“My Mother” Essay Contest

Congratulations to Lora Drinkard, of Lynchburg VA! She was the winner of the Mother's Day Essay Contest.

Notable Mother’s Day Quotes

• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
  Oprah Winfrey
• Mother is the name of God in the lips and hearts of little children.
  William Makepeace Thackeray
• When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.
  Leon Blum
• Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same; most mothers kiss and scold together.
  Pearl S. Buck
• Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother’s love is not.
  James Joyce
• A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
  Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• Anyone who doesn’t miss the past never had a mother.
  Gregory Nunn

Great Gift Ideas

• Make a reservation for Mom at a luxurious hotel and prepare a care package full of her favorite music, books and food.
• Exercise with Mom by joining her at the gym or by taking a walk together at the park.
• Enroll Mom in a class that she has a passion for at the local community college or arts center.
• Create a book of family memories with photographs and hand-written stories. Read them together as a family.
• Map out a scenic drive to take with Mom. Don’t forget the details: music, snacks and a list of places to stop.
• Plan a day for your busy Mom by taking her on a shopping spree and preparing her a home-cooked meal.
• Make your mom’s bed a nightly refuge with high thread-count sheets, fluffy pillows, a new comforter and scented candles.

Mother’s Day was first observed by Julia Ward Howe in 1872 as a day of peace by holding meetings in Boston.