Mothering Sunday

2 Mar 2008 – Mothering Sunday in the UK is the equivalent of Mothers’ Day in other countries.  Well, mothers definately deserved more than one day ‘recognition’. Friday after school, Yi Hong & Yi Xuen came home with some lovely Daffodil, cards and gifts. Yi Xuen made a lovely heart shape cookies for me.  It was so yummy and end up all in her tummy.  On Sunday, Yi Hong prepared breakfast and let me have it in bed. Wow! What a lovely day off for mummy.

 ‘Mothering Sunday has been celebrated in the UK on the fourth Sunday in Lent (The forty days before Easter, but not counting Sundays).  No one is absolutely certain exactly how the idea of Mothering Sunday began. About four hundred years ago, people who lived in little villages made a point of going not to their local church but to the neares big church. To what was called the Mother Church. People who visit their mother church would say they had gone ‘a mothering’. Young English girls and boys ‘in service’ were only allowed one day to visit their family each year.  This was usually Mothering Sunday. Often the housekeeper or cook would allow the maids to bake a cake to take home for their mother.’