Happy Mother's Day

Today is a day to honor and celebrate mothers, motherhood and maternal bonds...

Here's a bit of interesting trivia for you:

The first Mother's Day holiday was celebrated right here in West Virginia!

In 1908 Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother at St. Andrews Methodist Church in Grafton, WV.

By 1914 Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation creating Mother's Day as a national holiday to honor mothers on the second Sunday in May.

Happy Mother's Day to mothers everywhere!

What Is A Mother?

A mother is someone to shelter and guide us,

To love us, whatever we do,

With a warm understanding and infinite patience,

And wonderful gentleness too.

How often a mother means swift reassurance in 

soothing our small, childish fears,

How tenderly mothers watch over their children

And treasure them all through the years.

The heart of a mother is full of forgiveness for any mistake, big or small,

And generous always in helping her family whose needs she has placed above all.

A mother can utter a word of compassion and make all our cares fall away,

She can brighten a home with the sound of her laughter

and make life delightful and gay.

A mother possesses incredible wisdom and wonderful insight and skill

In each human heart is that one special corner 

which only a mother can fill.

- Katherine Nelson Davis