Happy Mother’s Day

I hope that May 10^th 2026 is a happy day for you.  There are so many ways to celebrate Mother’s Day.  Maybe for you and your Mom it is chocolates or flowers or jewellery.  Or maybe it is a wiener roast or a picnic or pizza at The Shop Instagram, lunch at Prairie Lake Lodge | Facebook or a meal at your favourite local restaurant. How about a hike or a horseback ride? Or, maybe you are busy and forgot that May 10^th is Mother’s Day, or you are far away so it will be a phone call or a book ordered online or some thing special like a beeswax candle or beautiful, raw honey straight from the bees to your Mom https://wendellestate.ca/

Anna Jarvis is credited with being the founder of Mothers Day in the US and Canada https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/the-tragic-story-behind-mother-s-day-1.989280 While she might be pleased to know that we continue to mark this holiday, she would not be happy with the commercialization of the day. I tend to avoid the commercialism of most holidays, and the obligations that we perhaps feel are put upon us, but I do love a reason to celebrate and be grateful for the good in my life. 

 And for another point of view, I just read Anne Lamott’s Mother’s Day post even though it comes with a warning from Anne:  “This is for those of you who may feel a kind of sheet metal loneliness on Sunday, who had an awful mother, or a mother who recently died, or wanted to but didn’t get to have kids, or had kids who ended up breaking your hearts. If you love the day and have or had a great mom and happy, highly successful kids, maybe skip it:”

https://www.facebook.com/AnneLamott/posts/here-is-my-annual-mothers-day-post-only-for-those-of-you-who-dread-the-holiday-d/980940533394453

I hear you, Anne, Mother’s Day is not for some to celebrate.  Each of us to our own ways. On Mother’s Day I am reminded to celebrate nurturing, to find the nurturing offered by my family, friends, community and environment, to accept it and to offer it back to them, perhaps in a different form. I will remember the nurturers that have been a part of my life, including my mother and mother-in-law. I will feel my special connections to each of my children, children-in-law, thought-of-as-my-children and my grandchildren. I will hold on to the thought that in my world, Mother’s Day is not about buying but about being and feeling and doing and sharing. Maybe we could just have tea and talk or go for a walk in the valley or share a meal together some day…any day is a good mother’s day.    

I hope to read your thoughts in the comment section, as both writing and gathering thoughts are hobbies of mine.