Americans are spending more on Mother's Day than ever before

Anna Jarvis, who led the push in the early 1900s for a national celebration of Mother's Day, later decried the holiday because she felt it became too commercialized.

If only Jarvis could see the business of Mother's Day now.

Americans are expected to spend a record $25 billion on Mother's Day this year for flowers, jewelry, greeting cards and the like, according to the National Retail Federation.

That's the highest spending in the 16 years that the trade group, together with Prosper Insights & Analytics, has been surveying