I GET TO CELEBRATE THE SAME HOLIDAY TWICE IN A YEAR...

  IF YOU KNOW ANY PANAMANIAN or even a crazy (pana-maniac) lol SISTA like myself ... WISH THEM and me A HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TODAY - DECEMBER 8TH....
WOOT WOOT ... I GET TO CELEBRATE TWICE!!!!

.... a little history....

Mother’s Day in Panama

Today is Mother’s Day in Panama. On a lot of holidays that celebrate people you love, you’ll hear people wonder why we only celebrate mothers, fathers, grandparents and our significant other only one day a year – why wouldn’t we celebrate those people every day?

Well, if you visit or have a Panama vacation home, at least you will have a chance to celebrate twice.

In Panama it’s celebrated on December 8, the same day as the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. This date was suggested in 1930 by the wife of Panama’s President Florencio Harmodio Arosemena, and it was passed as Law 69 in the same year.

According to other accounts, the Rotary Club of Panama asked in 1924 that Mother’s Day be celebrated on May 11 to honor mothers, but politician Aníbal D. Ríos changed the proposal so that it would be held on December 8, and he made it into a national holiday.

Some of the best memories about this day was all the activities celebrating mother's and/or mother figures in our live but what I liked best was that we all got together in all the schools and made collections of all sort of layette items ... then we would sort them all out and make these beautiful layette baskets that the Women's Committee would gather and would then distribute to ALL the mothers who had babies born on Mother's Day ...in the public hospitals and health centers and the remaining baskets were distributed to the poor and to those in need ... it was AWESOME... KIND OF LIKE THESE KIDS HERE... 





HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY ALL MOTHERS ON THIS DAY EVERYWHERE ... SHOOT LETS CELEBRATE OUR DAY EVERY DAY I SAY...

Now you wonder why I love love love making bassinets and layette baskets and giving them away in outreach ... I DO NOT SELL! Making these makes me feel for a minute that I am back home ... and that my own mom who taught us this is alive and well ... and on el día de las madres I wish she were here to give her a big hug ... but she is not ... RIP mom ... and I am missing homesick for back home where my family still is... oh hell it makes me feel good to have these memories period! GIVE and it shall be given back in good measure ... YES!!!

At my biggest I loved my crafts....  and today I STILL DO! because I am still me ...

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE VOLUNTEERING AND MAKING THINGS ... and the best part is getting to hold all the babies.... SINCE MINE ARE GROWN ...


AND ON OUR AWESOME OH GROUP SHARE-IT OUR BEAUTIFUL SISTA CHRISTIE S SHOWED US STEP BY STEP HOW TO MAKE A DIAPER CAKE ... SO I HAVE A NEW ITEM TO MAKE AND GIVE ... TO MOTHERS ... HOW AWESOME IS THAT!

MY FIRST DIAPER CAKE MADE BY ME...


AND I WORKED TO MAKE IT BETTER ... WE HAVE GIVEN AWAY SOOOOOOOOOOO MANY OF THESE ... AWESOME AND EASY TO MAKE ...



TODAY I AM A HAPPY MOTHER ... CELEBRATING ME ... TWO MOTHER'S DAY IN A YEAR WOOT WOOT I HAVE ROOTS HERE AND THERE .... AND I SAW PREPS FOR DINNER AND I SAW PREZZIES TOO WITH MY NAME ON IT WOOT ... I WILL PRETEND I DID NOT SEE THOUGH lol..


Thanks for allowing me to share another goofy thread....

FELIZ DIA DE LAS MADRES A TODAS LAS MADRES EN PANAMA!!!!
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL MOM'S IN PANAMA!!!

Happy Mother's Day!!!!!!!!!

I love heritage and history!!
Thanks for sharing!


HAPPY MOTHER"S DAY

Ps Sorrt about your mother.
Your post did make me teari- eyed.

I love that you volunteer! I do too and there is nothing like the feeling of God using you!