The history of mothers Day  

That is interesting, thanks for sharing that with us. I must admit I always thought Mother's Day went back in history (Druids) and was a pagan festival to celebrate motherhood as well as rebirth etc., I hadn't realised that it had been 'reinvented' in the 17th Century and that originally it started in Greece. It's a shame though that these wonderful celebratory days aren't on the same day throughout the world. When I was living in Spain Mother's Day was a different date to the UK one and now I see that the USA one is different again. Perhpas they could standardise the date and then we would know when it was!

Again, thanks for the information, very interesting and I've rated you :)

Thank you for these very interesting facts..I did not know.
It certainly is a big boom for business alright and I know the flower shops need a lot of help during this holiday.
I am happy to say I am a Mother to one grown son who is 26.
He always sends me a card at least.
He is the light in my life.

I have never realized the history behimd mothers day. I have alway thought of it as a day to think mother's for being there for us. Of course I always do something nice for my mother on mothers day.

Well wasn't that an interesting bit of trivia. Thank you very much for that.

thank you for sharing this with us because i never knew how mothers day started and now I do. also I don't know how many countries celebrate in may because i know that in lebanon they celebrate on the 21st of march the first day of spring. I think that mothers day is a very important holliday because mothers trully deserve to be remembered.

Great information here. I love celebrating Mother's and Father's day.. both my parents are gone, but I have an adopted mom I celebrate with.

thanks for sharing it
i will now look towards mothers day seriously

thanks for sharing the information.I haven't know what the roots is before.
now I'll do as much as I can to celebrate on mother's day.

Thanks for sharing this info, very interesting. Here in Minnesota, they are trying to change the law for fishing opener. A while back they decided to have it on the same weekend as Mothers day. Needless to say, here in MN there have been some unhappy mothers. Instead of paying to their mothers many son's and I suppose some daughters as well are running off too fishing opener and neglecting Moms day. So I for one hope the law passes and they move fishing opener to another day. Again thanks for the info, nice to know how some of these Holidays and traditions start. My mom has passed, I miss spending specail time with mom, on Mothers day.

thank you for the sharing a great information which i was searching a solution. if you mind can you post discussions on other day too.