10 Facts about Mother’s Day

10 Facts about Mother’s Day

• The Carnation was the original Mother’s Day flower.  Pink & red for mom’s that are alive and white for those that have passed away.
• Anna Jarvis of West Virginia organized the first Mother’s Day celebration in 1908 in memory of her own mother.
• Jarvis never married and was childless.
• After spending years to have the day made a holiday, she later spent the rest of her life fighting to have it removed from the U.S. official calendar because of the commercialization of the day.
• By 1911 all U.S. states recognized the holiday and in 1914 Woodrow Wilson signed the proclamation making it a national holiday on the second Sunday in May.
• A version of Mother’s Day is celebrated around the world and throughout the year. 
• Currently it is celebrated in up to 50 countries
• United Kingdom: Mothering Sunday
• Armenia: Maternity and Beauty Day
• In most countries and languages the word for mother begins with the letter “m”