Last week was Easter. What are your family traditions for this holiday? Ours is pretty fun. I don't remember which country this comes from, but we heard of this tradition that on the night before Easter, the Easter bunny ties a string - we use yarn - to the child's bed post. Upon waking, the child must untie the string, and follow it, making a ball of the string, until he/she finds their basket. The string represents the trail the Easter bunny traveled, in search of the best hiding place for their basket. Now this trail is no ordinary trail, it goes all throughout the house, yard, garage, over the house, through trees, etc. You get the picture. We have done this for nearly 20 years now. My youngest is 15 yrs. old, and the oldest at home is 22. This year we asked if we had to do the string, and, of course, we did. The problem was, was our 18 year old daughter was out on a date and wasn't coming home until midnight. Do you know how late we were going to have to stay up???
You may be asking yourself what this has to do with writing. Let me tell you: This year we added a new dimension to the search for the baskets. We did the string, as always, but not nearly as much. At the end of the string was a note. On that note was a clue, written in poetry form, that sent them on a Treasure Hunt. The kids loved it! (And the best part was we didn't have to stay up till the wee hours of the morning to hide baskets.) It was great and we all had fun. The kids loved the challenge of figuring out the riddle, and I had a blast writing them.
Traditions are great, even if you have to change them up a bit from time to time.
