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Mother's Day in Colchester
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If you're looking for Gift Ideas or things to do this Mother's Day, we've put together a guide to Mother's Day in Colchester. History of Mother's Day Different countries celebrate Mother's Day on various days of the year because the day has a number of different origins. In the UK Mother's Day is celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent and exactly three weeks before Easter, this year Mothering Sunday falls on 2nd March. Mothering Sunday originates from the 16th Century Christian practice, when people from smaller villages went to their nearest big church or "mother church", which was often the nearest cathedral. Anyone who visited their mother church would say that they had gone "a mothering". Domestic servants were released by their masters to visit their families on this weekend each year. Today, it's purpose is to celebrate and give thanks to our mothers. Mother's Day Gift Ideas It's always a tough task to decide on the perfect gift for the perfect Mum on Mother's Day. To offer a solution to your problem, here are some special gift ideas for your Mum.
Jewellery Most Mums are fond of Jewellery plus you can choose either some fashion Jewellery which is trendy or something more exclusive depending on your budget. Flowers Flowers are always a wonderful way of expressing your love and gratitute on Mother's Day and a bunch of spring flowers such as Tulips, Freesias, Irises or Lilies are a perfect gift.  Gift Baskets/Hampers If you want to treat your Mum with lots of gifts, why not make up a basket or hamper? You can choose a selection of her favourite treats like chocolates or pamper products like Bubble Bath, Creams or Make Up. Perfume What lady could have too much perfume? A Book If your Mum is fond of reading, a book can make the perfect gift. Try to find out what sort of thing she likes or her favourite author or poet. A magazine subscription can also be a nice idea. Music If your Mum likes to listen to music you may like to consider a CD or MP3 player. Film If your Mum likes watching films but rarely gets the opportunity to do so. Why not pamper her a little and buy her Cinema or Theatre tickets. Home & Garden Maybe your Mum would like something for the Home or Garden, perhaps a picture or a beautiful new plant. Or maybe a Chimenea or Patio Heater ready for sitting outside on a cool Summer evening. Spa Treatment If your Mum is always busy doing things for her family or other people and rarley gets much time for herself, why not treat her to a Facial, Massage or Manicure.  An Experience of a Lifetime If you want to get your Mum something really different, then a gift experience, such as a Hot Air Balloon ride will make an amazing gift. Charity Gifts Use the money you would have spent on a Mother's Day present to help less fortunate mother's and children. A number of charities such as Oxfam have schemes where you can purchase much needed School equipment, water filters, toys, trees, food and much much more and your mum gets a card and/or certificate to confirm your gift. Priceless Gift Ideas There are some gifts that money can't buy. So if you can't afford to spend much or you want to give your Mum a really special treat that she will really appreciate why not cook her dinner, arrange a family picnic or ban her from doing any housework and let her put her feet up so she can relax and enjoy a memorable Mothers Day! Inspirational Mother's Day Quotes 1. If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 2. Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you. Jill Bennett 3. A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. Dorothy Canfield Fisher 4. At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent. Golda Meir 5. Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. Unknown 6. As is the mother, so is her daughter. Ezekiel 16:4 7. Men are what their mothers made them. Ralph Waldo Emerson 8. Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. Harriet Beecher Stowe 9. We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves. Henry Ward Beecher 10. The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. Honore de Balzac, author 11. The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. Henry Ward Beecher, US Congressional clergyman 12. Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me? Nancy Thayer, author 13. By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author 14. Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. Lin Yutang, Chinese writer 15. Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. Zora Neale Hurston, folklorist and writer 16. That best academy, a mother's knee. James Russell Lowell, poet, critic and diplomat 17. Making a decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. Elizabeth Stone 18. Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother. Gregory Nunn 19. A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. Tenneva Jordan 20. Few misfortunes can befall a boy which brings worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother. W. Somerset Maugham 21. The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint. James Fenton 22. No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. Florida Scott-Maxwell 23. Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter. Betty Rollin 24. Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering. Elaine Heffner 25. Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. James Joyce 26. All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health. Germaine Greer 27. Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother's Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill. John Erskine 28. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. Oscar Wilde 29. The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. Rajneesh 30. The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Author Unknown 31. A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. Peter De Vries 32. All mothers are working mothers. Author Unknown 33. The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. Oliver Wendell Holmes 34. Motherhood is priced; Of God, at price no man may dare/To lessen or misunderstand. Helen Hunt Jackson 35. It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. Barbara Kingsolver 36. God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. Jewish proverb |
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