Everyone knows that Mother’s Day is celebrated on the second Sunday in May, but did you also know …?
• The modern Mother’s Day holiday in the United States was founded by Anna Jarvis, a Philadelphia activist.
• The most popular flower given on Mother’s Day is the carnation.
• An average American buys 2.8 Mother’s Day cards.
• On each Mother’s Day, an astonishing 122 million phone calls are made worldwide.
• One of the earliest Mother’s Day celebrations was in Ancient Greece to honor Rhea, the goddess of fertility, motherhood and generation.
• According to a survey by the National Restaurant Association, upward of 48% of people make plans to go to a restaurant for Mother’s Day.
• President Woodrow Wilson signed Mother’s Day into law in 1914.
