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Today I am happy to host author Shawna Romkey on my blog. Her book, Speak of the Devil, debuted this month.
Today is the last day of her March Easter Egg Blog Tour Hunt.
Keep reading to find out what prizes she's giving away!
What are your Easter
traditions?
As Easter quickly
approaches, I realize I have yet to buy my egg coloring kit or at the very
least some vinegar and food coloring. I have a six year old, so these things
are still critical to our celebrations. Oh, and eggs to be hard-boiled.
Strangely enough, I really like to eat hard-boiled eggs, but don’t make them
very much with the exception of Easter.
It’s going to be a
beautiful weekend, thankfully since we just had snow last week. But that has
melted and we’ll be able to hide eggs outside for the kids. One other thing my
family always did on Easter was tohave a kite-flying contest. We used to gather
in Tipton, Missouri, by the old 8-ball water tower, (if you’ve traveled
mid-Missouri on hwy 50, you know where I mean), and all of us, aunts, uncles,
cousins, grandparents, friends and neighbors would get together and have a huge
kite flying contest. Well, we called it a contest, but other than bragging
rights, there were never any prizes. Some would bring expensive, fancy, exotic
contraptions, but I always opted for the 99 cent special at the Dollar Store,
and usually mine flew the highest and stayed in the air the longest. Along with
the mocking and trashtalking, the being together and doing something outside on
Easter was one of my favorite family memories.
So now that I have my own
family, I like to try to get them out. I’m in Nova Scotia now, and not
Missouri, so the nicer weather is about a month behind where I’m from. Often we
still have rain or snow. But I’m excited to see the forecast and see that it
should be a beautiful, albeit a bit nippy, day.
Coloring eggs, an Easter
egg hunt, the Easter bunny visiting the kids, a big Easter dinner, candy and
kites… that’s what Easter is like at our house. What’s it like at yours? What
traditions do you follow or fun things do you do?
Also, today is the last day
in my Easter Egg Blog Hop! Traci has hidden a letter in this blog post, and so
did several of my previous posts. If you find them all in order, they spell a
line from my book Speak of the Devil. Tweet it with @sromkey #speakofthedevil
and you’re entered to win a signed copy of my book plus a swag pack. For the
details and the list of blogs taking part, see my post on it here: http://www.shawnaromkey.com/?p=706
