Naturally, “Mother’s Day” would be the perfect film to watch on the day focused on celebrating mothers. The film follows three mothers — Sandra (Jennifer Aniston), Miranda (Julia Roberts) and Jesse (Kate Hudson) — as well as a clueless widower dad, Bradley (Jason Sudeikis) as they handle the various aspects of motherhood.

Here’s how Mother’s Day came to be, and how it’s changed over time. Suffragist and writer Julia Ward Howe first suggested the idea of Mother’s Day in the United States in 1872. Howe was a pacifist and saw the holiday as a chance to unite women and rally for peace.