I know it’s a lot to take in all at once, so please try to contain your excitement. Today’s Mothers Day Part One post contains not one, but TWO, “This Day In History” segments. And tomorrow’s Mothers Day Part Two? Well, if this one strikes you as snarky, THAT one will really knock yer socks off. So to speak.
On this day in history, May 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson first declared the second Sunday in May to be a holiday in celebration of the nation’s mothers. Everyone’s got one and as a group they are largely underappreciated. So, no surprise there: Good move for Woodrow. Great move for florists.
The second “This Day in History,” May 9, 1960, bears a bit more explanation. That was the day the FDA approved the G.D. Searle Company’s application for Enovid-10, more commonly known as “The Pill.” Obviously somebody over at the FDA had a wry sense of humor in deciding to approve this particular pharmaceutical on this particular day this close to Mothers Day. Anyway: Bravo, FDA.
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On a more personal note – and a bit closer to home – FDA approval for Enovid-10 came two years too late for my mom. As the below photo illustrates, I was a change-of-life baby (“oops!”). And I didn’t even have the good grace to come as a girl, which might have redeemed the situation a bit for her in a house full of boys. Sorry mom!
I know, I know, we all must try to contain our excitement.
Hey, we’re trying here!
!OOPS … and well done Dan! You were wonderfully protected nurtured by three older brothers … yet able to grow up as a “single youngster” with the same caring and loving parents they all had years earlier. In many respects, you had the best of both climates. God’s blessings continues for your mother and my mothers too. And God continues to bless your great wife and mother of your wonderful son and beautiful daughters!