Once again it is the time of year where children flock to their parent’s room with macaroni cards and spa day coupons in order to recognize one person. This day is Mother’s Day, which will be held on May 9 this year.

For the days leading up to it, students have been collaborating with friends and family members for that one perfect gift which will make all their mothers’ day.

Some students, like Brianna Graff, ’13, speculate that the day shows respect and admiration toward moms. She has decided to take her mother out to lunch for a care-free afternoon.

“I plan to wake my mother up and give her some gifts,” Graff said. “We’re then, as a family, going to take her to breakfast. In doing this, I think it shows appreciation toward our mothers and shows how much we care about them and the things that they do for us.”

Junior Hannah Palmer, similar to Graff, believes that Mother’s Day provides an opportunity to recognize the importance of her mother in her life.

“It [Mother’s Day] is a day to symbolize how awesome moms are because they do so much for us and I don’t think we give them enough recognition,” Palmer said. “They do everything — the laundry, the dishes and dinner. Without them we’d probably not have a lot of the things we have now.”

For one celebration, Palmer says that she and her brother took their mom to Woodward Park in order to celebrate with a picnic.

“It was the first Mother’s Day after my mom and dad got divorced, so it was special to be able to celebrate it as we three together,” Palmer said. “We had a picnic and played frisbee; it went really well.”

Not all scheduled Mother’s Days go according to plan, however. Last year, sophomore Jake Sorenson decided to take his mom hiking. Although only on the first leg of their journey, the day turned horrible, Sorenson says.

“When we got home, we found out the present we ordered for her wouldn’t come for two days after Mother’s Day. At this point everything’s just out of control; Mom’s crying and we go in her room and try to make her happy. In the end we ended up going to see a movie. It was the worst day ever.”

For math teacher Mike Fenton, a new father, seeing his wife and child reminds him of all his mother did for him when he was a child.

“In being a husband of someone who is now a mother, and watching my son grow up, I get to see everything that she does for our son and then I can now imagine more acuratly everything that my mom did for me,” Fenton said. “My appreciation for it grows greater still.”

For more on Mother’s Day, read the May 11, 2007 article, Make Mother’s Day memorable.