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A Son’s Sweet Surprise: How One Bouquet Brightened May Day for a Supermom

Apr29
"A Son’s Sweet Surprise: How One Bouquet Brightened May Day for a Supermom"

Every year, May 1st rolls around like a gentle breeze whispering in the promise of spring. While many people think of May Day as a quaint tradition, one young man saw it as the perfect moment to say something he hadn’t said enough: Thank you, Mom.

Meet Daniel.

A 26-year-old accountant juggling deadlines, adulting, and figuring out his future, Daniel isn’t exactly the poetic type. But this year, he wanted to do something special for the woman who helped shape his life—his mom, Teresa.

🌷 A Mother Who Does It All

Teresa is what you’d call a real-life Wonder Woman. She built a career she loves in healthcare management, runs a busy household, keeps her garden blooming, shows up for Sunday dinners, and somehow still finds time to help her sister, volunteer at her church, and attend her grandchild’s school play—even when work deadlines are pressing.

“She’s always just… there,” Daniel said. “Even when she’s exhausted. Even when no one’s thanking her. She keeps going. And I just realized… I hadn’t told her lately how much I notice all of it.”

💐 A Quiet Act of Appreciation

Daniel didn’t want to wait until Mother’s Day, when every store and social media post would remind him. He wanted to catch her by surprise. So he called Eden Florist.

“I remember my grandma used to tell stories about May Day,” he explained. “About little flower baskets on porches. It felt like the right moment—something sweet, a little unexpected.”

Together with one of our designers, Daniel chose a soft spring bouquet of tulips, daisies, and lily of the valley—the flower of sweetness and return. We added a handwritten card that simply said:

Happy May Day, Mom.
Thank you for everything you do—at work, at home, for our family.
You make it all look easy, and I know it’s not.
Love, Daniel.

🌼 The Power of Simple Gestures

When Teresa opened the door that afternoon and saw the flowers, she didn’t know what to think. “I had no idea what the occasion was,” she laughed later. “But when I saw the card, I cried right there on the porch.”

It wasn’t just the flowers. It was the thought behind them. The fact that someone had noticed. That her son had taken the time to see her not just as “Mom,” but as a woman—multitasking, nurturing, leading, giving—and to thank her.

Daniel told us, “She called me that night and said, ‘You made my whole week.’ All it took was a bouquet and a few words.”

🌸 Your Turn to Start a May Day Tradition

Whether it’s your mom, grandmother, sister, friend, or neighbor—May Day is the perfect time to let someone know they’re seen, appreciated, and loved.

It doesn’t have to be a grand gesture. In fact, it’s the little surprises—the quiet drops of kindness—that bloom the brightest in someone’s heart.

💌 Send Your Own May Day Message with Flowers

This May 1st, follow Daniel’s lead.

Send a bouquet. Drop a May Basket. Leave a note. Share a hug. It’s not about how much you spend—it’s about how much you care.

🌷 Order your May Day flowers now from Eden Florist and brighten someone’s season with a thoughtful surprise. We’ll help you choose the perfect blooms to honor the amazing women (and men) in your life.

👉 Visit EdenFlorist.com or call 954.981.5515 to schedule your special delivery.

Because gratitude never goes out of season—and flowers never go out of style.

Test Your Knowledge This Mothers Day

May8

Eden Florist just finished the latest wordsearch puzzle, Famous Mothers and you are invited to “play.”

Click on the link to download your copy now! 

Mother’s Day FAMOUS MOTHERS’ Wordsearch 2009.

You will need a PDF reader to view the document.

There’s still time to order flowers for MOM.  Just give Eden Florist in Davie, Florida a call at 800-966-3336 or 954-981-5515.  You can also place your order online at www.EdenFlorist.com.  But hurry, some styles are already sold out!

More Mothers Day Poetry to Inspire and Share

May4

Moms cannot be talked about enough. Here’s even more Mothers Day poetry to Inspire you and all the moms of the world.

