{"id":1167,"date":"2014-05-11T10:12:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T10:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annetarsia.com\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2014-05-11T15:20:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T15:20:06","slug":"mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/2014\/05\/mothers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Anne<\/a>
Anne and Peggy – 1963<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"William<\/a>
William and Anne. 1988. Thanks, William, for making me a Mom!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Anna Jarvis created Mother’s Day in 1910, to honor her own mother, who cared for Civil War soldiers and worked tirelessly on Public Health issues.\u00a0 Her idea took off, but by the 1920’s it had become commercialized and Anna actively tried to rescind the holiday.\u00a0 It was too late.\u00a0 When I was a girl, my parents called holidays like Mother’s Day and Father’s Day “Hallmark holidays”, which existed for the purpose of selling cards and flowers.\u00a0 Now, it has escalated way past that.\u00a0 Advertising implies that if my kids don’t buy me jewelry (a car, a new bed, etc) this weekend, it is a sign they don’t love or appreciate me.\u00a0 Anna Jarvis would be horrified.<\/p>\n

Obviously, my family never observed this type of holiday, and I didn’t even pay much attention to it until the year my own mother died.\u00a0 Then, when I walked into Fred Meyer a few weeks after she died, in April 2000, I was struck by the bombardment of Mother’s Day advertising.\u00a0\u00a0 What about those of us without mothers?\u00a0 Stick a knife in the wound, why don’t you?\u00a0 After the first impact, I was prepared and gradually learned to ignore it.<\/p>\n

I did enjoy Mother’s Day when the kids were young.\u00a0 They would make crafts at school to give to me, and I still treasure those.\u00a0 I don’t think giving your mother a hand-crafted item should be limited to a special occasion, but I’ll take what I can get!<\/p>\n

I lost my Mom too early, and I miss her – not as intensely or as often as in the first years after she died so unexpectedly.\u00a0 But I do miss her.\u00a0 We were close, and spent lots of time together.\u00a0 She was a terrific grandmother, and was completely devoted to my family.\u00a0 We didn’t need a holiday to let her know how much we loved and appreciated her, we were able to tell her and show her any and every day of the week.\u00a0 I didn’t realize how important that was until we lost her, and I was grateful that we had a huge bank of memories to draw from – casual dinners in her back yard after work, the kids helping her weed her garden, laughing when her puppy, Sandy, dug up the carrots. It is the simple memories that last.<\/p>\n

So, if you are lucky enough to still have her in this world – call your Mom, take her to lunch, share a funny video on her FB page, whatever you can do to stay connected.\u00a0 Every day is an opportunity to connect with those that we love!<\/p>\n

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