Mother's Day celebrations are going on throughout the Southern Tier and across the world today.

According to History.com, the origins of Mother's Day can be traced back to the ancient Greeks and Romans and an early Christian festival known as "Mothering Sunday." The American version of Mother's Day goes back to 1908 and a lady named Anna Jarvis when she honored her mother and actually thought it was a good opportunity to teach women in her village the proper way to care for their children.

Anna worked hard to make it an official holiday in this country some six years later. Interestingly, after the holiday became commercialized, Anna spent "the latter part of her life trying to remove it from the calendar."

I'm so glad her desire to remove Mother's Day from the calendar did not work. Can you imagine if there was a Father's Day and not a Mother's Day?!! I'm just kidding, of course.  That would never happen. Mother's Day isn't going anywhere. It has been and always will be celebrated on the second Sunday in May.

From my family to yours, have a very happy Mother's Day!

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