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Greetings young Squire Sprouts.

Today is the first day and the third month in the year of our Lord 2025.

My name is Sir Roland Peter Law, and you're listening to Saturdays with Sir Rowland

on Catholic Sprouts, where every Saturday we discuss the art of dragon slain.

Today we celebrate my daughter,

Lady Mariah's 13th birthday. We also celebrated it yesterday. You see, her birthday is on February 29th, which only happens every four years. This is not one of those years, so instead of skipping

her birthday, she just celebrates it two days in a row, February 28th, and March 1st.

So don't feel too sorry for her for only having a real birthday every four years, since every other

year she gets two birthdays. So anyway, happy birthday Lady Mariah again. When Mariah was younger,

I used to take her out for what we call daddy days, usually around her birthday or baptism anniversary.

In fact, I used to do this for all my kids.

Even though most of them are teenagers now, I was thinking that I really should restart this habit.

The point of a daddy day was to give each kid their own day of the year where they would get my undivided attention,

and I would take them wherever

they wanted to go and do whatever they wanted to do. Within reason, of course, there were no trips

to Rome or anything like that. For all the dads who are listening out there, I really recommend you

set aside daddy days with your kids. It's an opportunity to teach our kids that even though we as

their earthly dads are limited in our time and space and

we're not perfect, we are doing our best to introduce them to God the Father, who is a perfect

father. They can have a daddy day with God the Father any time they want because God is not

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