19 Surprising Facts You Never Knew About Mother’s Day

It’s not just a “Hallmark Holiday”

Hallmark produced its first Mother’s Day card in the early 1920s, but Mother’s Day had already been proclaimed a national holiday six years earlier in 1914, when President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation naming the second Sunday of May as a day for “public expression of our love and reverence for the mothers of our country.” Today cards have become almost a given on Mother’s Day. To make yours special, consider adding one of these great Mother’s Day quotes.