General Chat

I went into a card shop this week and couldn't see any Mothering Sunday cards!! Any luck in your neck of the woods?

Our local pound shop had a selection lol Elaine x

I will be checking the shops this week. If you ask in some of them, they point over to the Mother's Day cards and say ' Yes, over there' and can't understand that you are asking for something with different wording. I do manage to find some to choose between. Clinton Cards usually have some or any shops linked to, or in a Christian bookshop.

your pound shop had quite a selection Elaine I was suprised. That shop called 'The Range' down the botom of Harlow had a few bits too.

nothing like a home made card, it's the TIME put into making one that is the present

Always Mothering Sunday in our house,always will be.Cards are sometimes home made.Mum has never thrown any of them away -Rose

we got nice granma card from the 99p store for his mum, I won't call her mum so we compromise and get card from kids!!!!! and i don't buy my mum one on principal!!!!!

In most of Europe, Mothers' Day is celebrated in May (I think). Mothering Sunday is the name traditionally given to the 3rd (or 4th?) Sunday in Lent.

Just Googled and found.... Mothering Sunday is the fourth Sunday of Lent. Although it's often called 'Mothers Day' it has no connection with the American festival of that name. Traditionally, it was a day when children, mainly daughters, who had gone to work as domestic servants were given a day off to visit their mother and family. Today it is a day when children give presents, flowers, and home made cards to their mothers. History of Mothering Sunday Most Sundays in the year churchgoers in England worship at their nearest parish or 'daughter church'. Centuries ago it was considered important for people to return to their home or 'mother' church once a year. So each year in the middle of Lent, everyone would visit their 'mother' church, or the main church or Cathedral of the area. Inevitably the return to the 'mother' church became an occasion for family reunions when children who were working away returned home. (It was quite common in those days for children to leave home for work once they were ten years old.) And most historians think that it was the return to the 'Mother' church which led to the tradition of children, particularly those working as domestic servants, or as apprentices, being given the day off to visit their mother and family. As they walked along the country lanes, children would pick wild flowers or violets to take to church or give to their mother as a small gift.

there's loads round here John

A nice write up about mothering sunday tradition, plus a recipe for simnel cake here: www*.*chippingnorton*.*net/Features/simnel%20cake*.*htm nell

Incidentally it's not Mothers day in the USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia until 8th May

I always try to get a Mothering Sunday card- last year just could not find one and so had to give in and get a Mother's day- it is a shame though, another traditiion being Americanised.