Hey guys this is Sarah and

And, welcome back preview lines podcast.

Whitney it's good to be back because we've been having to do some zoom because of life and

Life be life and my friends.

It's just better though I always love it when we're in person. So in today's I would say it's a special one in some ways but a hard one.

And the title is why Mother's Day may be really hard.

There's so many, I mean it's a lot to unpack.

It is multifaceted.

I think, you know, so often we do think of Mother's Day is it's a happy day we get to bring mom

breakfast in bed or get her favorite flowers you know at least that's how it was for me

growing up like we would make construction paper cards for our mom and it was always a happy thing.

Yeah. But now as an adult after having gone through infertility, working with a lot of moms who have experienced

loss and infertility, maybe they had a strange relationship with their mom or their mom has died.

Different things of that nature, Mother's Day is not always this bright sunshine and rainbow's day that it is kind of promoted to be. Sunshine and so I you know I love to deep dive and so I was like why did mother stay even oh you know, I was like why did mother stay even

Oh you went on the deep deep. I got a rabbit hole.

And so what I figured out, so there is, her name was Anna Jarvis,

which interestingly enough, she did not have any children of her own.

Hmm. But her own.

But her own, she really felt that moms and their children should have an intimate celebration.

So the key here is intimate.

In 1914, President Wilson actually signed it in a bill that said that the second Sunday

in May is Mother's Day.

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