What we do with our time is completely up to us. We can spend our days worthlessly or wisely in many ways.

I like the thought that it cannot be contained, only the memories caught within that time can be!

Our lives are filled with various memories of love, joy, pain, sorrow, anger and so many other emotions. Most people like to visit family, friends and loved ones at holidays and during special events to create good moments. I was never big on family gatherings and rather avoided them.

Important time is what we use for the things that are of high importance for our lives, like earning a living, filling the role as a parent and partner, paying bills, for our entertainment, education and maintaining a healthy lifestyle maybe. "Prioritising these tasks will add value to our lives, and leave us with a feeling of fulfillment at day’s end." (Henrik Erberg)

Is Mothers Day Important?

Most of you will say "Of course it is" and for my whole life I felt the same, tried to be a good daughter, knowing it makes my Mom so happy to "value" her with my calls, trying to spend more time with her, even though I lived abroad for many years.

Typical Mom, I keep those gifts from my daughter Tahnee :)

I would not dare to forget that date but it felt more like a pressure, therefore I really don't want my daughter to feel any kind of obligation for May14th. I will keep her previous gifts when she was a child, anyways.

I was not always honest because there were those feelings of painful disagreements and I stored lots of anger towards my Mutti but time and years away healed wounds.

Practising forgiveness helped me to unconditionally love her. I do! She knows it more than ever.

We found peace with each other. I finally took time off my life, to take care off her as long as she needs me for her remaining few years.

My first article on Steemit :) Is Motherhood THE ULTIMATE of becoming a more Powerful and “Beautiful” Woman?

This sounds like mine:)

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Mother's Day will be marked on Sunday, May 14,2017

I was kind of upset when I woke up this morning, finding a reminder on my calendar for May 14th, "Mothers Day" in Europe and America! Every mother will expect their children to spend a very special time with them. Some children will know, its the day where you have to prepare presents, poems, drawings and flowers to honour your Mom's.

I am wondering what you all planned for such chosen Sunday. Who chose that date anyways?

I find it a truly annoying because I said it many times before, that mothers (some) deserve the respect......ALWAYS!

All platforms will be filled with pictures again. I also used to do these kind of posts but I'm over it. Sorry, if I sound rude but I have never been into celebrating any kind of holidays, I hate weddings, funerals and religious holidays. Am I weird?

This time I do not expect my daughter to spend her day with me, in case she feels something else is more important to do, nor will I spend the day with my mother.

Its our DAY OFF!

There will be many other days we can choose to be together, sharing our presence, love and appreciation for each other, when WE feel like.........All about "THE RIGHT TIME".

Origins of Mothers Day

There is evidence that the original idea was a day for mothers, plural, not a day for one's own mother on which mothers would get together for a day of service, to help out other mothers who were less fortunate.

I found this article and video at time.com, The sad origins of Mothers Day written by Olivia B. Waxman

Perhaps it's appropriate that the day on which Americans celebrate mothers has an odd set of parents: President Woodrow Wilson is usually seen as the "father" of Mother's Day — for signing a proclamation on May 9, 1914, declaring the second Sunday of May "a public expression of our love and reverence for the mothers of our country" — while copywriter Anna Jarvis is usually seen as the "mother" of Mother's Day, for creating the movement that led to the proclamation. It was on May 10, 1908, that Jarvis sent 500 white carnations to Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in her hometown of Grafton, W.Va., in honor of her late mother Ann. That date, on which she also held a celebration in Philadelphia, where she lived at the time, is considered to be America's first Mother's Day celebration. But Jarvis wasn't the only person to try to start a holiday dedicated to mothers. One notable person who might also have a claim to that fame: Jarvis' own mother, had come up with such an idea in the mid-19th century. Her vision for Mother's Day, however, looked very different from the gift-centric holiday of modern times. - Source at time / The History and Origins of Mothers Day

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Happy Mothers Day!

Don't forget to mail your card, buy the flowers, prepare the dinner, make a brunch reservation in the favourite restaurant and honour OUR Mothers in your own way.