Mother’s Day – also called Mothering Sunday – takes place this weekend (Sunday, March 10) here in the UK – we hope you haven’t forgotten!
Hopefully, you’ve already prepared a heartfelt card or gift, a bouquet of flowers, perhaps something handmade, something delicious or even something luxurious.
You may also want to send a sweet poem, greeting or quote by phone, text or social media this morning – whether you’re meeting up later or are unable to get together in person.
Make your mum, or another maternal figure in your life, feel special with one of these thoughtful Mother’s Day messages…
Mother’s Day greetings for cards
Wishing you a calm and relaxing Mother’s Day, because you deserve it.
Thank you for everything you do for me, every act of love and kindness you’ve ever shown me.
To the best mum in the world, wishing you a very happy Mother’s Day.
Thank you for being such a positive inspiration and influence on my life. I love you.
Mum, I wish we could be together this Mother’s Day. Miss you and can’t wait to celebrate with you soon. Hope you have a wonderful day.
I smile because I’m your child, I laugh because there’s nothing you can do about it!
Thanks for always looking after me and looking out for me. You’re the best.
Happy Mother’s Day to the most wonderful mum anyone could ever ask for.
Poems for Mother’s Day
To My Mother by Christina Rossetti
‘To-day’s your natal day;
Sweet flowers I bring:
Mother, accept, I pray
My offering.
And may you happy live,
And long us bless;
Receiving as you give
Great happiness.’
Home by Carl Sandburg
‘Here is a thing my heart wishes the world had more of:
I heard it in the air of one night when I listened
To a mother singing softly to a child restless and angry
in the darkness.’
Thank God For Our Mothers by Julia Hunt
‘If life were without water, where would we be?
If life were without mothers,
There would be no you or me.
We all need to take hold, of how precious life really is, and not take for granted the gift of love and the ability to give.
Thank you to God for creating us all
For giving us our mothers
So we can stand proud and tall.
Humans are no accident, no mistake or error
We sometimes live our lives in fear of this,
Even to the point of terror.
But when the truth is told, and recognised by all, God does not create rubbish.
He knew what he was doing when he created me and you, but the best gift of all, is giving us loving, caring Mothers who love us unconditionally through and through.
None of us are perfect, that includes ourselves and family.
Hold onto how precious we are and thank God for our mothers.
Amen.’
(via 100 Best Poems)
To My Mother by Edgar Allan Poe (Excerpt)
‘Because I feel that, in the Heavens above,
The angels, whispering to one another,
Can find, among their burning terms of love,
None so devotional as that of “Mother,”
Therefore by that dear name I long have called you—
You who are more than mother unto me.’
Mother by Lola Ridge (Excerpt)
‘Your love was like moonlight
turning harsh things to beauty,
so that little wry souls
reflecting each other obliquely
as in cracked mirrors . . .
beheld in your luminous spirit
their own reflection,
transfigured as in a shining stream,
and loved you for what they are not.’
Quotes for Mother’s Day
‘A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, “wheremotheris”.’ – Keith L. Brooks
‘Biology is the least of what makes someone amother.’ – Oprah Winfrey
‘All I am I owe to my mother.’ – George Washington
‘I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.’ – Abraham Lincoln
‘Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.’ – Susan Gale
‘Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.’ – Lady Gaga
‘A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.’ – Irish Proverb
‘A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.’ —Tenneva Jordan
‘Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.’ – Anon
‘A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.’ —Dorothy Canfield Fisher
‘A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.’ – Diana, Princess of Wales
‘To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colours of a rainbow.’ – Maya Angelou
‘We are born of love. Love is our mother.’ – Rumi
‘Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.’ – George Eliot
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