
WHY MOTHER'S DAY COMES TWICE IN A YEAR...... Ever wondered why mother's day is celebrated twice in a year???? I think coa press might have an answer for you today.. The mother's day celebration is both done in the U.K and in the U.S differently... In the U.K The day is always on the fourth Sunday of Lent , exactly three weeks before Easter Sunday and usually in the second half of March or early April. The day is a celebration of mothers and the maternal bond and traditionally children give flowers, presents and cards to their mothers, and other maternal figures such as grandmothers, stepmothers and mothers-in-law. When did Mothering Sunday begin? The day has long been associated with mothers and family. For centuries it was custom for people to return home to their ‘mother’ church on Laetare Sunday – the middle of Lent. Those who did so were said to have gone ‘a- mothering’. In the UNITED STATES ...