I can’t believe it’s Mother’s Day already — this year is flying! I hope you all enjoy a weekend of sleeping in, gourmet breakfast in bed and lounging on the couch while your children (busy cleaning, of course) occasionally pop in to give you a kiss or a hug or chocolate. (The real Mother’s Day dream.) I’m guessing that Mother’s Day is just a holiday here in the States, right? Do other countries have an equivalent holiday? (This is a really interesting article about how the founder of Mother’s Day spent her whole life trying to take it back.)
Here are some things I’ve been meaning to tell you:
- If you follow me on Twitter and I don’t already follow you back, shoot me a message! I’d love to follow you as well.
- And is everyone following along on Facebook too? My very ambitious goal is to have 1,000 FB followers and/or 1,000 Twitter followers by my 25th birthday (August 27), so help me out! Spread the word! I owe you.
- I just discovered the blog yes and yes, which is where the above image is from. Such an inspirational spot! If you ever find yourself looking through your baby-less friend’s vacation pictures and feeling envious, or feeling insecure that the mom in play group has it all together, read this.
- A video tribute to young mamas making a difference.
- A great article about the stereotypes of young motherhood over at The Frisky.
I also write for Babble.com’s Family Style and Being Pregnant. Here’s what’s going on:
- You have until tomorrow to enter our Mother’s Day giveaway from Stella & Dot! (Have you seen their jewelry?) 15 lucky winners will receive a custom jewelry collection — just tell us who your celeb fashion inspiration is!
- I usually hate these, yet…I kind of love these.
- Why did it take so long to invent this? Right, city mamas?
- I’m obsessed with this idea.
- Creepiest. Baby. Shower. Cakes. Ever.
- The first one kind of makes me want to get pregnant…
And here’s what’s going on in the Early Mama world:
- The difference between men and women? Guilt.
- Did you know that the incredibly talented woman behind Handmade Charlotte was an Early Mama as well?
- The best gift this mom ever got. (P.S.: how gorg is she?!)
- Fellow young Babble-blogging mom, Stevee, is about to go into labor any minute.
- And another one of us Early Mamas at Babble just had her third baby, Addison.
- Remember the Q+A from Elissa yesterday? Everyone should totally add her Tumblr to their daily reads.
- Look how far these triplets have come in two months!
- Alessandra attempted to make a stuffed animal out of her child’s drawing and ended up terrifying him. But what a clever idea!
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I love the picture on the yes and yes blog post–too funny! It’s scary sometimes to see my 3 year old play with her little girlfriends…even at that age, girls can be so mean!
There’s Mothering Sunday in the UK and I’m fairly sure it’s in the rest of Europe, too. In the UK and Ireland, it’s the 4th Sunday of Lent and was originally a 16th century celebration of the Virgin Mary and a day when everyone visited their mother church – where they were christened, so it was when families were traditionally reunited. It began to peter out a bit until the early 20th century Mothering Sunday Movement. But it wasn’t until the Americans came over in the Second World War that it properly came back, as Mother’s Day.
During the Second World War, land girls were also given the 4th Sunday off work, so they often took advantage of this to go and see their mothers.