Mother's Day... 

Mother's Day is meant to give due honor to the woman who gave us birth and life.  Though we often feel gratitude towards our mothers we may not demonstrate it often enough.  Mother's Day is celebrated to share those feelings with our mothers, to spend some time with them and make them feel special.

Great women like Julia Ward Howe and Anna Jarvis will always be revered for their contributions in bestowing dignity to women and motherhood and they are largely responsible for the creation of Mother's Day.

Mother's Day is celebrated in May in dozens of countries worldwide, but ranges from February in Norway, to March in the Middle East, to November in Russia.

Mother's Day is also a huge commercial success.  Mother's Day is now the most popular day of the year to dine out in the United States.  Americans will spend billions on flowers, pampering gifts and greeting cards, not to mention about 7.8% of the U.S. jewelry industry's annual revenue in 2008, with custom gifts like mother's rings.

My mother is a poem

I'll never be able to write,

though everything I write

is a poem to my mother.

-- Sharon Doubiago

To all of our mothers, thank you.