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Featured Greetings
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Mother's Day Craft ProjectsMother's Day Card
There’s nothing more unique than a fingerprint and nothing more special
than preserving a child’s tiny fingers and hands for posterity. Mom
will love and cherish these adorable cards made by little hands.
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Mother's Day Recipes
A recipe so good any mom will love it!
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Mothers Day Video Greetings
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Mothers Day History
People in many ancient cultures celebrated holidays honoring motherhood, personified as a goddess.
Ancient Greeks celebrated a holiday in honor of Rhea, the mother of the gods.
Ancient Romans celebrated a holiday in honor of Cybele, a mother goddess. The celebrations were notorious enough that followers of Cybele were banished from Rome.
In the British Isles and Celtic Europe, the goddess Brigid, and later her successor St. Brigid, were honored with a spring Mother's Day, connected with the first milk of the ewes.
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Mothers Day Trivia
Many of the sweaters worn by Mr. Rogers on the popular television show, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, were actually knitted by his real mother.***Hoyt Axton wrote Three Dog Night's "Joy To The World." His mother, Mae Axton wrote "Heartbreak Hotel" for Elvis Presley.
***A female oyster over her lifetime may produce over 100 million young.***In the vast majority of the world's languages, the word for "mother" begins with the letter M.