Mother's Day in Poland

[Jaga]

We celebrate a Mother's Day in Poland later than the Mother's Day in the US. The Mother Day in Poland is not such a huge celebration like it is here, still I invite you to read the article about it:

culture.polishsite.us/articles/art191.html

[rdywenur]

Jaga...your article mentions food or lack of it in Poland. Here we take our Mother's out for Mother's day to a brunch or dinner but this also has not always been the case. (I think only in the past maybe 20 years when everyone started to go "Out to dinner") When I was growing up we made cards for our mothers in school. So mostly cards and flowers for Mothers Day. I think the eating out came along with treating mom so she would not need to cook and give her a break. Mostly I think it is just to acknowledge a very important person in our lives. Altough these are all nice traditions I think ever day should be Mother's Day.

[Jaga]

Chris,

we were also preparing cards for our mothers at school. They were called "laurka" (praising card).

This is a type of laurka:



www.bialapodlaska.uc.gov.pl/images/news/21-09-2005/laurka_z.jpg

but we could not afford dinners that much as it is here. On the other hand we have lots of caffeterias in Poland and this is when birthdays and other occassions are more often celebrated. So, instead of a regular dinner we could have a cake and coffee

[Jaga]

This is what I wanted to post in the morning but I could not. Today we have a Mother's Day it Poland. It is May 26 each year.

Wszystkiego dobrego na Dzien Matki dla wszystkich Matek!