LEAP YEAR Once More

Mummy gets us excited about Leap Year even when we were very little. Moments together like that I wish... would come at least every Leap year. 
She would tell us that we are lucky that we do not have our Birthdays on Feb.29th. We would have had to wait 4 years to celebrate one birthday. As soon as we start to feel sorry for those with leap year Birthdays, she would add ' oh, but this is a unique day & that makes it a very special birthday.
There was that age when we counted our age by the number of Birtjday cakes we have had thus far.  She explained that each Leap year B'Day cake would have three little cupcakes hidden inside. And that made sense.  But also made us want to have a Leap Year Birthday! 

I am my mothers' daughter,
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YEAR OF MERCY

Year of Mercy
Pope Francis declared
2016

Years ago
Who declared
Tears of Mercy


Shall be
The answer
To my silent prayer?

I am my mothers' daughter (& my daughter's mother)
Copyright©VeerajaR 2016