It's now the month of May and that means love for your mom is in the air.

Countries around the world celebrate mothers and when you start digging into the traditions,

it's really interesting how different cultures choose to honor motherhood and how elaborate some of these celebrations can be.

Like Ethiopia, they celebrate their moms for three days straight with lamb feast singing and dancing in a festival.

Families travel home to reunite after the rainy season, sons bring ingredients, daughters prepare the meals, and everything centers around honoring mothers.

Mothers and daughters even slather their faces in chest with butter, which might

sound odd, but is actually a tradition tied to nourishment, care, and beauty, things traditionally

associated with the roles of mothers in the home. India places a strong cultural emphasis on motherhood.

They celebrate the return of the Divine Mother Goddess Dergia with a 10-day

festival where everyone decorates their home, shares gifts, and feasts. The festival is all about

celebrating reunions, children and mothers, husbands and wives, and the idea of a mother as both

a creator and a protector, someone who nurtures life but will also destroy

anything that threatens it. Peru is right behind with a week-long celebration for their mothers.

Museums and art galleries let moms in for free, and if your mom has passed, you still celebrate

her by decorating her grave with flowers and balloons.

Britain has celebrated mothers for centuries with a festival called Mothering Sunday,

where people return to their mother church on the fourth Sunday of Lent and celebrate both the Virgin Mary and their own mothers.

Families share a roast lamb feast and all the moms are declared the queen of the feast. Most of the world associates carnations with Mother's Day, but in Britain, children traditionally pick wild violets to bring home.

In the United States, a woman named Anna Jarvis lobbied to have a holiday officially declared to celebrate mothers.

She started the campaign in memory of her own mom, a Civil War era activist.

Anna handed out 500 white carnations at her mom's memorial service, which is how the flower became associated with Mother's Day.

In 1914, Woodrow Wilson made it official.

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