Sometimes the hardest thing about Mother’s Day can be finding just the right words to write in either your homemade or store-bought card.
10 Quotes and 3 Bible Verses To Use In Your Mother’s Day Cards
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“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” –Milton Berle
“No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.” –Edwin Chapin
“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” –Oprah Winfrey
“Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.” –Kahlil Gibran
“To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language.” –Arlene Benedict
“Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.” –Marion C. Garretty
“Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.”–T. DeWitt Talmage
“If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.” –Robert Brault
“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. –Washington Irving
“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” –Victor Hugo
“Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: ‘Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.’ “. –Proverbs 31: 28-29
“For you created my inmost being, you knit me together in my mother’s womb.” — Psalm 139:13
“Grandparents are proud of their grandchildren, just as children are proud of their parents.” — Proverbs 17:6 
Need A Gift To Fit In Your Mother’s Day Card?
My mother passed away years ago, but when she was alive, she didn’t live near me for several years. We didn’t have the money in those years to pay for a florist to deliver flowers to her home nor did we have the money to send a large parcel, so I got creative with my gift giving and instead gave her gifts that fit within a card.
Gift Certificates For Mom’s Favorite Places To Eat And Shop
Some moms love gift cards and some don’t find them personal enough. You need to decide what category your mother fits into. My mom didn’t mind them as long as they were for stores or restaurants she didn’t just like, but loved!
Related post: did you know that you can earn gift cards through websites and apps through things you already do now for free?
Packets Of Wildflower Seeds For Mom’s Flower Garden
Gardening stores, farming stores and sometimes even hardware stores carry individual packets of wildflower seeds all year long that you can buy and then place inside your card so that your mom can enjoy blooms from you in her flower garden all summer long.
Give Mom A Spa Night In A Card
Give your mom a facial on you by sending her a facial mask packet that will easily fit in a card. You can also usually find individual packets of smelly bath salts and invigorating foot soaks in the beauty aisle of most major department stores.
Give Mom The Smell Of Flowers
You might not be able to afford to have flowers delivered to your mom on Mother’s day, but you can still give her something that smells wonderful by putting a scented sachet in her card that she can then place in a draw in her dresser or hang on a hanger in her closet.
Touch Mom’s Heart With This List
A few years before my mother was diagnosed with cancer that took her from me, I wrote a list entitled “10 Reasons Why I Am Glad You Are My Mother” –and it touched her deeply. Now that she is no longer walking this earth with I am so incredibly thankful that I wrote that list while she was still here to read it. I encourage every child to do this one for their own mother.
Personalize A Mother’s Necklace
I have a Mother’s necklace, and I love it. It has a different pearl to represent each of my children set inside an adorable wire peapod and could have easily been included in a card.
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