April 3rd - Mothers Day in the UK

The perfect time to say thanks for everything to ALL Mums and Nan's wherever you may be in the world.

Hope you all get spoilt, with breakfast in bed as a minimum and lots of cards from the family. 

I'm a mum and a gradmum Ron so nice cards and gifts come my way today, but I have just had a phone call from my daughter in law to tell me what an unusual gift my eldest grandson has given her - a token for Tickle Fish. For the uninitiated like me Tickle Fish provide a pedicure service where you put your feet into a tank and tiny fish remove all the unwanted bits on your feet. I'm particularly fond of my toes, so maybe I wont be going there.

Happy Mothering Sunday to all. 

Happy Mother's Day to all Mum's and Grandma's on POE, may you all have a wonderful day and be wonderfully spoilt.

South Africa's Mother's Day is the second Sunday in May (I think it is probably the same in America?)

Happy Mothering Sunday!

I made a Bread and Butter Pudding in honour of my mum, who passed away many years ago. It was wonderful! And a wonderful way to remember her.  

Yes, a very Happy (belated now) Mother's Day to all our UK mums.

Mothering Sunday - how lovely.  I actually learned somegthing new about Mothers Day in the UK this year.  A couple weeks ago somebody had posted some photos of a bakery with Mothers Day cakes in the display cases, so I thought we'd missed Mother's Day.  Last year it was in March.  But today in my little Lenten devotional there was a little article about "Mothering Sunday."  It seems that it's a moveable holiday because it falls on the fourth Sunday of Lent.  Is that how it's actually fixed?

Here's what the article said:

First the citation:  It's from The Magnificat Lenten Companion 2008. The article is entitled Lent in Catholic England and Scotland by James Monti.  It talks about the Sarum Rite (Old Sarum being Salisbury Cathedral), the Lenten Veil and Mothering Sunday.  Here's what it says about Mothering Sunday:

"The fourth Sunday of Lent, universally referred to as Laetare Sunday, imbued with a joyful character, has also been known for centuries in England and Scotland as "Mothering Sunday."  The term stems from the custom that on this day adult children away from home are to return to their native place to attend Mass at the "mother church" (the district's principal church) and visit their own mothers.  Traceable to the fifteenth century, this practice is thought to have been inspired by the epistle formerly assgned to this Sunday, from Saint Paul's Letter to the Galatians (4:22-31), which speaks of the heavenly Jerusalem as "our mother" (verse 26).  Sons and daughters bring their mothers gifts, particularly the fruit-filled pastry known as "simnel cake."  The children spend the day talking and eating with their mother and father.  In Scotland and northern England, this day is also known as "Carling Sunday," a name derived from pea-flavored pancakes called "carlings" that the joyful mothers prepare to welcome their returning children."

How cool is that!!!

Right you are, Cathy.  It's always the second Sunday in May here, but there is no ancient religious tradition associated with it.  We celebrate Father's Day the third Sunday in June.

Happy Mother's Day to all you mom's in the Uk....we just settled with an nice old fashioned Roast Beef Sunday Dinner today around my house..but I suppose my daughter in-law might of liked not having to cook today.