Mother's Day In America Turns 100

Here is to wishing all the Mother's out there a Very Happy Mother's Day, and to their children~~Please celebrate your Mother while she is alive, as regret for not showing the proper respect is hard to deal with.. I know this from personal experience, as I had a rocky relationship with my Mother, which was gradually improving when she died, and there was still so much more that I would have liked to say to mend the relationship!!

This story was on Yahoo News yesterday, and thought it might be a good way to begin this Mother's Day:

On this 100th anniversary of Mother's Day, the woman credited with creating one of the world's most celebrated holidays probably wouldn't be pleased with all the flowers, candy or gifts.

Anna Jarvis would want us to give mothers a white carnation — she felt it signified the purity of a mother's love.

Jarvis, who never married and never had children, got the Mother's Day idea after her mother said it would be nice if someone created a memorial to mothers.

Three years after her mother died in 1905, she organized the first official mother's day service at a church where her mother had spent more than 20 years teaching Sunday school.

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