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Sunday….and its Mothers Day

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Happy Mothers Day to all mum’s

Just to confuse our overseas friends…it IS Mothers Day today. Yep, here in the UK, this year Mothers Day falls on the 11th March.**

In our family it is an extra special Mothers Day as we have a new Mother to add to the list.  Hayley one of our granddaughters celebrates her first Mothers Day having given birth to Esmee on the 2nd January.

So to mark the occasion here is a very proud Great Grandma and an equally proud Granddaughter with a very healthy Esmee…  the Oldest and the Youngest ‘Mums’ in our family.

Grandma is also equally proud of her family tree.

** Mothers Day, before commercialisation occurred, is more accurately known as Mothering Sunday. Mothering Sunday is held on the fourth Sunday of Lent. It is exactly three weeks before Easter Sunday and usually falls in the second half of March or early April.

11th March

(C) David Oakes 2018

4 thoughts on “Sunday….and its Mothers Day”

  2. Beautiful Mums! I didn’t realize you celebrated Mother’s Day on the fourth Sunday of Lent. Of course, here in the USA, we celebrate in May, which I always find fitting because both my mother and my mother-in-law’s birthdays were in May and my oldest child’s birthday (when I first became a mother) is also in May. So it’s a special month to me.

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    1. Mothering Sunday in the UK (and some parts of Europe) pre dates your Mothers Day. Se note below. None the less for you May is a special month for you and adds to your Mothers Day celebrations. Yep we predate the commercial involvement. Here is the note courtesy of Wikipedia :- During the 16th century, people returned to their mother church for a service to be held on Laetare Sunday;[2] in this context, one’s ‘mother church’ was either the church where one was baptised, or the local parish church, or the nearest cathedral (the latter being the mother church of all the parish churches in a diocese). Anyone who did this was commonly said to have gone “a-mothering”, although whether this term preceded the observance of Mothering Sunday is unclear. In later times, Mothering Sunday became a day when domestic servants were given a day off to visit their mother church, usually with their own mothers and other family members. It was often the only time that whole families could gather together, since on other days they were prevented by conflicting working hours, and servants were not given free days on other occasions.

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