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Show H Special Feature SOUTUZSNUTAHNSWS WEDNESDAY MAY7.1OT mms in establish a national Mothers day for their moms, anditdoesnt Day. Originally, it was her matter if they are biological, fosmother, Anna Reese Jarvis, who ter, or adoptive. The memory of my mother will a special day, yet many of them came up with the idea to have a have no idea how it got started. special day honoring mothers. always be a blessing to me. She Some sources say Mothers Day When she died, the daughter did was the greatest. Mom didn't was set in motion by the actions not abandon her mothers want any kind of an occupation, of Juliet Calhoun Blakeley. thought. In 1907, on the second she simply wanted to take care Take yourself back in time. anniversary of her mothers of her husband and five chilIts May 11, 1877. You are sit- death, Jarvis persuaded her dren. Yet, like it or not, Mom did ting toward the front of the local mothers quaint little church in have a career. She used her enMethodist Episcopal Church in West Virginia to celebrate ergy and talents as a problem-solveAlbion, Michigan. Your two sons, Mothers Day. The next year. caregiver, teacher, nurse, Charles and Moses are sitting Mothers Day was also cel- and was even the CEO of our household. She had no formal next to you. Although both are ebrated in Philadelphia. 191 efforts of have 1, through the By traveling salesmen, they training, had very few days off crusade. and received no overtime pay. arranged their time to be with Jarvis' Oh, what memories I have of you on your birthday. All of a Mothers Day was celebrated in sudden the pastor leaves the almost every state. In 1914, the good old day. "Did you take pulpit, but the service is not over. President Woodrow Wilson pro- your bath?" Did you use soap?" (The pastor was disturbed over claimed Mothers Day a national Once Mom asked me why my feet the shenanigans his son had holiday to be celebrated on the were still dirty and I told her it wasnt dirt. Tm suntan, I lied. pulled two days earlier). What second Sunday of May. honorof would you do? Mrs. Blakeley My parents had a large gar Actually the custom walked bravely up to the front of ing mothers dates back to the the church and took over the Greek empire. The ancient remainder of the service. She Greeks dedicated their spring called on the other mothers to festival to Rhea, the mother of help her. Charles and Moses, gods and goddesses. Later on moved by their mothers ges- the early Christians celebrated ture, vowed to return eveiy year a day called "Mothering Sunon their mothers birthday to day1 on the fourth Sunday in honor her. Because of the broth- Lent. The ritual was in honor of ers' urging, their mothers the Virgin Mary. In England, church set aside the second Sun- Mothering Sunday was exday in May to honor all mothers, panded to include all mothers. Mothers are honored with senand especially Juliet Blakeley. Thirty-seve- n years after that timental cards, pictures first observance in Albion, Con- scribbled on paper with crayon, flowers, potted plants, candy, gress signed a resolution By Barbara Pyle Millions of people in more than 46 countries honor mothers with r, one-wom- an Mother s Day den and lots of fruit trees, and Mom believed in canning the harvest. One measure of being a good daughter, back then, was helping mom can. At first it didn't occur to her that one of her daughters just didnt have the knack. Mom stopped asking me to help when I tossed the peaches instead of the peelings to the chickens. In fact. Mom stopped asking me to help cook the day I left the sugar out of the cake. So freed from the drudgery of canning and cooking, I wrote stories. Mom understood and encouraged me. I always suspected that she prayed her second daughter would marry a man who could cook. Like other families we celebrated Mothers Day by giving Mom the day off. While Mom slept late, we kids made break fast. We also picked tulips and daffodils from her flower garden and carefully arranged them in ajar. My older sister carried the breakfast tray, while I carried the flowers. Cards and small homemade gifts were toted by the others. Mom was at a loss for words until she saw the mess in the kitchen. We lost our mom to a stroke. She was so young, only 42. Even though I knew that my mom went from wearing a flour sack apron to wearing wrings, it took a very long time before I could think ofher and not cry. She was especially missed on my wedding day and when my sons were born. I loved my Mom, but I didn't tell her as often asl should. I expected her to just know." She was very important in my life. I love you Mom. 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