It's mother's day!
May. 11th, 2008 02:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsIt's the 100th Anniversary of Mother's Day, and West Virginia, which was the birthplace and residence of Anna Jarvis, the founder of Mother's Day, is having a huge to-do about it all. Jarvis apparently came to hate her creation: it had been intended as a Sunday off for Mothers, and instead it became commercialized in the United States with flowers and a card and gifts and things, and the godly Ms. Jarvis detested the way the moneyed interests had taken her blessing upon mothers everywhere and turned it into a curse. She did not want this day to be "happy"; it was supposed to be a sabbath, a time of rest for women and a respectful, faith-filled honoring.
Yeah, in America. Un-huh. Pull the other one.
As revealed yesterday, Kouryou-chan and Yamaraashi-chan spent the weekend over at the house of their friends, so when I picked them up this morning, I hurtled down to the International District to drop Yamaraashi-chan off wit her mother, then Kouryou-chan and I bought flowers and a card. Of course.
Yeah, in America. Un-huh. Pull the other one.
As revealed yesterday, Kouryou-chan and Yamaraashi-chan spent the weekend over at the house of their friends, so when I picked them up this morning, I hurtled down to the International District to drop Yamaraashi-chan off wit her mother, then Kouryou-chan and I bought flowers and a card. Of course.
