“Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.”
–Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Mothers are Pappagallo’s favorite people. Along with grandmothers, sisters, aunts, daughters and best friends. They are the special women in our lives that love us unconditionally. They are the reason you are a dog person or a cat person (or both). They helped make you who you are today.
Mother’s Day originally began as a day to honor one woman. After her mother died in May 1905, Anna Reeves Jarvis wanted a day to honor her and other moms. Jarvis’ idea became a national holiday when President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill declaring Mother’s Day to be celebrated each second Sunday in May.
Jarvis is also credited with making the white carnation the official Mother’s Day flower. She sent 500 white carnations in her mother’s honor to Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church for the first Mother’s Day in 1908. Years later, in an interview with National Geo, Jarvis compared that flower to a mother’s love – “The carnation does not drop its petals, but hugs them to its heart as it dies, and so, too, mothers hug their children to their hearts, their mother love never dying.”
Pappagallo honors and thanks all moms. Join us this May 11th in celebrating all “the Moms” in your life.
-by Nicki Smith
About the Author: Nicki Smith has been in the fashion industry for over 40 years. She is the owner of and buyer for Pappagallo, located at 2020 Scottsville Road in Bowling Green (The Pines Shopping Center, next to Chico’s).
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