When you need someone to stand beside you,
Mom is near …
When you need someone to hear your troubles,
She will hear …
When you need someone to share your burden,
She will share …
When you need to know that someone loves you,
Mom is there.

-Thomas J. Langley
A MOTHER’S LOVE

A Mothers’ Love is like an island
In life’s ocean vast and wide,
A peaceful quite shelter
From the restless, rising tide….

A Mothers’ Love is like fortress
And we seek protection there
When the waves of tribulation
Seem to drown us in despair.

A Mother’s Love a sanctuary
Where our souls can find sweet rest
From the struggle and tension
Of life’s fast and futile quest…

A Mother’s Love is like a tower
Rising far above the crowd,
And her smile is like the sunshine
Breaking through a threatening cloud…

A Mother’s Love is like a beacon
Burning bright with Faith and Prayer
And though the changing scenes of life
We can find a Haven There

For a Mother’s Love is fashioned
After God’s enduring love,
It is endless and unfailing
Like the love of HIM above…

* *

A MOTHER’S LOVE

A mother’s love is something
That no one can explain,
It is made of deep devotion
And sacrifice and pain,
It is endless and unselfish
And enduring come what may
For nothing can destroy it
Or take that love away…
It is patient and forgiving
When all others forsaking,
And it never fails or falters
Even though the heart is breaking…
It believes beyond believing
When the world around condemns,
And it glows with all the beauty
Of the rarest brightest gems…
It is far beyond defining,
It defies all explanation,
And it still remains a secret
Like the mysteries of creation….

A many splendoured miracle
Man cannot understand
And another wondrous evidence
Of Gods’ tender guiding hand.
WHAT IS A MOTHER?

A mother is someone to shelter and guide us,
To love us, whatever we do,
With a warm understanding and infinite patience
And wonderful gentleness, too.
How often a mother means swift reassurance
In soothing our small, childish fears,
How tenderly mothers watch over their children
And treasure them all through the years!
The heart of a mother is full of forgiveness
For any mistake, big or small,
And generous always in helping her family,
Whose needs she has placed above all.
A mother can utter a word of compassion
And make all our cares fall away,
She can brighten a home with the sound of her laughter
And make life delightful and gay.
A mother possesses incredible wisdom
And wonderful insight and skill –
In each human heart is that one special corner
Which only a mother can fill!

Katherine Nelson Davis
THANK YOU MOM
I know how often I took you for granted
when I was growing up.
I always assumed you’d be there
when I needed you…
and you always were.
But I never really thought about what that meant
till I got older and began to realize
how often your time and energy were devoted to me.
so now, for all the times I didn’t say it before,
thank you, Mom…. I love you so very much!
– Author Unknown.
God’s Masterpiece Is Mother
God took the fragrance of a flower…
The majesty of a tree…
The gentleness of morning dew…
The calm of a quiet sea…
The beauty of the twilight hour…
The soul of a starry night…
The laughter of a rippling brook…
The grace of a bird in flight…
Then God fashioned from these things
A creation like no other,
And when his masterpiece was through
He called it simply – Mother.
– Herbert Farnham

A MOTHER’S LOVE
There are times when only a Mother’s love
Can understand our tears,
Can soothe our disappoints
And calm all of our fears.
There are times when only a Mother’s love
Can share the joy we feel
When something we’ve dreamed about
Quite suddenly is real.
There are times when only a Mother’s faith
Can help us on life’s way
And inspire in us the confidence
We need from day to day.
For a Mother’s heart and a Mother’s faith
And a Mother’s steadfast love
Were fashioned by the Angels
And sent from God above…
– Author Unknown.
And Grandma’s Too
“While we honor all our mothers
with words of love and praise.
While we tell about their goodness
and their kind and loving ways.
We should also think of Grandma,
she’s a mother too, you see….
For she mothered my dear mother
as my mother mothers me.”
– Unknown

 Be sure to honor MOM with flowers this Mothers Day. Call Eden Florist at 954-981-5515 to send the perfect floral tribute to your mom!

