Mother's Day is fast approaching us once again. Here in Britain we celebrate it in March. This year it is Sunday March 15th.

Our Mother's Day is very different to the American's version of the same day.

The holiday has very old roots established sometime the the medieval period and for the deeply Christian people of the time, it meant that those that worked were given permission to return home to visit family and attend their "mother church". Mother's Day is always on a Sunday and many Christians still visit church for the special service. In fact Mother's Day is on the fourth day of Lent, causing it's date to vary each year because of Easter's varying date. In America Mother's Day is the second Sunday in May.

Lent traditions. Lent is a time of fasting or giving up treats, but the rules for this are often relaxed for the celebration of family reunions were daughters gave posies of freshly picked spring flowers and fresh baked cakes like Simnel cakes.

Simnel cakes are now more often associated with Easter not Mother's Day.

Originally it was just called Mothering Sunday but during World War 2 the name was changed when American soldiers took the celebration home with them and added the commercial aspects to it.

Of course the biggest difference I suppose would lie in the fact that Americans spell it mom and we Brits spell it mum. When we create our designs we have to be careful about this. We have to take spelling into account for the two respective countries. Our website is for the Brits and has British spelling for our products. We also sell on eBay and those are made especially for our American customers. It is the only one we have to be careful about. Other family members are still the same with the same spellings. Father's Day and dad is never a problem.

Here some of our Mother's Day gifts as a sample of what we have.