Mother’s Day falls on Sunday, May 11 this year, and if you haven’t yet made plans to spoil your mother, now is the time to get in gear. Brunches will be filling up fast, and the florists are preparing to work overtime the week before.
The celebration of these important women in our lives has been going on for many years, but Mother’s Day as we recognize it today started in the early 20th century. Since then, countries all over the world have a special day set aside for them. In the US and Canada, it is always celebrated on the second Sunday in May. In the UK (where “Mothering Sunday” began centuries ago), it is celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent.
Here in the Cayman Islands, we follow the US date, and so it’s May 11 in 2014.