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For the mother that spends time in the kitchen a festive recipe box is just the ticket.Photo by Phil Masturzo

by Kathy Antoniotti

Americans have been celebrating mothers since President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed Mother's Day an annual national observance in 1915.

But citizens had been lobbying the government to set aside a day to honor mothers for many decades before the second Sunday in May was chosen as the official day to recognize the importance of motherhood.
Noted writer and lecturer Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), made the first known suggestion for a Mother's Day in the United States in 1872. A reformer and noted abolitionist of her time, she wrote poems and plays and helped her husband edit The Commonwealth, an antislavery paper. Howe thought people should observe Mother's Day on June 2 in America to celebrate peace.

see the instructions to make the recipe box at  -  http://www.azcentral.com/thingstodo/kids/articles/2010/05/06/20100506kids-crafts-mothers-day.html#ixzz0nGoI3PB1