Mother's Day

Hey guys. Today Im going would like to write about the culture. Here in Brazil we celebrate the Mother´s Day at on the second Sunday in May. Is it celebrated in your country at on the same day as well ? How do you celebrate it? Here It is very common to spend the day with our mothers here. At least we have lunch with her and bring her roses, (and in some cases) or even really expensive gifts.

In Taiwan, we celebrate Mother's Day on the same day as you do. We also have a holiday without leave on March 8th in honor of the women. In addition to what you mentioned to express gratitude to mothers, each of our children probably has experienced what a pregnant mother's feelings are by putting a balloon inside the top as a fake baby during shool time on the special day.

Of course, writing a card, preparing her breakfast personally, and serving her a cup of tea respectfully, just to name a few are the other ways to go. What sets Taiwan apart from Brazil is that we have 'dinner' with our mothers or even grandmothers together and give 'carnations' to them, not roses.

This year, I received a card and flower made by my son in his art class at school. But the flower is not a carnation as the past years, it's a 'day lily', a sympol of the mother's flower in Chinese culture he told me about. How amazing! I never knew that.

Mother´s day

Hey guys today I´m going to write about culture. Here in Brazil we celebrate the mother´s day at on the second Sunday of May, is it celebrated in your country at on the same day as well ? How do you celebrate it? Here it is very common to spend the day with the one's mother, at least we have lunch with her, bring her roses and in some cases really expensive gifts.

Hi Thiago!

Sometimes we hear about Mother's Day from TV or some friends (or read about it on the internet), then we can call our mothers and congratulate her. But international Mother's Day is like Day of kisses for us - it exists somewhere, but not in Russia.

But don't get me wrong - we do have a special day when we can congratulate our mothers and express our love! It is the 8th of March, International Women's Day. It is not celebrated everywhere, I know, but it's big in Russia. Actually all women are congratulated, not just mothers, but as you can understand mother and grandmother are big part of the holiday. The most typical present is flowers - any flowers, but preferably some spring-like as it is beginning of the spring.

Wives/girlfriends are typically more demanding and expect something more than just flowers. It really depends on the budget what other presents can be, and not 100% of men give their women even some flowers - some of men simple ignore it. But generally it is a big holiday in Russia and if a man doesn't congratulate his woman and give her at least flowers, she is likely to get mad at him :P