Mothers day is celebrated world wide and is one of the most sentimental holidays throughout the year. All over the world people spend a day celebrating and spoiling their mothers with gifts and presents. But how did this holiday come to be? What was the reason that mothers day had been created; by who and why?

In the year 1907, there was a woman named Anna Jarvis whose mother had been in charge of organizing women’s groups which had been used to help promote health and friendship. On May 12th of 1907, Anna Jarvis had held a memorial service for her mother at her mothers late church in Grafton, West Virginia. This memorial had inspired many to petition for this type of service to happen countrywide. In the span of 5 years, virtually every single state in the United States had been observing the day now known as mothers day, and in the year 1914 the United States President Woodrow Wilson, had made it a national holiday called Mothers Day. Anna Jarvis had signified that the colors red and or pink, usually in the flower carnations, would represent a living breathing mother and or mother figure and that a white carnation would mean a deceased mother or mother figure.

Around the world, different families celebrate in different ways. Some throw big parties and spend the whole day celebrating. Other families simply do gifts for their mother or mother figure. Sadly, around the world there are families who do not celebrate mothers day or do not have that mother or mother figure in their life. Though this is true around the world, it gives us the ability to not take for granted what we have and who we have. Mothers do so much for us and are the reason that we exist to this day. Thank you to all the mothers around the world.