History of Mothers Day

May3

History of Mother’s Day

  It started in Rome and became a United States national holiday less than 100 years ago.
You may think it was all started by Hallmark in an effort to sell cards, but that’s not the case at all.  Mother’s Day dates back to the ancient Romans and made its way to the United States in the early 1900’s and finally became a national holiday in 1914.

The earliest tributes to Mother’s Day date back to the annual spring festival the Greeks dedicated to Rhea, the mother of many deities, and to the offerings ancient Romans made to their Great Mother of Gods, Cybele.  Christians celebrated a Mother’s Day of sorts during a festival on the fourth Sunday in Lent in honor of Mary, mother of Christ.  In England the holiday was expanded to include all mothers.  It was then called Mothering Sunday.

In the United States it started with one woman named Anna Jarvis.  Jarvis was an Appalachian homemaker and she organized a day to raise awareness of poor health conditions of her community.  She thought the day would be best advocated by mothers and called the day “Mother’s Work Day”.

When Anna Jarvis died in 1905 her daughter, also named Anna, began a campaign to memorialize the life work of her mother.  Anna remembered that her mother said there were many days dedicated to men but not for mothers.  Anna then began to lobby the politicians of the time to support a day dedicated to mothers.  Anna Jarvis talked to many politicians including Presidents Taft and Roosevelt hoping they would support her campaign. 

Jarvis organized a church service to celebrate her mother in 1908 and Anna handed out white carnations to those in attendance because the white carnation was her mother’s favorite flower.  Anna Jarvis’ hard work began to pay off five years after that service in 1913.  The House of Representatives adopted a resolution calling for officials of the federal government to wear white carnations on the day many began calling Mother’s Day, the second Sunday in May.

Finally on May 8, 1914 President Woodrow Wilson signed a Joint Resolution designating the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.  

“Now, Therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the said Joint Resolution, do hereby direct the government officials to display the United States flag on all government buildings and do invite the people of the United States to display the flag at their homes or other suitable places on the second Sunday in May as a public expression of our love and reverence for the mothers of our country.”

That was the first official Mother’s Day and the tradition carries on to this day.  In fact, Mother’s Day has flourished in the United States .  The second Sunday in May has become the most popular day of the year to dine out, and telephone lines record their highest traffic, as sons and daughters everywhere take advantage of this day to honor and to express appreciation of their mothers. (source: chiff.com)

Be sure to order flowers for your favorite MOM at Eden Florist.

Moms and flowers a perfect combination

May2

According to a 2008 Survey done by Constant Contact (an email marketer) Flowers are still the most popular choice when it comes to honoring MOM.  And according to the Society of American Florists, Mother’s Day is the top flower holiday of the year.

 

With the onslaught of advertising done by the Big Three (Teleflora, FTD and 800 Flowers) flowers for mother’s day are on the top of mind choice for most consumers, year after year.  
 

And according to the National Retail Federation, the average spent on flowers by men is $139.00 and by women $110.00.  That’s good news to me, because in my shop men have traditionally spent more on their wives and girlfriends for Valentine’s Day than on their Mom’s for Mother’s Day!

At Eden Florist you have a choice of several beautifully designed bouquets starting at $44.95. 

 

Check out the Top Ten flowers Mom’s prefer for Mothers Day at http://www.edenflorist.com/article_info.php?articles_id=32

  

To check out our full selection of Mother’s Day bouquets, visit: Eden Florist today!

Still More Mothers Day Quotes

May8

• “Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children.” ~ Maxim Gorky 

• “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” ~ Honore’ de Balzac (1799-1850) 

• “The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) 

• The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. ~ W.R. Wallace 

• “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” ~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 

• “Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.” ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy 

• A mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart – a heart so large that everybody’s grief and everybody’s joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. ~ Mark Twain 

• Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. ~ Pope Paul VI 

• “Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.” ~ Sophocles 

• A mother understands what a child does not say. ~ Jewish proverb 

Mother’s Week is May 5-11 and Mother’s Day is May 11th. Remember Mom with flowers!  Call Eden Florist at 954-981-5515 or visit our website at www.EdenFlorist.com. Order Early!