Mother’s Day Holiday and Traditions

In the USA, Mother’s Day is celebrated every second Sunday in May. I have a childhood memory of my mother dressing me up to attend Sunday worship services. She pinned a red carnation to my clothing. Then I noticed that she was wearing a white carnation. I asked her why. She said because her mother had passed away. If your mother has passed away you wear a white carnation.  If your mother is still alive you wear a red carnation. Personally, I never carried on this tradition with my own children. These days I don’t see very many people wearing carnations on Mother’s Day. Perhaps it’s no longer a common practice. But, in my own way and you could say, in my own tradition, I do celebrate and honor mothers; my mother, all mothers, and all women. Because all women are all mothers.

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“Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” ?  ~ (QuoteSource)

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Interesting Links:

Dunlap, Melissa. “Give Mom Carnations on Mother’s Day.” SheKnows, She Knows Media, 8 May 2012.

Giordano, Catherine.  “Why We Celebrate Mother’s Day All Over the World.”  Holidappy. HUBPages, Inc.  7 April 2017.

Pellegrini, Nicole (aka sockii). “Remembering Childless Women on Mother’s Day.”  Wizzley. Wizzley, Inc.  Aug 2015.

FOX, Treathyl. “Artists I Fancy: Claudia Tremblay”.  Joie De VivreMagazine.  Blogger, 25 Apr. 2018. The art of Claudia Tremblay celebrates womanhood; especially motherhood.

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