Mother's Day

I know this post is a little late, but here I go...

My cousin Dustin posted this as his status today on Facebook, "In my opinion Mother's Day is like Valentine's Day, they both deserve a day of recognition. Although, I don't need a day to tell me to treat my mom or girlfriend extra special. I do that 365 days a year, 24 hours a day.".


I was quite happy that I am finding others that feel this way. Why is it that we need a reminder that once a year that we HAVE to treat our mothers to something special. If they don't get something on this day from each of their children, they feel something is wrong. I feel something is wrong if you feel obligated to buy your Mom a piece of junk or flowers just because the calendar says so. This particular day has only really been around a very short time.

Eric and I found it quite ridiculous last night, while getting a few things at Wal-Mart, that at 10pm the lines were jam packed with people who waited last minute to buy something for their mother. Flowers, cards and other misc junk were being purchased so that they could say they at least got "something for Mom".

While I didn't mind getting a few people from Facebook and my neighbors saying "Happy Mother's Day" to me today. It just made it more concrete that it is ingrained into our brains that it is just something that is supposed to be said on this day, whether heartfelt or not.