Mother’s Day is a special holiday for everyone that celebrates. It’s the day where hard working and caring mothers finally get recognized for all the work they put into their kids and their family. We show this appreciation by making the day about them, buying them gifts and celebrating what they did.  

Mother’s Day became an official US holiday when is it was signed into law May 8, 1914 by President Wilson, who issued it to be the second Sunday in May every year. The only reason this law came about was because of the endless campaigning by Anna Jarvis. Anna Jarvis never had kids of her own and never married but she was devoted  to her mother following hern death in 1905 made it her lifes to establish a national holiday to honor her. 

The first celebration was organized in May 1908 at Andrews medicine Easter couple Church in Grafton, West Virginia, where her mother taught Sunday School, so being there even more honored her mother. It took over 5 years for it to finally become an official holiday due to her relentless work towards that goal. Anna Jarvis’s mother and Reeves sharvis was also a civil war activist and was a divided mother and social activist who organized Mother’s Day work clubs in West Virginia to improve say any conditions, lower infant mortality and provide medicine to six families. Anna Jarvis followed in her mother’s footsteps and was one of her biggest inspirations.

Anna Jarvis time came to end to the causes of dementia at age 84 on November 24, 1948 in the sanction in West Chester, Pennsylvania, leaving an unknown legacy that lives on to this day this mother’s day. Her hard work towards woman activism should make more people know about her story and what she fought for.

Now we celebrate Mother’s Day every year due to Anna Jarvis’ relentless hard work, so that we can be able to have that day and appreciate the mothers all around the world that step up  and do one of the hardest things a person can do and raise a child. They should get way more than a day but due to Anna’s Jarvis they at least get a day for their celebrations.