Mother's Day falls on the second Sunday in May.

We typically celebrate Mother's Day by giving mom a nice Mother's Day gift (hopefully a wine gift basket) and a heart felt thank you for all she has done. But where did this holiday come from? There must be some reasoning behind it, right?

The history of Mother's Day is centuries old. It goes back to the times of ancient Greeks, who held festivities to honor the mother of the gods.

Early Christians celebrated the Mother's Festival on the fourth Sunday of Lent in order to honor Mary, the mother of Christ.

Over time a religious order stretched the holiday to include all mothers, and it was called the Mothering Sunday. Later on, English colonists who settled in America ended up discontinuing the tradition of Mothering Sunday because of the lack of time.

In 1907, Anna M. Jarvis, a Philadelphia school teacher, began a movement to declare a national Mother's Day holiday in honor of her mother, Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis. She got the help of hundreds of legislators and prominent businessmen to create a special day to honor moms everywhere.

The first Mother's Day observance was a church service honoring Anna's mother. Anna handed out the first Mother's Day gifts - her mother's favorite flower, the white carnation. The flower represents sweetness, patience, and purity.

In 1914 Anna's dream finally came true when President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the second Sunday in May to be a national holiday to honor all mothers.

The Mother's Day holiday became more and more popular as time progressed, and with it the tradition of giving Mothers Day gifts grew. The holiday flourished in the United States and is also celebrated in other countries - some one the same exact day.

If your mom loves wine, then get her a present she will really love - a Mother's Day wine basket, a few bottles of personalized Mothers Day wine, or a gift membership to our monthly wine club.