Here we are again. It's that special day for mothers. I hope you all have a really great day.
I felt we needed something different, so I decided to provide some Mother's Day facts from the Internet (www.mothersdaycelebration.com/). Why not check out some more for yourself?
During the 1600s, England celebrated a day called "Mothering Sunday," the fourth Sunday of Lent.
When children as young as 10 left home to work or start apprenticeships, Mother's Day was often the only day in the whole year when families would be reunited.
In the United States, Mother's Day was first celebrated in Boston in 1870 as a day commemorating peace after a suggstion by Julia Ward Howe.
In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the second Sunday of May would become a national holiday for Mother's Day.
The youngest mom on record was Linda Medina from Lima, Peru. In 939, she gave birth to a son when she was only five years and s ven months old herself.
In 2003, Satabhama Mahapatra, a 65-year-old retired schoolteacher in India, became the world's oldest mother. Satabhama and her husband had been married 50 years, but this was their first child conceived through artificial insemination using eggs from the woman's 26-year-old niece and the sperm of her niece's husband.
Bobby McCaughey holds the record for the most surviving children from a single birth. She gave birth to the first set of surviving septuplets - four boys and three girls - in 1997 at the University Hospital, Iowa.
The highest officially recorded number of children born to one mother is 69. Between 1725 and 1765 the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev (1707-82) of Shuya, Russian gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets in a total of 27 pregnancies. Sixty-seven of the children survived infancy.
Many of the sweaters worn by Mr. Rogers on the popular TV show, Mr. Rogers' Neighbourhood, were actually knitted by his mom.
Have a good week and take care.
