Äitienpäivä or Mother's Day in Finland

Next Sunday will be a special day for many women in Finland. The second Sunday of May is celebrated in Finland the Mother's Day, or in Finnish, Äitienpäivä. It was in the late 1920's when the day was declared official.
To celebrate this day mothers receive normally flowers and lovely hand-made cards from their children. It is also common that the mother gets breakfast in bed, with coffee and fresh pulla pastries, o even home-made cake.

Source:The Fresh Loaf

This day is as well, since 1947, official flag day. In Finland there is some holidays when Finnish flags are displayed at least in the public buildings. It is common that many individuals raise the flags too in many of these days. Some known days when the flags are raised are Mother's Day, the day of the Kalevala (also celebrated as the day of the Finnish Culture) and the Labour day, Vappu.
There is some unofficial flag days as well that because of popular tradition display the flag, such as the father's day.

Would you like to celebrate the Mother's day with us? Give your mother an unforgeattable experience in Lapland!

St. Lapland Team