I’m Fixing to go Shopping for Some Flowers and Some Candy

I’m fixing to go shopping for some flowers and some candy.
All of y’all better do the same, too, because this coming Sunday, May the 8th, just three short days from today is Mother’s Day.

If you aren’t able to see her, then you better make your phone call early Sunday morning because the phone lines get all clogged up with all the calls, because you don’t want to be telling her on Monday that you couldn’t get through. After all, she always came through for you.

There’s an old Chinese Proverb that says, “There’s only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.” My mother once told me and my brothers that the best thing we could do for her on Mother’s Day was move out.

Oh, yes, and my mother could predict the future by reading cards. She would take one look at my report card and tell me exactly what my daddy was going to do when he got home. My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. Hey, I didn’t say that, Aristotle did.

The earliest history of Mother’s Day dates back to the era of ancient Greek and Romans, but the roots of it can also be traced in the United Kingdom where a Mothering Sunday was celebrated a long time before the day saw the light of day in the U.S.

Anna Jarvis is recognized as the founder of Mothers Day in this country. She never had any children of her own, but she did work hard to bestow honor on all mothers. Her own mother used to express her desire that someday someone must honor all mothers, living and dead, and pay tribute to the contributions made by them.

Ms. Jarvis never forgot her mother’s words and when she died in 1905, she resolved to fulfill her mother’s desire for having a Mother’s Day. Along with her supporters Ms. Jarvis wrote letters to people in positions of power, lobbying for the official declaration of a Mother’s Day holiday.

Her hard work paid off, and in 1911, Mother’s Day was celebrated in almost every state in the union, and on May 8, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed a Joint Resolution designating the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.

Today, not only is it celebrated in our country and the UK, but also in many other countries including India, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia, Mexico, Canada, China, Japan and Belgium.
There’s a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy—her heart!

So if you know what’s good for you, you better be fixing to honor your momma this Sunday.