When Mother's day comes around, we can all be a bit inclined to forget about it. It comes and goes and perhaps we give a card to our mothers or give them a quick phone call, but it really should be given much more importance. Granted, keeping up with Mother's day can be slightly hard, as it actually falls on very different days all over the world. So, if you and your mother live in different countries, which Mother's day should you celebrate? In reality, it doesn't matter, so long as you celebrate it.

The origin of Mother's day is unclear. Some think that it goes back to an Ancient Greek custom of dedicating a festival to Cybele, a deification of the Earth Mother, a fertility Goddess. It may also have been the original creation of the Romans who celebrated a holiday called Matronalia which was dedicated to the Roman Goddess of Marriage, Juno. On this day, mothers were given gifts, though the holiday wasn't directly dedicated to them. Wherever the holiday came from, it is here to stay, and so it should be.

As I said, Mother's day falls on different days in different countries, so it can be hard to keep up with. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the day is celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent, which is three weeks before Easter Sunday. This means that it will fall between March 1^st and April 4^th. In the United States, Mother's day falls later on in the year, though not by a whole lot, falling as it does on the second Sunday of May. The United States celebration of Mother's day was inspired by the British and was imported to the States by a Julia Ward Howe after the American Civil War. It had quite a noble purpose, as she intended it to be a call for women to unite against war. Mother's day is also celebrated in many other countries such as Norway (on the second Sunday in February), Slovenia (on March 25^th), Mexico (on May 10^th) and Russia (on the last of Sunday of November), to name but a few.

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