Mother's Day

Every Spring we venture to celebrate our annual day to honor mom. This tradition has been dated back to the Roman eras, in one form or another. However, the American establishment of Mother's Day was created in the 1900's. Woodrow Wilson signed a measure to make Mother's Day a national holiday in 1914.

This traditional day of celebration of all the things our mother's strive so hard to provide their children quickly became commercialized. Businesses such as floral and candy confectioners saw a big boom even before the day was ratified as a holiday. A simple idea of thanks for the unsung role of mothering was tainted by profit.

The commercialization of the holiday eventually had the creator, Ana Jarvis, the advocate of the holiday renouncing it entirely before she died in 1948. Jarvis even lobbied for it to be removed for the American calendar. I know how she felt.

Commercialization of everything is the American agenda. You see it all the time, even if you are not aware of it. Christmas decorations go up each year before Thanksgiving dinner is served and right after a feast to celebrate our thankfulness, millions of Americans clobber each other to buy more stuff to take home during the Black Friday sales.

Holidays break up the dreary daily struggle. They add richness and can foster better relations with family and friends. Cheer up moms, your kids will be burning and torturing food to serve you breakfast in bed very soon. Cherish the macaroni art and the lanyard bracelets. You deserve them and much more. Your stretch marks, imperfect abs, along with the whole host of sacrifices of sleep, money, time, and headache make you the beautiful mom that you are everyday.

Happy Mother's Day Beautiful Ladies. The whole world owes you a debt that can never be repaid.

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