Happy 4th of July/Independence Day to my fellow Americans!!  I hope you all have a wonderful day celebrating our awesome country!!

Happy Mother’s Day to all you fabulous mothers out there!! 

I wanted to share this poem written by Amanda from The Mom Crowd.  I read it the other day and it just really touched my heart.  She somehow managed to put into words some of the joy I experience in being a mother to my daughter. 

Also, I found an article from holidays.net that gives an actual history of Mother’s Day.  I hadn’t thought about it before but it’s pretty interesting to see how it got started, especially here in the United States.  Here is an excerpt:

In the United States, Mother’s Day experienced a series of false starts before eventually transitioning into the “Hallmark” holiday that we celebrate today. In 1858, Anna Reeves Jarvis was the first woman to hold an official celebration of mothers, when in her home state of West Virginia, she instituted Mothers’ Work Day to raise awareness about local sanitation issues. During the Civil War, she expanded the scope of Mothers’ Work Day to include sanitary conditions on both sides of the battlefield.

I hope you all have a very fun, relaxing, and enjoyable Mother’s Day. May no mother wash a single dish or fold a single piece of laundry on this day…