8 Maids-a-Milking: $58.00 (no change)

The price of the six geese-a-laying in 2019 was $420. With a 35 percent price increase this year, the geese cost $570. That’s the second-highest increase of all the gifts.

The ‘Seven Swans-a-Swimming’ are the most expensive overall gift in PNC’s Christmas Price Index at $23,125. The least expensive are the three French Hens at $210.

Six geese a-laying: Six large birds producing eggs (from a Christmas song)

The 8 Maids A-milking are the eight beatitudes. The 9 Ladies Dancing are the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit. The 10 Lords A-leaping are the ten commandments. The 11 Pipers Piping are the eleven faithful apostles.

Now, I know that we all sing about the Twelve Days of Christmas, but you might not have realized that the pagan celebration of Yule is twelve days long, starting with the winter solstice on December 21 and ending on January 1.

The nine ladies dancing represent the nine fruits of the Spirit listed in Galatians 5:22. These fruits are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

She gets 10 lords a-leaping on the last 3 days….The gifts are:

• A partridge in a pear tree,
• Two turtle doves,
• Three french hens,
• Four calling birds,
• Five gold rings,
• Six geese a-laying.
• Seven swans a-swimming,
• Eight maids a-milking,

the eleven faithful apostles

1a : an act of leaping : spring, bound. b(1) : a place leaped over or from. (2) : the distance covered by a leap. 2a : a sudden passage or transition a great leap forward. b : a choice made in an area of ultimate concern a leap of faith.

the 10 Commandments

Leaping: Jumping forward or back with one leg outstretched; taking off on one foot and landing on the other. Running: Sometimes both feet are in the air while traveling. Skipping: Alternating steps and hops.

The definition of a leap is a jump from one point to another or a sudden or large movement or transition. An example of leap is how a frog gets around. An example of leap is going right from a first date to a wedding.

to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch. to move or act quickly or suddenly: to leap aside; She leaped at the opportunity. to pass, come, rise, etc., as if with a jump: to leap to a conclusion; an idea that immediately leaped to mind.

Happy leap year! 2020 is a leap year, a 366-day-long year. Every four years, we add an extra day, February 29, to our calendars. These extra days – called leap days – help synchronize our human-created calendars with Earth’s orbit around the sun and the actual passing of the seasons.

In a leap year there are 366 days. In addition, 1956 was a leap year and the extra day would account for 3½ million gallons. Will we have to wait until the next leap year? In a leap year, we have 52 weeks and two days.

The Short Answer: That is a leap year. In an ordinary year, if you were to count all the days in a calendar from January to December, you’d count 365 days. But approximately every four years, February has 29 days instead of 28. So, there are 366 days in the year. This is called a leap year.

To determine whether a year is a leap year, follow these steps:

1. If the year is evenly divisible by 4, go to step 2.
2. If the year is evenly divisible by 100, go to step 3.
3. If the year is evenly divisible by 400, go to step 4.
4. The year is a leap year (it has 366 days).
5. The year is not a leap year (it has 365 days).