Motherhood: All love begins and ends there – Robert Browning, English poet, 1812–1889

Whether it’s Mother’s Day, Mothers Day, or Mothers’ Day (it appears to be Mother’s Day), welcome to our annual Mother’s Day post.

Some facts about Mother’s Day:

1. Mother’s Day is celebrated on various days and in many parts of the world—most commonly in the months of March or May. For example, in Egypt, Mother’s Day is celebrated on March 21, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere.
2.  In the United States, the celebration of Mother’s Day began in the early 20th century.
3. In 1908, the U.S. Congress rejected a proposal to make Mother’s Day an official holiday.
4. By the early 1920s, Hallmark Cards and other companies had started selling Mother’s Day cards.
5. By 1925, carnations had become associated with Mother’s Day, and the American War Mothers raised money by selling carnations. Wearing a colored carnation meant that a person’s mother was living. A white carnation indicated that a person’s mother was deceased.
6. In 2015, 26.4 was the average age in the United States for first-time mothers.
7. In its early days, people observed Mother’s Day by going to church and writing letters to their mothers.
8. More people purchase fresh flowers and plants for Mother’s Day than for any other holiday except Christmas and Chanukah.
9. In 2018, the National Retail Federation (NRF) estimates that U.S. consumers will spend $23.1 billion celebrating Mother’s Day.
10.  Each shopper will spend an average of $180 on Mom.
11. Most consumers will give cards (77%) and flowers (69%) to their mothers or take her out to eat (55%) in 2018, but more money will be spent on jewelry ($4.6 billion) than any other category, according to the Retail Foundation.
12. According to the Insure.com 2017 Mother’s Day Index, the various tasks moms perform at home would be worth $67,619 (up from $65,523 in 2016) a year in the professional world.

Thank you to these websites for this information:

Wikipedia

CNN Fun Facts

 

Some Mother’s Day quotes:

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process. John F. Kennedy 1917-1963

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers. Harriet Beecher Stowe, American novelist, 1811-1896

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same – and most mothers kiss and scold together. Pearl S. Buck, American novelist 1892 – 1973

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones, run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives. Camille Pagia, American academic and social critics, 1947-

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own. Aristotle, 384 BC – 322 BC

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. William Durant American historian and writer, William Durant, 1885-1981

We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death. John Donne, English poet 1572 – 1632

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. Barbara Ehrenreich, American author and political activist 1941 –

Thank you, Greatest Quotations!

Happy Mother’s Day from The Grammar Diva