Mother´s Day & Gift Ideas

Mother’s Day is celebrated around the world and this year Mother´s Day is celebrated on May 10,2020 in United States and also in Finland.

Many families have traditionally bring breakfast for the mother in her bed with self-made card. With cards, the mother is often remembered with a Mother’s Day poem or verse.

Today, Mother’s Day lunches and brunches are also popular. Here in Finland our Mother´s Day tradition is to collect white anemones for mothers. I did that every year when I was younger and lived in home but as a adult, I usually send a card. At the Finnish Mother's Day celebration, the President of the Republic awards Mother's Day badges to deserving mothers. Grandmothers are also often celebrated on Mother’s Day.

How Mother´s Day Celebration Started

The Mother´s day celebration began in the United States when Anna Jarvis mother died in 1905 which made her thinking society haven´t take into account the role of mothers the nation's industrialization and raising children. At Jarvis' suggestion, a memorial service was held for all mothers at Andrews Methodist Church in May 1907. The following year, May 10, 1908, the first “official” Mother’s Day celebration was celebrated in Jarvis ’hometown of Philadelphia, and six years later, in 1914, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson declared Mother’s Day a national holiday to be celebrated on the second Sunday in May.

Mother's Day was celebrated in Finland for the first time on July 7, 1918, although only in Alavieska. Mother's Day was brought to Finland by Vilho Reima, who once worked as a primary school teacher and Member of Parliament. The following year, the day was celebrated on the third Sunday in May and in several localities, but by 1927 the present time had become established for Mother's Day. Mother's Day was confirmed as the official flagging day in 1947.

Mother´s Day Around The World

Nowadays, the second Sunday of May is settled and below is dates and other countries when they have Mother´s Day.

• February second Sunday ━ Norway
• March 8th ━ Albania, Bulgaria and Romania
• Mothering Sunday ━ Ireland and United Kingdom
• March 21nd ━ Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
• May first Sunday ━ Spain, South Africa, Lithuania, Portugal, Hungary
• May 8th ━ South Korea (Parents' Day)
• May 10th ━ United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Commonly celebrated in South America 
• May second Sunday ━ Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Philippines, Hong Kong, Italy, Austria, Japan, Canada, China, Cuba, Latvia, Malta, Peru, Germany, Singapore, Slovakia, Finland, Switzerland, Taiwan, Denmark, Czech Republic, Turkey, New Zealand, Estonia, United States 
• May 26th ━ Poland
• May 27th ━ Bolivia
• Last Sunday of May ━ Dominican Republic, Sweden
• June first Sunday or last Sunday of May ━ France
• Aug 12th ━ Thailand (Queen Sirikit's Birthday)
• Aug 15th ━ Belgium (Antwerp), Costa Rica
• Second Sunday of October ━ Argentina
• Oct 14th ━ Belarus
• Last Sunday of November ━ Russia
• Dec 8th ━ Panama
• Dec 22nd ━ Indonesia
  

Gift Ideas For Mothers:

• Cook for your mom special dinner
• Spend movie night together or go to cinema together
• Buy a ticket in her favorite concert
• Buy a jewelry
• Reserve table in her favorite restaurant
• Buy flower bouquet
• Make a long phone call if can´t visit 
• Take a walk to the park
• Record a video (everyone can say "Happy Mother´s Day" etc)
• Make a playlist 
• Make your own card

Or go to help your mom with her garden or offer helping hand with yard.

~ Minna