Mother’s Day, What is it all about?

What is Mother’s Day, and what is it all about?

Mothering Sunday or Mother’s Day emerged from a custom of mother worship in ancient Greece, which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of Greek gods.

The ancient Romans also had another holiday, Matronalia, that was dedicated to Juno, though mothers were usually given gifts on this day. We have a great range of gifts for you to choose from this Mothers Day:

Mother’s Day Gift Basket

Mother’s Day Gift Hamper

Tea Time Treats Gift Box

In Europe and the UK there were several long standing traditions where a specific Sunday was set aside to honor motherhood and mothers such as Mothering Sunday. Mothering Sunday celebrations are part of the liturgical calendar in several Christian denominations, including Anglicans, and in the Catholic calendar is marked as Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent to honour the Virgin Mary and the “mother church”. Traditionally the day was marked by the giving of token gifts and the relinquishing of certain traditionally female tasks such as cooking and cleaning to other members of the family as a gesture of appreciation.

The one thing that we all know about Mother’s Day is that we give a gift to show how much we care.

At First4Hampers, our Mother’s Day range is a fantastic way to show how much we care by giving a special gift sure to please on 14th March.