1. This past Sunday Oakland A's pitcher Dallas Braden pitched a perfect game no-hitter. What made it even more perfect was the fact that it was on Mothers Day with his grandmother watching in the stands. Dallas's mom passed away from cancer in 2001 so his grandmother had the responsibility of raising him. Grandma Peggy turned his life around straying him away from his party going ways and raised him into something special both on and off the baseball diamond. Hooray for grandma's!
2. The last few years I've noticed around the office that the ducks and geese always hatch new babies just 2 or 3 days before Mothers Day every year. Of course my curiosity has gotten the best of me lately so I began looking into how Mothers Day came about. And why do these feathered friends have their babes near this honor tradition holiday? Was it God's intention to alter natures course to coincide with Mothers Day or is this just a coincidence?
Mothers Day is celebrated on various days(April or May) in many parts of the world.
The holiday was created by Anna Jarvis in 1908 to honor one's mother. President Woodrow Wilson made it an official national holiday in 1914. Much to the dismay of Anna Jarvis, by 1948 the holiday became so commercialized that it infuriated Anna. Her intentions for Mothers Day were for it be a more personal touch, such as writing mom a letter instead of giving her a greeting card.
Anna Jarvis was arrested in 1948 for disturbing the peace while protesting the commercialization of the holiday she had created. And she even commented that she wished she never would have started the holiday because it became so out of control.
Anna died later on that same year.
Today Mothers Day is considered the busiest day of the year for restaurants. And the money spent on flowers for mom totaled nearly $2.6 billion dollars and another $68 million on greeting cards.
Maybe next year I'll just give my mom a hug and say I love you. Naa...she'd definitely wonder "What the heck is up?"
Very interesting about Anna Jarvis. Who'd-a-thunk? My kids hid a bunch of heart-shaped sticky notes for their mom. Every time she opened a drawer or cabinet she'd find another sweet message from her kids.
ReplyDeletei think Anna would be even more infuriated with todays commercialization of mothers day..i think what she wanted was some creative ways of honoring mom.. i like what your kids did..i'll have to try something like that next year!
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