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A Tribute to all Mothers
Around the world

"Put on a sweater ...You'll catch cold!"

"What if everyone jumped off a cliff? Would you do it too?"

"Don't make those faces..your face will freeze like that"

"Wear clean underwear in case you get into an accident"

"If you can't say anything nice... don't say anything at all"

"Don't put that in your mouth; you don't know where it's been"

"Because I'm your mother that's why!"

"If I told you once.. I told you a million times!"

Poems To My Mother

Quotes to Mom's

You Know you're a Mother when....

The Story of Mother's Day.

Mother.....

All the beauty of Earth
and all the glory of Heaven
cannot compare;
to the beauty
that is your heart.
It shines through your eyes
when you look at me.
I love you with all the
powers I possess.
Yesterday;
Today;
Tomorrow;
Throughout Eternity...

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	The Story of Mother's Day The earliest Mother's Day celebrations can be traced back to the spring celebrations of ancient Greece in honor of Rhea, the Mother of the Gods. During the 1600's, England celebrated a day called "Mothering Sunday". Celebrated on the 4th Sunday of Lent (the 40 day period leading up to Easter*), "Mothering Sunday" honored the mothers of England. During this time many of the England's poor worked as servants for the wealthy. As most jobs were located far from their homes, the servants would live at the houses of their employers. On Mothering Sunday the servants would have the day off and were encouraged to return home and spend the day with their mothers. A special cake, called the mothering cake, was often brought along to provide a festive touch. As Christianity spread throughout Europe the celebration changed to honor the "Mother Church" - the spiritual power that gave them life and protected them from harm. Over time the church festival blended with the Mothering Sunday celebration . People began honoring their mothers as well as the church. In the United States Mother's Day was first suggested in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe (who wrote the words to the Battle hymn of the Republic) as a day dedicated to peace. Ms. Howe would hold organized Mother's Day meetings in Boston, Mass ever year. In 1907 Ana Jarvis, from Philadelphia, began a campaign to establish a national Mother's Day. Ms. Jarvis persuaded her mother's church in Grafton, West Virginia to celebrate Mother's Day on the second anniversary of her mother's death, the 2nd Sunday of May. By the next year Mother's Day was also celebrated in Philadelphia. Ms. Jarvis and her supporters began to write to ministers, businessman, and politicians in their quest to establish a national Mother's Day. It was successful as by 1911 Mother's Day was celebrated in almost every state. President Woodrow Wilson, in 1914, made the official announcement proclaiming Mother's Day as a national holiday that was to be held each year on the 2nd Sunday of May. While many countries of the world celebrate their own Mother's Day at different times throughout the year, there are some countries such as Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia, and Belgium which also celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday of May.

		You Know that You're a Mother When... By: Debbie Farmer They are: You catch spit up with your hands... on purpose. Your kitchen cupboards are crammed full of recycled plastic Easter eggs. You get phone messages written with purple crayon that say "kzzrg 23". You're bored going out to lunch with your successful childless friends because all they want to talk about is current events and national politics instead of more stimulating topics like, say, why exactly does breast milk poo poo look so much like gourmet mustard? You can't go a day without using the words "boozah, boozah". You clean a pacifier by sucking off the dirt with your lips. At the playground you mean to say things like, "Come here, Sweetie. It's time to go home now," but all that comes out is, "You stop now go here." You learn to sleep while propped up on the sofa with both eyes open pretending to watch your child sing karaoke to the songs on the Chipmunk's Christmas album. You buy clothes embroidered with friendly barnyard animals. The word zwieback means something to you. You've become an expert on answering questions like "Do tornadoes poop?" A relaxing vacation is spending ten minutes just about anywhere on this planet - alone. You tie your tennis shoes in double knots. Your definition of living la vida loca is staying awake long enough to watch the sports section of the ten o'clock news. You have a box in your top dresser drawer, filled with baby teeth and a black umbilical cord stump, that you whip out on special occasions to impress your houseguests with. Two words that strike mortal fear into your heart: Projectile vomiting. Suddenly snow boots don't really look all that bad with a pink leotard. You are late everywhere because the stroller that turns into a highchair, a swing and a changing table somehow got folded into an airplane and the wings keep getting stuck in the lid of the trunk your child prefers the Zen way of life over adhering to strict schedules or it took longer than you expected to pack the snacks, changes of clothes, dry socks, sand toys, diapers, rain slicker, bathing suits, crayons, superhero action figures, and pink plastic heels into the five steamer trunks you need to take with you every time you leave the house. You can say, with utmost objectivity, that your child is the smartest, wittiest, best-looking, and most perfect child in the history of the world.

			"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother." -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) "God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers." -- Jewish proverb "Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother." -- Lin Yutang "The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." -- Honore' de Balzac (1799-1850) "My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her." -- George Washington (1732-1799) "By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class." -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1907- ) "The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom." -- Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) "Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) "I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life." -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." --Author Unknown
TO MY MOTHER Because I feel that in the heavens above The angels, whispering one to another, Can find among their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of "Mother," Therefore by that dear name I have long called you, You who are more than mother unto me, And filled my heart of hearts, where death installed you, In setting my Virginia's spirit free. My mother -- my own mother, who died early, Was but the mother of myself; but you Are the mother to the one I loved so dearly, And thus are dearer than the mother I knew But that infinity with which my wife Was dearer to my soul that its soul-life. --Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) M-O-T-H-E-R "M" is for the million things she gave me, "O" means only that she's growing old, "T" is for the tears she shed to save me, "H" is for her heart of purest gold; "E" is for her eyes, with love-light shining, "R" means right, and right she'll always be, Put them all together, they spell "MOTHER," A word that means the world to me. --Howard Johnson (c. 1915) THAT WONDERFUL MOTHER OF MINE The moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of that wonderful mother of mine. The birds never sing but a message they bring Of that wonderful mother of mine. Just to bring back the time, that was so sweet to me, Just to bring back the days, when I sat on her knee. I pray ev'ry night to our Father above, For that wonderful mother of mine. I ask Him to keep her as long as He can That -- wonderful mother of mine. There are treasures on earth, that made life seem worthwhile, But there's none can compare to my mother's smile. (Refrain) You are a wonderful mother, dear old Mother of mine. You'll hold a spot down deep in my heart, 'Till the stars no longer shine. Your soul shall live on forever, On through the fields of time. For there'll never be another to me, Like that wonderful Mother of mine. -- Clyde Hager A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. -- Washington Irving (1783-1859) MOTHERHOOD The bravest battle that ever was fought! Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not; 'Twas fought by the mothers of men. Nay not with the cannon of battle-shot, With a sword or noble pen; Nay, not with eloquent words or thought From mouth of wonderful men! But deep in a walled-up woman's heart -- Of a woman that would not yield, But bravely, silently bore her part -- Lo, there is the battlefield! No marshalling troops, no bivouac song, No banner to gleam and wave; But oh! those battles, they last so long -- From babyhood to the grave. Yet, faithful still as a bridge of stars, She fights in her walled-up town -- Fights on and on in her endless wars, Then silent, unseen, goes down. Oh, ye with banners and battle-shot, And soldiers to shout and paise! I tell you the kingliest victories fought Were fought in those silent ways. O spotless woman in a world of shame, With splendid and silent scorn, Go back to God as white as you came -- The Kingliest warrior born! -- Joaquin Miller (1839-1913)

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