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A Little in English
Norwegian Mother's Day - the Second
Sunday in February
Mother's Day is an American invention, dating to the second Sunday in May in 1907. That was when the first Memorial Mother's Day Meeting was celebrated in the Methodist church in Crafton, West Virginia after the initiative of Ann Jarvis (1864-1948) as a personal memorial day for her mother who had died two years before. The year after Ann Jarvis sent out an appeal to make this Sunday a general holiday for all mothers, and her appeal was taken up by the Methodist churches in Crafton and Philadelphia, and later spread from there.
In Norway the custom of Mother's Day was first introduced in a Methodist church in Bergen, possibly as early as the first world war. But the first breakthrough for an official mother's day was an initiative from Dorothea Schjoldager (1853-1938) and Karen Platou (1897-1950) in Oslo. In the years between the two world wars they worked to get a mother's day in Norway set for the second Sunday in February, possibly because Norway has so many holidays in May.
From being a day arraigned by religious organizations the occasion has in later years become a day for the family. In Norway, father and children wait on mother on this day. The day can be celebrated with breakfast in bed, flowers, dinner at a restaurant or a nice card. The day has also become commercialized, and several shops sell cards and gifts specially targeted at mothers.
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Bethesda Home by Gene Kaczmarek
Members of Skjold and Leif Erikson lodges treated residents of Bethesda Home in Chicago to a special afternoon of good food, singing and entertainment, Sunday, January 15, 2006. The delicious food included Julekake, krumkake and lots of homemade baked goods. You could see from the smiles on the resident's faces that they thoroughly enjoyed the Leikarringen
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"Heimhug" dancers. Lester Amack at the piano and a mixed chorus of lodge members singing familiar songs along with residents brought warm feelings to the many elderly residents in the room. Tusen takk to the 17 members who made the lives of these Bethesda Home residents a little bit better on a cold winter day. Both lodges presented monetary donations to the Bethesda home. Pictures from this fun afternoon are available at our web site www.skjoldlodge.com.
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