Inspired from the British “Mothering Sunday”, Mother’s Day is the celebration of all moms in the United States. A gift is the simplest way to show appreciation and support.

A number of ancient cultures paid tribute to mothers as goddesses, including the ancient Greeks, who celebrated Rhea, the mother of all gods. The ancient Romans also honored their mother goddess, Cybele, in a notoriously rowdy springtime celebration and the Celtic Pagans marked the coming of spring with a fertility celebration linking their goddess Brigid together with the first milk of the ewes.

The International Mother’s Day Shrine incorporated on May 15, 1972 and is a 501(c) 3 non profit organization dedicated to the preservation of Motherhood.

The modern Mother’s Day, as most of the western world knows it, started out as a call for peace and disarmament in the United States in 1870. The proclamation for this Mother’s Day was first made by Julia Ward Howe, who urged for the annual observance in the United States of what was called then as the Mother’s Day for Peace. During that time, the American Civil War has just ended. Julia Howe’s proclamation was a reaction to the hardships the war has brought to the mothers who were left behind. Read more about the origins of Mother’s Day here.