Happy Mother’s Day on Sunday

Carnations are my favorite flower and I did not know it but the White Carnation is the official flower for Mother’s Day.

Here is a little History from Good Housekeeping: “Anna Reeves Jarvis is most often credited with founding Mother’s Day. After her mother Ann died on May 9, 1905, Jarvis set out to create a day that would honor her and moms as a group. She began the movement in West Virginia, which prides itself on hosting the first official Mother's Day celebration three years later at Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church, on May 10, 1908 where Jarvis sent 500 white carnations. 

Jarvis compared that flower’s shape and life cycle to a mother’s love. “The carnation does not drop its petals, but hugs them to its heart as it dies, and so too, mothers hug their children to their hearts, their mothers’ love never dying,” she said in a 1927 interview, cited in Nat Geo. 

In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill recognizing Jarvis' idea as a national holiday to be celebrated each second Sunday in May.”

This Sunday, send a white carnation to the Mother’s you have in your life. If you cannot physically send them a flower, text them a picture.

Photo by cottonbro studio: https://www.pexels.com/photo/stem-of-white-carnation-flower-on-a-glass-vase-6806944/

I will be celebrating the mothers in my life who are my daughters, sisters and friends. I will say a little prayer for each of them and remember My Wonderful and Special Mother in Heaven as well as my Grandmothers and those special women in my life.