Anna Jarvis began a campaign for an offical Mother's day when her own mother died. It was Ann who first used the carnation as a symbol to honor Mothers. President Woodrow Wilson made Mother's Day a national holiday in 1914.

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The flower for Mother’s Day is Carnations:
Pink is worn for a living mother and white if deceased.

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Rose Kennedy - "I looked on child-rearing not only as a work of love and duty, but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world, and one that demanded the best that I could bring it."