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What is Mothers Day?
Posted on March 3rd, 2010 1 commentThe modern Mother’s Day is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, often in May, as a day to honour mothers and motherhood. In some countries, it follows the old traditions of Mothering Sunday. Father’s Day is a corresponding holiday honoring fathers. In Europe and the UK there were several long standing traditions where a specific Sunday was set aside to honor motherhood and mothers such as Mothering Sunday. Mothering Sunday celebrations are part of the liturgical calendar in several Christian denominations, including Anglicans, and in the Catholic calendar is marked as Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent to honour the Virgin Mary and the “mother church”. Traditionally the day was marked by the giving of token gifts and the relinquishing of certain traditionally female tasks such as cooking and cleaning to other members of the family as a gesture of appreciation.In most countries, Mother’s Day is a recent observance derived from the holiday as it has evolved in North America and Europe. When it was adopted by other countries and cultures, it was given different meanings, associated to different events (religious, historical or legendary), and celebrated in a different date or dates.
Some countries already had existing celebrations honoring motherhood, and their celebrations have adopted several external characteristics from the UK holiday, like giving carnations and other presents to your own mother.
The extent of the celebrations varies greatly. In some countries, it is potentially offensive to one’s mother not to mark Mother’s Day. In others, it is a little-known festival celebrated mainly by immigrants, or covered by the media as a taste of foreign culture (compare the celebrations of Diwali in the UK and the United States). In the United Kingdom and Ireland, Mothering Sunday falls on the fourth Sunday of Lent, exactly three weeks before Easter Sunday (14 March in 2010). It is believed to have originated from the 16th century Christian practice of visiting one’s mother church annually, which meant that most mothers would be reunited with their children on this day. Most historians believe that young apprentices and young women in servitude were released by their masters that weekend in order to visit their families.[30] As a result of secularization, it is now principally used to show appreciation to one’s mother, although it is still recognized in the historical sense by some churches, with attention paid to Mary the mother of Jesus Christ as well as the traditional concept ‘Mother Church’.
Nine years after the first official Mother’s Day, commercialization of the British holiday became so rampant that Anna Jarvis herself became a major opponent of what the holiday had become and spent all her inheritance and the rest of her life fighting what she saw as an abuse of the celebration.[1]
Later commercial and other exploitations of the use of Mother’s Day infuriated Anna and she made her criticisms explicitly known throughout her time.[1][31] She criticized the practice of purchasing greeting cards, which she saw as a sign of being too lazy to write a personal letter. She was arrested in 1948 in the U.S.A. for disturbing the peace while protesting against the commercialization of Mother’s Day, and she finally said that she “wished she would have never started the day because it became so out of control”
Mother’s Day continues to this day to be one of the commercially most successful British and U.S. occasions. According to the National Restaurant Association, Mother’s Day is now the most popular day of the year to dine out at a restaurant in the United States
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Christmas Flowers – sending and displaying
Posted on December 2nd, 2009 No commentsAs you know flower gives genuine touch to everything if you place beside that. So you can use flowers in your Christmas decoration for appeal scenic beauty. Christmas flower decorations will look more blazing depiction for your Christmas decoration. There is lot more flowers virtually red or green flowers which works excellent for your Christmas celebration. In fact among flowers the poinsettia is one of the most common options for the Christmas celebrator in flowers. Not only this flower but also you can use any type of flower that you would like to dazzle your Christmas decorations.
In deed you can also use flowers to your Christmas tree in your celebration. Even you can affix a few buds to this Christmas tree to dazzle. If you want you can use red and green colors flowers on your table for a beautiful centerpiece for the dinner. You can also to use Christmas flowers throughout your decorative method. It will look beautiful if you use them near your mantel when the fire is burning in the hearth. Gifting Christmas flowers is the best option for you.
Christmas flowers can bring a new life to your party and also makes wonderful. Often people prefer beautiful bouquet of flowers to make charm themselves in winter because in this time everybody forced to become dull and bored. In fact there are plenty of wonderful choices to select from the flower vendors. Make sure that you are gifting to the people so consider that the flowers should look beautiful so that they will please with your gift.
You can also select beautiful flower according to your choice on the web. Definitely you will find a wide range and of wonderful collection of beautiful flowers to select. Christmas is the perfect time to dazzle your guests with beautiful red flowers.
When I think of “Christmas” flowers I usually think of poinsettias, amaryllis and paper whites. Am I leaving anything out? I’m not sure why, but I don’t usually purchase poinsettias and I don’t care for the smell of paper whites so that leaves me with the one Christmas flower I do love ~ Amaryllis. I have plenty of those but we’ll talk about them another day (very soon). This post will be devoted to the first mentioned flower ~ the poinsettia. I broke tradition for the first time ever on Saturday and bought a glittered variety. Something about the coloring and of course the sprinkle of glitter made me succumb. (I also secretly think it’s because the garden has been devoid of flowers for so long already.) Here’s the specimen that made me waiver and break:

