Mother’s Day is celebrated in different ways around the world.
According to the website Mental Floss, in Peru, often honours the mothers, grandmothers and ancestors who are no longer alive along with the ones who are.
Similar to Canadians, Peruvians might give flowers, cards or other gifts on Mother’s Day, but they also often gather at cemeteries to honour those who have passed away.
But these are not somber occasions.
Families gather to eat, drink and celebrate among the graves.
In Haiti, one custom is to wear flowers of specific colours to indicate whether their mothers are still living.
Red and pink flowers are worn by those who still have their others and white flowers are for those who have recently died, while purple flowers are sometimes worn by those who lost their mothers long ago.
You may have heard of breakfast in bed as a gesture for moms, but the Mental Floss website says in Mexican culture, one tradition is to wake moms up with a mariachi band at dawn.
The first Mother’s Day in Canada was celebrated May 9th, 1914, by attending church services and wearing a white carnation.