Hey, Mom!
May 10, 2025
Hey Mom, Mom, Mooooooommm!
While motherhood has always been universally elevated across all cultures throughout time, the United States’ version of Mother’s Day, you might be surprised to learn, was initially conceived by a woman, Anna Jarvis, as a “workday.” Uh hu, it was a “work day” for women to come together for common unity around motherhood to heal the huge divide in our culture following the Civil War. She envisioned the day as a time to bring women together to actively “work for peace, unity and the recognition of mothers' important role in the fabric of society.
Tomorrow is one of the most bittersweet days on the calendar for many of us mothers loving children from difficult beginnings. There can be so much love, grief, work, despair, disappointment, fear and joy in this day for us mothers. If this doesn’t apply to you, because you love Mother’s Day, then don’t even read any further. For the rest of us, here are a few suggestions to help better enjoy tomorrow:
- Celebrate yourself every day of the year that you can because you deserve it. Mothering is beautiful and it is as hard as it feels.
- Don’t wait for your children or partner to acknowledge you for all you do. Acknowledge yourself. Plan today how you will do that tomorrow.
- Give yourself the gift of help whenever it is offered to you throughout the year.
- If you want flowers and breakfast in bed tomorrow, ask specifically for that because you probably won’t be getting that tomorrow if you don’t (and maybe even if you do.)
- Enjoy time outside with your kids tomorrow because everyone is more grounded, peaceful and playful outside.
- Expect a mess if your kids think they need to make stuff in the kitchen for you. When there is spillage everywhere, think of this as love in action. Smile when you end up cleaning it all because that big mess is how much they love you.
- Pick a day next week to do something special for yourself alone or with your friends or treat yourself to those earrings you have been thinking about or check out that new tea shop in town.
- Delight another mother you know tomorrow. Turns out that is often a gift to yourself in disguise. The connection will give you a huge dose of happy neurochemicals.
- Just a thought: Maybe do a little social work in honor of Anna Jarvis and yourself for peace, unity and universal recognition of the importance of mothers to the fabric of our world: https://makemothersmatter.org, https://everymothercounts.org, https://www.heifer.org, https://www.unicefusa.org plus hundreds more.
- Remember, Your Love Matters, Mama.
Solidarity💐,
❤️ Ce
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