The History of Mother's Day

We’ve all grown up celebrating Mother’s Day. Whether it was taking your mom out to brunch on the second Sunday of May, or picking up a bouquet of flowers on your way to her house, it is a holiday we don’t forget.  But Mother’s Day was not always a holiday, in fact as far as national holidays go it’s a relatively recent one.  While there is plenty of controversy over who was the ‘mother’ of Mother’s Day, most sources attribute the idea to Anna Jarvis, a copywriter from West Virginia who took up the torch from her own mother to bring...