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A friend of mine shared this website with our group and was looking for ways to have fun tomorrow. Of course, a rousing game of leap frog comes to mind. I'm not sure I could stomach fried frog's legs right now, but they are considered meatless right?
Anything else?
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I just saw this list of Famous Leap Day Babies and now I am curious... anybody here a leap day baby?
Oh and this article is a little history lesson on the town that is now the leap year capital of the world.
And you can find out what special events took place on leap days here.
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 I hadn't thought about leap year! Fun!
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We're calling it "Bonus Day". We'll be spending the day doing all of the things we never seem to be able to find the time to do:
games
baking cookies
long ramble through the neighbourhood (if the weather cooperates)
art projects
etc.
There is only one rule- no housework allowed 
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I'm thinking of having the boys write about what a perfect day would be like for them from beginning to end. What things they would eat, where they'd go, what they'd do, who'd they see, etc. I'll probably let them narrate to me and I'll type it in for them.
That really doesn't have a lot to do with Leap Year, except that as Lori said, it's like a bonus day. And as with any bonus (particularly "cash" bonuses  ), we think about what we can spend it on - usually fun and frivolous things.
Another idea - checkers might be fun. (The way you "leap" over another player's piece?)
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We have discussed Leap Year and Leap Day all week long. My 14 and 10 year olds are fascinated with the whole concept.
Today my 14 yr old suggested "Why don't we skip school tomorrow...for Leap Day. After all, it's just an extra day this year."
Well, of course... 
So, outside of Girl's Club where the girls and I will be decorating cakes at a friend's house and our Friday Stations of the Cross, I'm not really sure what we'll being doing tomorrow.
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Well, after giving it some thought... we have also decided to take the day off (except for Mass and Stations) and similar to Dawn's suggestion, we are going to be doing things we wouldn't normally do (since we wouldn't normally have a Feb. 29th) like kite flying, a trip to the ice cream store, or maybe a surprise trip to the bookstore. Have a great Leap Day!
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Watch the famous "Pirates of Penzance"?
I ALWAYS think of the "Pirates of Penzance" on Feb 29th. If we EVER have a baby on Feb 29th and it's a boy it's gotta be Frederick.
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Take a look at some famous "leap" quotes and sayings:
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. - Neil Armstrong
Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. -Superman observers
Look before you leap. - Proverb
Go take a flying leap.
A leap of faith
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Maddie wrote:
Watch the famous "Pirates of Penzance"?
I ALWAYS think of the "Pirates of Penzance" on Feb 29th. If we EVER have a baby on Feb 29th and it's a boy it's gotta be Frederick. |
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That's what we'll be doing! Yesterday I was telling dd about Leap Year, and I remembered the song "Paradox" from Pirates of Penzance. So, we listened to it on You Tube. She loved it. I have the movie on video, so I said for Leap Day we'd watch it. I'm excited, its one of my favorite movies, but I haven't seen it in years!
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Hmmm. I hadn't thought about until this post. I kept thinking it was going to be March 1st even though we just talked about leap year last week.
My 16 year old was teasing me saying that I would have ended up at Mass today thinking it was first friday.
My children were looking over my shoulder when I was reading all your responses yesterday and they agreed that we shouldn't do any "school".
As my witty 16 year old stated, "After all Mom, it will be a day we haven't had in three years. We wouldn't have done anything on this day last year."
So playing it is!!!
Happy Leap Day to all!!!
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I want to play What to do???? Great idea of a bonus day, let me see what the dc think up!
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My Maggie missed being a leap day on the Millenium by one day -- I actually went into labor on Feb 29, 2000 but she decided to hold off until Mar 1 ... I guess she didn't want the chance of NOT having a birthday every year. We have 3 or 4 friends whose kids were born on leap days ....
And I'm with Lori on this one -- it's a bonus day so let's just play .... and when my boys play there's always lots of leaping around anyway!
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Farmer's Almanac has a nice history of Leap Day.
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My second grade teacher was a twin and they were leap year babies. We were older than she was!
We figured out how old a Leap Year Baby would have to be to turn 29 on the 29th. (116)
She told us that St Brigid complained to St Patrick that women were tired of waiting for men to propose marriage. So St Patrick set aside leap day as a time when women could turn the tables on men. Every four years or so a woman could propose marriage.
When I was looking for some info on Leap Year this morning I found that a law enacted in Scotland in 1288 allowed a maiden to "bespeak the man she likes" during leap year. If he refused to marry her, a fine could be assessed.
McDonald's is having .29 hamburgers today, not that that does us any good...but we might stop in for their Shamrock Shakes perhaps, in honor of St Patrick and St Brigid and Leap Year! 
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Jenn, we posted at the same time! Glad to see your Almanac has the St Brigid and St Patrick story too!
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marihalojen wrote:
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Yes, I thought it was a great tie-in into February and March, too!
Another calendar story, not exactly leap year, but when the Gregorian calendar took effect, they had to remove 10 days to get the year back on track. St. Teresa of Avila's died the night of October 4, 1582. The next day the Gregorian reform of the calendar was put into effect, dropping ten days from the calendar. Thus her feast is fixed on October 15 instead of October 5.
I always like stories like that!
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I missed it, but the Martha Stewart show was a special Leap Year Show today. It replays on the Fine Living channel on Monday night at 8. Kind of after the point, but it sounds like a cute episode. 
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