The driving force behind Mother's Day was one woman named Anna Jarvis who organized observances in West Virginia and Philadelphia exactly 101 years ago today, May 10, 1909. Congress set the day aside six years later and finally succeeded in 1914 and designated the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day. According to the US Census Bureau there were 82.8 million mothers in the US in 2004. Also, in 2006, more women became mothers in AUGUST, with 387,798 births. the most common day of the week on which babies were delivered in 2006 was WEDNESDAY. That was the first time since at least 1990 a day other than TUESDAY had this distinction. Thank you Anna and Zane for the beautiful flowers that arrived this morning shortly before we left for meeting...what a HUGE surprise...Sunday morning the doorbell is ringing....who could it be??? Lady Di's, of course, bringing flowers for the mom of this house! Daniel & Malia had just given me a $20. gift card to Starbucks shortly before that and I'd received phone calls from Anna and Derek and they apologizing that their cards were in the mail. I really appreciated the thoughtfulness of all my kids...the older they grow, the more thoughtful they become...they're maturing into the adults that a person hopes and prays for all their days of growing up! Love you kids...you're the best!!!
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5.10.2009
Happy Mother's Day
The driving force behind Mother's Day was one woman named Anna Jarvis who organized observances in West Virginia and Philadelphia exactly 101 years ago today, May 10, 1909. Congress set the day aside six years later and finally succeeded in 1914 and designated the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day. According to the US Census Bureau there were 82.8 million mothers in the US in 2004. Also, in 2006, more women became mothers in AUGUST, with 387,798 births. the most common day of the week on which babies were delivered in 2006 was WEDNESDAY. That was the first time since at least 1990 a day other than TUESDAY had this distinction. Thank you Anna and Zane for the beautiful flowers that arrived this morning shortly before we left for meeting...what a HUGE surprise...Sunday morning the doorbell is ringing....who could it be??? Lady Di's, of course, bringing flowers for the mom of this house! Daniel & Malia had just given me a $20. gift card to Starbucks shortly before that and I'd received phone calls from Anna and Derek and they apologizing that their cards were in the mail. I really appreciated the thoughtfulness of all my kids...the older they grow, the more thoughtful they become...they're maturing into the adults that a person hopes and prays for all their days of growing up! Love you kids...you're the best!!!
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