Mother's day - March 14

Don't worry, you yanks have until May 9, but in the UK 'Mothering Sunday' is the fourth Sunday of Lent, so another floating date to throw in along with Pancake Day, Good Friday, and Easter Monday.  (I also read somewhere that 'mothering Sunday' wasn't even about mothers, it was about visiting the 'mother church' -- the church you were baptized in -- so who knows.)

Here's a fun fact, though:  In 1907, two years after her mother's death, Anna Jarvis embarked on a campaign to make "Mother's Day" a recognized holiday in the States. She succeeded in 1914 but by the 1920s she had become embittered by the commericialization of the holiday, complaining that too many people sent their mothers a printed greeting card which, she said, "means nothing except that you are too lazy to write to the woman who has done more for you than anyone in the world."  She trademarked the phrases "Mother's Day" and "second Sunday in May" to stop people from using the terms, and was once arrested for disturbing the peace. She spent her inheritance campaigning against the holiday, never married or had children, and died in poverty.

Enjoy the day.