SOMEONE once said, “Whenever I’m with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.” I am sure most of you will relate to it as I did when I first read it. But apart from the person we all consider as our strongest critic; a person who expects some things (which we are never sure what they are) from us we can never do. And a person who is always pointing out our mistakes no matter how successful we are in the eyes of the world, we just cannot be thankful enough for all that our mothers have done for us.
I am quite certain all of us agree that our mothers are the sweetest, the most valuable and the kindest gift of God. They are the persons who bring us in this world and take care of us when we are not able to do anything for ourselves. They take pains for us while bringing us up, sacrificing their vigour, time and energies. In fact everything they have for us.
So, to celebrate and honour the one person who has brought us into this world, we have a Mother’s Day. Till the time that we are able to take care of ourselves, probably even beyond that, she is always there. A mother is after all the person who looks at her middle-aged son and still sees a kid in him.
As the common misconception goes, Mother’s Day was not after all started by some greeting card company in an effort to sell more cards. The day’s history can be traced back to ancient times, when Romans used to honour mothers for their love, passion, compassion, kindness, concern, care and sacrifices.
In ancient Greece, Rhea, the wife of Cronus, and mother of gods and goddesses was worshipped.
A closer relative of the modern Mother’s Day is the Mothering Sunday or the Mid-Lent-Sunday, as was observed in England, on the fourth Sunday in Lent.
It came to the United States in the early 1900’s and finally became a national holiday there in 1914. Now it is celebrated all across the world. And if you are looking for a perfect idea to celebrate Mother’s Day with your mother and surprise her by doing something really nice and special for her on her special day. There are many web sites dedicated for this purpose. And one of this is www.everythingmothersday.com. As the address name suggests it has each and everything which has to do with Mother’s Day. Starring with the history of Mother’s Day, how it all started, the site offers ideas about what gifts to buy for your mother. They even offer the Top Ten ideas about the gifts you can buy for your mother.
The site has a Top Ten list of other mother related stuff too, like Top Ten Mom Quotes that you can write in your greeting card; Top Ten TV moms and Top Ten books for moms that you can give as gifts to your mother. This site even offers a Survey that shows what mom really DOESN’T want for Mother’s Day.
There is a site that offers some fun holiday things for you, your mom and your family. It has stories to read, some music to enjoy, pictures for the kids to colour, and a chance to add YOUR MOM to the celebration. http://www.holidays.net/mother has special features like small tips on what you should do for your mother on Mother’s Day to make it the most memorable day of her life. It has gift ideas for this day, poems for your mother and music that you can download. It also has Mother’s Day gift projects for the kids to make Mother’s Day gifts. This exercise is especially good for kids.
If you are thinking about cooking some things special for your mother on her day then, http://www.theholidayspot.com/mothersday can help you with some special recipes that you can treat your mother with. Surely she will love them!
The site also has craft ideas, wallpapers, greeting cards, gift ideas and Mother’s Day poems, which will leave the heart of your mother, filled with warmth. http://www.edhelper.com/MothersDay.htm is an educational, very informative and fun site for kids related to Mother’s Day. The site has math work sheets where children can learn how to add, subtract, divide etc. while having fun. It also has Mother’s Day reading comprehensions. Mother’s Day graphics which can be downloaded through your printer and the kids can colour them. Mother’s Day spelling maze, fill in the missing words, vocabulary, crossword puzzles and many more learning stuff, all related to Mother’s Day which children can learn while enjoying Mother’s Day with their moms. This is a site, which is both fun and learns at the same time.
There is a web site that has a beautiful poem about mothers. It also tells us what the Bible says about mothers. But there are other rather intriguing pieces of advice as well, like, “Always change your underwear; you never know when you’ll have an accident”.
This and many more such advises can be found at http://wilstar.net/holidays/mothers.htm in the Motherly advice section. So next time you are missing your mother or just want a motherly advice you know where to look for.
There is no greater sacrifice on earth, than making the decision to be a parent our mothers have made. Let me end this with a poem I just read on the Net. I am sure, everyone will agree to every word of it.
“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.
SOMEONE once said, “Whenever I’m with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.” I am sure most of you will relate to it as I did when I first read it. But apart from the person we all consider as our strongest critic; a person who expects some things (which we are never sure what they are) from us we can never do. And a person who is always pointing out our mistakes no matter how successful we are in the eyes of the world, we just cannot be thankful enough for all that our mothers have done for us.
