Leap year! What?

When I was 9 my mother cut my hair very short and didn't wear earrings, which means that I looked like a boy, I also have to mention that Danielle is not a girl's name use in Bolivia, people think it's a boy's name. The result of my parents great idea of giving me "boy's name" and having short hair, made me be the clown of my class. For a while my friends made fun of me because of those reasons, it was embarracing!
That same year, my parents decided to make a big party for my b-day. Everything was going great but before we cut the cake my mom had a great idea, I don't know if I could call that " great idea", at that time and age. She said: "Girls and boys, Dani was born on a leap year". Of course most of them didn't know what that meant but some did so did I. Can you imagine what happened the next day at school? I was not only the girl that looked like a boy with a boys's name but also the freak with no b-day. Unbeliavable! (I believe that is funny for you guys and now is funny for me as well but at that age it wasn't)
So I pierced my ears, and started to make them call me Daniela ("a girly name") and never mentioned again about my b-day. As the years passed I became very popular at school and nobody made fun of me again, and they never did indeed! But thanks the Lord those things left no trumas in my heart, but it was painful!
It was with time that that I started to appriciate that I was born on a leap year, in fact, I have made some research and found that this days is very special, because Leap years are needed so that the calendar is in alignment with the earth's motion around the sun. and with out this day the calendar would not work at all! hahahaha (there is more information about leap years, if you want more information, go to www.leapyearbeautifuldays.com avaiable for everybody, Just kidding!) It is not that I am a freak with no b-day, I am special, I wished I knew that when I was a child!
I remember this funny and educative story because I just celebrate my fake b-day- 1rst of march- and I found out that some of my new friends enjoyed that was born on a leap year, in fact they were hoping to meet someone like me, also my sweet boyfriend, Randy, likes it.
Isn´t ironic that now that I am a grown up I would not mind being bother with people making fun of my b-day but when I was a child I cried and was ashamed. Anyways I want to give thanks to the Lord for leap years and I hope every child that was born in this day feels loved and special (in a good way)!
Come on people make feel special to everyone and not only for leaps or not leaps b-days but for the only and most important reason that we are special in God's eyes (Randy, reminded me that) and that we can celebrate the gift of being brought to earth so we can say that it is only about JESUS!
Happy b-day to all of you