Book Board Chat

Greetings from Penn’s Woods where I seriously doubt that my sons called their grandmother yesterday and that is fine with me and I know with her. On Mother’s Day they do call and send flowers to their grandmother and they also call her for New York and California to chat now and then. And of course when they are home they visit her. They call and send flowers for her birthday and honor her in many ways. My MIL is funny about the whole ”Mother’s Day” holiday anyway. She has said that it is nothing more than a made-up holiday for Hallmark to sell cards! LOL She is not big on birthdays anymore either! I saw a reference to the day recently but wasn't sometime I was going to remind the sons that they should call. Better they just call when they feel like it than out of some sense of obligation to do so. Their grandmother would be incredulous there was even such a day.

I always sent cards to my grandparents on Mother’s and Father’s Day. Yeah, I know that technically they are not my parents but that was when grandparents were recognized in the ’old days’ before some made-up holiday came along. I remember standing in the store buying cards for my 2 parents and 3 grandparents and DH's 2 parents and one grandmother and totaling up the cost (money was tight at the time) and then I hit myself on the head and said to myself, "The day will come where you will wish that you were able to buy these cards." And yep, within 7 years I had lost all parents and grandparents and now we are down to just DH's mom.

Wonder if the phone, card and flower industry sees an increase in sales for Grandparents Day. I know Mother’s Day is at the top or near the top of the number of he phone calls made over all other holidays.

Maybe if stores started having sales for Grandparents’ Day, more people would be aware of it! Then you would have some people complaining about how retail took over and turned the sacred holiday into a day of nothing more than being about money, money, money!

How many people called or sent a card or flowers to their children and grandchildren this year? It is a much, much older ’holiday’ than Grandparents Day. In the United States it is on the Second Sunday of June. This year it was June 9, 2013 and next year it will be June 8, 2014 – so don’t forget this forgotten holiday!

”Children’s Day is recognized on various days in many places around the world, to honor children globally. It was first proclaimed by the World Conference for the Well-being of Children in 1925 and then established universally in 1954 to protect an ”appropriate” day.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children’s_Day

”Americans recognize Mother’s Day, Father’s Day… so why not a national Children’s Day? A day that revives, celebrates, and commits to our children and their future. Commitments cards; along with local, state, and national recognition are all part of this day… a day that has deep historical roots in America.”

Children’s Day . . . by giving faith, hope, love, and commitment to our children.

http://www.nationalchildrensday.us/

Jim and David I laughed at both of your grandchildren comments.

David A child’s birthday is very important and it was kind of her to remind you that her’s was coming up! She knew you would feel terrible if you forgot! LOL

Jim I am going to have to remember to check with my oldest brother if he has done his duty on that matter with his 3 young grandchildren-it will be perfect for him with 2 grandsons and 1 granddaughter.

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