You kind of have to. In fairness, they are awesome.

Mother’s Day is probably less about buying than other holidays with people doing things for Mom that she usually does for the whole family. Children making cards and gifts rather than buying. Today I got a wonderful gift from my son that he made in school.

Now that I have a child of my own I appreciate my mother so much more. We didn’t always see eye to eye, in fact I was a nightmare teen but now that I’m getting older and so is she I take every opportunity I can to let her know how great she is!

My mother Nuala O’Hagan raised 9 of us and recently took on my niece. She is a brilliant Mother and we all love her to bits. Happy Mothers Day Mam !

Not with mam today so we celebrated Friday. My mother is amazing so she deserves to be celebrated!! Card and a small gift and out for dinner

Emma, your right, you only truly appreciate your mother (and your father), when u become a parent yourself, all the worry and strife they go through…and then it’s your turn!! Personally i wouldn’t swap being a parent for anything, and I’m having my mum (87) up for lunch (as usual on a Sunday), she still worries about us even though we’re middle aged!!!

My mother always called this day “Mothering Sunday”. She thought Mother’s Day was invented for commercial reasons by Greeting Card Companies.

South African TV had an interview with the country’s oldest citizen, a woman aged 112. They asked her if she had ever stopped worrying about her children. She replied, “Well, I always used to worry about them, but now they’re all in very nice nursing homes!”. There’s a thought for Mother’s Day – even for the pedants who insist on “Mothering Sunday”. This relates to the days when domestic servants were permitted one Sunday per year to attend services in the church wherever they grew up, their “mother church”. I think I prefer Hallmark making a few bob if it means moving on from this concept!

Do you know what the difference is between mothers day and fathers day?

About €150

Why celebrate mothers on one particular date which is decided by commercial interests, why not on any other of the 364 days, which you decide yourself.

Having to depend on social and commercial pressure or imagining that what happens on an invented occasion is insecure and irrational. The calendar has not been packed with such events for “thousands of years”. There have always been occasions that marked the natural seasons from a time when humans had little understanding of the earth. Then as now a few used the ignorance of the many to manipulate them. If you need something like mothers day to feel appreciated then you must be failing for the rest of the year. Mothers Day as marketed in Ireland these days is an American invention (1900’s) that hasn’t been around very long. The St. Patrick’s day parade in Dublin was invented by the Protestant Knights of St. Patrick (17 March 1783) to dissipate the power of the Protestant Volunteers. Christmas is the illusion that a Jewish zombie popped into existence 2000 thousand years ago.

The calendar has turned into an economic drain that sucks money out of peoples pockets whether they can afford it or not. Most of the occasions are invented and based on lies and myths that server a purpose whether it’s herd control or profit.

Its called Mothering Sunday

MothersDayChristmasDayBirthdays: the calendar has become an economic treadmill that people should just collectively opt out of. Their is nothing auspicious about the arbitrary date of anyone’s birth. No one of any note was born on the 25th of December 2000 years ago. If you have to wait for a single commercialised date to be pressurised into buying some overpriced item when you really don’t want to you’re just following the herd. A parent who demands tribute is probably not that great a parent in the first place.