One of the early calls to celebrate a Mother's Day in the United States was the "Mother's Day Proclamation" by Julia Ward Howe. Written in 1870, it was a pacifist reaction to the carnage of the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. The Proclamation was tied to Howe's feminist belief that women had a responsibility to shape their societies at the political level.
In the years after the Mother's Day Proclamation, Ann Jarvis founded five Mothers' Day Work Clubs to improve sanitary and health conditions. In 1907, two years after Ann Jarvis' death, her daughter Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother and began a campaign to make "Mother's Day" a recognized holiday in the US. Although she was successful in 1914, she was already disappointed with its commericalization by the 1920s.

Stupidest reason for a holiday ever.

Did you extend a Mothers day wish to your Mother? Send her a card or flowers?

Don't feed the troll, Midgen.


Happy Mother's Day, everybuggy!! This has been the best Mother's Day weekend for me...even though I was afraid I would be very sad. My husband is THE AWESOME! He has kept all the blues away.
And having Mookhow staying with us has made things awfully fun around our home. Yay! I hope everyone else is having as wonderful of a Mother's Day as we are.

Happy Mothers Day, Glade Ladies.