After the Civil War, the writer Julia Ward Howe suggested a Mother's Day to recognize peace and to protest war. She organized annual events in Boston to honor mothers. But despite her work and her moving Mother's Day proclamation, nothing official ever came of her efforts
MJ Brewer
@Mommas_Jungle · 3:41
Nobody knows how to cook and it's Mother's Day, so they can't hound her for it. But the gifts, I think because when kids get birthday gifts, we know generally it's the mom that bought it generally, not always