In continuation to the post last Friday.

Sadly, a mere nine years after the first official Mother’s Day was celebrated, Anna Jarvis became a major opponent of what the holiday had become.  She wanted to keep the holiday simple, yet commercialization became rampant and this was quite different than how she had envisioned her original idea.
 
Mother’s Day is now the most popular day of the entire year to dine out at a restaurant.  American’s are expected to pay $3.51 billion dollars dining out on Mother’s Day.  Most people dine out for brunch or dinner.   It is by far the most commercially successful holiday that is celebrated in the United States, even surpassing Christmas.  Americans will spend approximately 68 million on greeting cards this Mother’s Day.  There is expected to be approximately $2.6 billion spent on flowers.  There will be approximately $1.53 billion spent on spa treatments and other lovely pampering gifts for Mom.

Mother’s everywhere work hard and deserve all the thanks that they can be given.  The commercialism is certainly a far cry from the day of rest for Mom’s that was what Anna Jarvis set out to accomplish in 1908, but everyone seems to enjoy pampering their Mom on one special day.

Here’s wishing all Mom’s a Happy Mother’s Day….no matter how you decide to celebrate it.