Dear Annie: There’s more to Mother’s Day than flowers and gifts

Dear Annie: Mother’s Day is a day of celebration, reflection, gratitude and sometimes quiet ache

DEAR READERS: Mother’s Day arrives each year draped in flowers, breakfast trays and hand-drawn cards, but beneath the surface it carries so much more. It is a day of celebration, yes, but also one of reflection, gratitude and sometimes quiet ache.

Dear Annie: There’s more to Mother’s Day than flowers and gifts

Dear Readers: Mother’s Day arrives each year draped in flowers, breakfast trays and hand-drawn cards, but beneath the surface it carries so much more. It is a day of celebration, yes, but also one of reflection, gratitude and sometimes quiet ache.

Dear Annie: Mother’s Day is about more than flowers and gifts

Dear Readers: Mother’s Day arrives each year draped in flowers, breakfast trays and hand-drawn cards, but beneath the surface it carries so much more. It is a day of celebration, yes, but also one of reflection, gratitude and sometimes quiet ache.

On Friday there were tributes, cards and tender messages from the children for Mom in the school units of Ecuador. This Sunday, which commemorates Mother's Day, there will be no lack of flowers, chocolates, gifts and shared meals with the family.

Mother’s Day Should Be a Bigger Deal — The Anderson Observer

Greg Wilson/Anderson Observer“No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is a wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.” – Erma BombeckIt’s Mother’s Day, a time to honor our mothers who are still with us or remember the ones who have gone on before us. For some of us, this is good, but not so much for others. Mother’s Day is one of thos…

The many faces of motherhood

Dear Readers: Mother’s Day arrives each year draped in flowers, breakfast trays and hand-drawn cards, but beneath the surface it carries so much more. It is a day of celebration, yes, but also one of reflection, gratitude and sometimes quiet…