Mothers Day Blessings --??

In Guatemala May 10th is Mothers Day, but celebrations seem to be slightly different from England. Here any celebration involves a lot of noise -and preferably from fireworks / bangers / firecrackers. But most importantly you should wake up to this noise!! So if it's your birthday, your friends will get up early and set off firecrackers outside your window as a wake up call! Apparently the same goes for Mothers Day. Where I was staying with the step team - in a rural town -- getting up before the mothers meant that the bangers started at 3am! - and continued - sometimes accompanied by loud speakers explaining how wonderful the particular mother in question is - until about 5.30am. I was tempted to quote Proverb 27: 14 (If you wake your friend in the early morning by shouting "Rise and shine!", it will sound to him more like a curse than a blessing), but realise that this is a cultural difference that I should attempt to understand. And I have since discovered that this was actually quite mild! One of the Striders spent most of the night (from 11.30pm til 5am) with the youth group from his church, traipsing the streets and setting off bangers and firecrackers and 'serenading' each person's mother. The mothers presumably felt blessed by this.