The US Mother's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday in May. This is a fixed date and does not change from year to year like Mothering Sunday does in England. However, many countries including Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia, and Belgium which also celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday of May.

The history of paying tributes to mother on Mother's Day date back to the annual spring festival the Greeks dedicated to Rhea, the mother of many deities, and to the offerings ancient Romans made to their Great Mother of Gods, Cybele. Christians celebrated a Mother's Day of sorts during a festival on the fourth Sunday in Lent in honor of Mary, Mother of Christ. Later, in England the holiday was expanded to include all mothers. It was then called Mothering Sunday.

In the United States Mother's Day was unofficially celebrate first in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe as a day dedicated to peace. In 1907 Ana Jarvis, from Philadelphia, started a campaign to declare a national Mother's Day. Ms. Jarvis then persuaded her mother's church in Grafton, West Virginia to celebrate Mother's Day on the 2nd Sunday of May, the second death anniversary of her mother. By the next year Mother's Day was also celebrated in Philadelphia.

Ms. Jarvis and her supporters continued drive by to writing to ministers, business community and politicians in their quest to establish a national Mother's Day. By 1911 all states started celebrating Mother's Day. However, it was in 1914, when President Woodrow Wilson made the official announcement proclaiming Mother's Day as a national holiday that was to be held each year on the 2nd Sunday of May.

- Give a unique gift to your mother. Do not forget to attach a personalized card alongwith it.

- Let your mother sleep late om Mother's Day morning. Serve breakfast to her in bed itself.

- Keep her off from daily household activities on this day.

- Prepare a special dinner (or take her out!) and eat together alongwith members of the family.