Reflections on Mother’s Day Bill Tinsley Countries around the world set aside a special day for mothers. It is celebrated on the second Sunday in May in the U.S. Canada, New Zealand, Australia, India, Brazil, Germany, Ethiopia and the Philippines. Woodrow Wilson proclaimed Mothers Day an official holiday starting on May 8, 1914. Still other nations honor mothers on different dates. This week husbands, sons and daughters will don their masks and struggle to keep their distance while searching for the perfect Mothers Day card. Florists will put on extra staff to handle the demand. Many families will test pandemic restrictions to take their mothers out to eat.