As all those who appreciate greeting card holidays, obviously Mother's Day was yesterday. It's days like that that I am glad that A) I have a cell phone so the calls are free, and B) my closest family is over 8 hours away. Don't get me wrong, I love my family, I just enjoy my autonomy more
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Haha wanna know something funny? In Belgium, it's Mother's Day everywhere except the city/state/province of Antwerp where I reside - it's on August 15th instead. Go figure, I've never heard of a country where the same holiday had very different dates in different cities.
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That is weird about Antwerp. I lived in Germany (Stuttgart, to be specific) when I was in high school, and the closest thing I can think of to how Antwerp celebrates Mother's Day would be the various local fests observed in smaller cities, like the Esslingen Onion Festival. No one else I know of celebrated onions.
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