Here in the UK, Mothering Sunday is always the fourth Sunday of Lent, usually meaning it falls sometime in March. This year it its Sunday 22nd March so we have a week to go! Like many of our modern day celebrations, it began as a religious festival where people would visit their "mother church". This is the church they were baptised in and on which they subsequently honour their mother. It is a sign of the times that Mother’s Day has become more commercialised in recent decad