Call me curmudgeonly if you like, but I've never observed Mother's Day. My mother didn't like it, and had an innate disdain for the cooption and commecialisation of religious festivals. The original term was "Mothering Sunday", when Christians made a pilgrimage to the mother church where they had been baptised.

As one would expect, the current bastardisation came out of America where anything and everything becomes a land grab. We have Coca Cola to thank for Father Christmas being dressed always in red, for instance.

That said, in its current interpretation it's clearly a special day for many and far be it from me to go against it.