Mothers Day 2008
Mothers Day has been around for a while now and nobody seems to question how it started and why. They just do “the usual,” with the flowers, card, and special dinner or what have you. It’s pretty meaningful stuff and especially in America, everyone eats it up. The point in bringing up this subject is to find out and inform everyone of how this interesting trend started in the first place. What better place to find it than Wikipedia.com? Here’s an excerpt of information you might not know about Mother’s Day:
One school of thought claims this day emerged from a custom of mother worship in ancient Greece, which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of Greek gods. This festival was held around the Vernal Equinox around Asia Minor and eventually in Rome itself from the Ides of March (15 March) to 18 March.
The ancient Romans also had another holiday, Matronalia, that was dedicated to Juno, though mothers were usually given gifts on this day.
In some countries Mother’s Day began not as a celebration for individual mothers but rather for Christians.
(And another interesting piece) Mother’s Day is now the most popular day of the year to dine out at a restaurant in the United States.
I’m sure you were one of those people complaining about the long wait and the bad service! Apparently everyone and their mother are waiting in line to get eats on Mother’s Day. On a personal note, it sounds like I was lucky to be at home hanging out with my Mom having a toasted peanut butter and banana sandwich! Happy Mother’s Day Mom!
Anyway, you all know the drill, give your mom a big thanks and let her know she’s appreciated for all the great things shes done and continues to do for some of us. Hopefully yours was enjoyable. Until next year,
