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Mother's Day
By: Aleko Date: May 16, 2020, 4:39 am
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Just to cheer everyone up in these difficult times, the BBC news
website is carrying an item about the life of Anna Jarvis, the
woman who invented US Mother's Day, telling how after years of
campaigning to get her idea adopted, within a decade she was so
aghast at the commercialised Frankenstein monster she had
created that she spent the rest of her life, and all her
family's money, trying to get it abolished again.
HTML https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-52589173
This may be pure Schadenfreude on the part of the Beeb, because
we don't have Mother's Day here in the UK - we've always had
Mothering Sunday on the fourth Sunday in Lent. Of course
Hallmark and their ilk have done their best to turn it into a
commercial marketing opportunity, but the traditional custom is
very nice - you visit your mother and bring her a bunch of
daffodils or other spring flowers, and a simnel cake if you can
manage it and your family like it.
HTML https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simnel_cake
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Re: Mother's Day
By: Buffalogal Date: May 16, 2020, 11:10 am
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That is true and in fact, the idea behind Mother's Day was to
harness the political power of mother's to campaign against war
(all war in general but World War I in particular). It wasn't
about honoring mothers it was about having mothers use their
voices to speak up to create a better world for their children.
I have often said that if we really wanted to celebrate Mother's
Day our gift to our mother's should be political protest signs.
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Re: Mother's Day
By: jpcher Date: May 17, 2020, 2:45 am
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I haven't read Aleko's history links. I'll come back to read
them later because of:
[quote author=Buffalogal link=topic=1715.msg51777#msg51777
date=1589645426]
That is true and in fact, the idea behind Mother's Day was to
harness the political power of mother's to campaign against war
(all war in general but World War I in particular). It wasn't
about honoring mothers it was about having mothers use their
voices to speak up to create a better world for their children.
I have often said that if we really wanted to celebrate Mother's
Day our gift to our mother's should be political protest signs.
[/quote]
Really curious about this!
Mother's day has always been a cherished day for me even though
one or the other of my DDs BDs fall on the same day. I
celebrate, within my own heart, the fact that I am a mother. And
the DDs bday was more important to me.
I remember the gifts my DDs used to give me when they were
young, sometimes made at school, sometimes store bought little
things that they saved their money for. I still have many things
from them that were gifted to me on Mothers Day and love them
all.
This year DD#1 told me to expect a package for Mother's Day. I
told her "You really don't need to give me gifts on MD any more,
I know that you love me."
She sent me an Alaska scented candle (our Alaskan cruise was
cancelled due to corona) along with a heartfelt note about how
much she loved me. The candle is lit . . . I did not know that's
what Alaska smelled like! So refreshing and calmint!
Yes, I do not need a Mothers Day gift or celebration because my
DDs tell/show me all the time how much they love me, but it's
still a nice and lovely gesture from them.
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Re: Mother's Day
By: jazzgirl205 Date: June 23, 2020, 10:37 am
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A bit late here. Holidays are as commercial as the individual
wants to make it. No entity is forcing us to do anything.
Mother's Day for me means a nice breakfast made at home by
someone else, a flower bouquet, Mass, and a nice lunch either at
a restaurant or a homemade picnic. Simple and loving. My first
MD, my dh gave me a teaspoon in my silver pattern with "Mama"
and the year engraved on it.
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Re: Mother's Day
By: TootsNYC Date: June 24, 2020, 1:00 pm
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when my kids were little, I wanted Mother's Day to be a day I
spent WITH my kids. I was always fighting against my DH and MIL
who kept trying to "take them off my hands" (that day, and even
other days, like weekend, etc.).
As someone who worked in an office, sometimes with late hours, I
felt my time with my kids was precious.
I used to try to tell my family, and my kids: I want only the
GOOD parts of being a mother. No chores, no nagging, no
misbehavior. Just stuff that's fun to do. Fun for them, fun for
me. And that gives us lots of time and opportunity for
interaction.
I HATE with the fury of a thousand suns the idea of going to a
restaurant on Mother's Day.
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