About Mother's Day...

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WHEN IS MOTHER'S DAY? Sunday May 13th, 2007

Mother's Day was first suggested in the United States in 1872
by the woman who wrote the words of The Battle Hymn of the Republic,
Julia Ward Howe. After seeing the devastation first-hand of the Civil War,
Julia determined that peace was one of the most
important causes of the world. After the Franco-Prussian War had begun
Julia called on all women to rise up and oppose war of any kind which
spawned the idea of a Mother's Day for Peace. Mother's Day for Peace
was derived from Anna Jarvis, who in 1858 created
Mother's Work Day that focused on better sanitation on both sides
of the Republic. And in 1868 Anna began work to reconcile Union and
Confederate neighbors. Much later, Anna's daughter (also named Anna Jarvis),
knowing her Mother's work, and the work of Julia Ward Howe,
started her own movement to create a memorial day for women.
Anna was successful in working with the church where her late mother
had taught Sunday school, together they created a Mother's Day
on the 2nd anniversary of her mothers death. The first Mother's
Day was celebrated in 1907 in West Virginia at Annas church.
By the 2nd year Philadelphia was also to celebrate Mother's Day.

Anna and her supporters began a large writing campaign to
businessman, ministers, politicians and anyone who would listen
to create a national holiday for Mothers. The campaign was successful,
by 1911 Mother's Day was celebrated in 45 states and in 1914
President Woodrow Wilson made the official announcement of a
National Holiday to be held every 2nd Sunday of May, called Mother's Day.

Mother's Day Poems:

"Happy Mother's Day" Means More

"Happy Mother's Day" means more
Than have a happy day.

Within those words lie lots of things
We never get to say.
It means I love you first of all,
Then thanks for all you do.
It means you mean a lot to me,
And that I honor you.

But most of all, I guess it means
That I am thinking of
Your happiness on this, your day,
With pleasure and with love.***

Happy Mother's Day to my dear daughter:
A mother, too, and yet my baby still!
Praised be the love that lasts, and always will,
Perched like a star above the windswept weather!
Years pass like clouds beneath the things that matter.
Mothers grasp the grace within the fill,
Older than the stars themselves, that spill
Towards eyes whose tears supply the maelstrom's waters.
How lucky we, to share it in our bones!
Each a mother, holding what will prove
Redemption's gift, too dear to be redeemed
'Ere time renew the miracle again.
So may you, some Mother's Day, your own
Daughter, now a mother, send such love,
Alive to more emotion that you dreamed,
Yet far beyond the realm of joy and pain.***

Mommy I Love You
Mommy, I love you
For all that you do.
I'll kiss you and hug you
'Cause you love me, too.
You feed me and need me
To teach you to play,
So smile 'cause I love you
On this Mother's Day