Edit: Giveaway is now closed.
Hi everyone,
Today I’m giving away a copy of my book, The Highway and Me and My Earl Grey Tea. Entering is simple: Just leave a comment below telling me your favorite Christmas/holiday tradition.
Or, just leave a comment. Any comment. Unless your comment specifically says “don’t enter my name into this giveaway,” I will enter your name into the giveaway.
The giveaway will close on Monday, December 14 at 3 pm PST.
If you want to increase your odds of winning, I’m also doing a giveaway on Facebook and on Instagram, so head over there and enter as well!
Good luck, and I hope you win! Heehee
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The Girl in the Red Rubber Boots 
We always take a plate of cookies to each of the neighbors. Doors are open at Christmas time that aren’t otherwise, and we’ve found it’s a good way to share the love of Jesus.
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My favorite Christmas tradition is the night before Christmas with my kids. We open gifts and eat special snacks and have all the twinkly lights on and a candle burning. We play Christmas music. It’s one of the few nights of the year we’re all together in one house.
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Howdy! My fav Christmas tradition is caroling! What’s better than sharing the Good News with neighbors and friends? Of course all the holiday cookie baking i wouldn’t want to miss either! 😆 😋 I’d love to read your book!! 😉 Even more, I’d love to win it!! 🤩🤩
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Christmas…. that nostalgic time of year when eyes are starry and faces are happy. I love how somehow this time of year brings out the best in humanity, of giving gifts and love to family, friends, and those less fortunate.
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Love just relaxing and enjoying time with family!!
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I enjoy spending time with family and friends!
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I love singing Christmas songs!
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I love Lazy Christmas days with my little ones – a late special breakfast and gifts and games, but we usually end up having a large family dinner invitation.
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Getting together with family and my mom usually makes a homemade snickers candy type bar that I only have then so I always look forward to that 😀
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I would like to win a copy of your book! One of my favorite holiday traditions is spending the whole day with my Aunt baking cookies 🍪 😋
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I would like to read your book!
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Hi and thanks for this opportunity to possibility win a book. For the past number of years, my family has been going to Florida over Christmas. But because hauling a bunch of gifts down there is a hassle, we started a tradition of exchanging names after we get to Florida. Then right after we exchange, we all go to the mall together and have an hour or two to do our shopping. It’s fun because we try to avoid each other at the mall. Then after we get back, we give each other our gifts. No gift wrap, no bows, no fluff. This has become something we look forward to every year because it’s hassle free and fun!
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Games around the fireplace, with christmas lights, music and snacks are my favorite memories!
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Putting together puzzles. 🙂
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A simple Christmas eve supper & gift exchange with my family!
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I love all things Christmas, but one of my faves is my family goes Christmas caroling to my grandparents and a childless great aunt and uncle. Every year I treasure this more, as they are now in their 80s, and my one grandpa passed away in his 90s this past year.
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I’d love to read your book.
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Can I have more than one tradition? 😊 Christmas caroling and spending the day with old friends is my favorites.
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From my childhood: That each of us eight siblings would give some gift, however small, to each of the others. The anticipation of giving was such fun!
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We did that too, always on a voluntary basis, and now we just each bring three of a favorite gift, exchange names and each of us goes on with three of giftings
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Spending time with family and a break from a very demanding job!
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Christmas eve our family always gets together with my grandparents and we open gifts and eat mandrine oranges and peanuts. It’s always super cozy.😉
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I love Christmas songs, especially caroling. LRM
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I love everything about Christmas! Caroling, Food, family gatherings, gifts, and lazy mornings!
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Hoping to win.
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Giving our kids an experience instead of “stuff” has become one of our favorite traditions.
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I love to light the candles on the beautiful wooden nativity carousel that was passed down to me by my grandparents.
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Not sure on my favorite Christmas traditon, but I’m feeling very nostalgic about everything that is missing this year. Guess maybe that should help me focus on the real meaning of Christmas without all the distractions, lovely though they may be!
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My favorite part of Christmas is all the family gatherings with their delicious meals.
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My favorite tradition is to go see Christmas lights around our little town on Christmas eve.We’ve been doing this for 32 years. With a new granddaughter this year, we just realized we don’t have enough seats in any vehicles to get all of us in. I’m willing to sit in the way back just to keep this going!
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Hi Emily! I’m so excited for you. We love Christmas at our house so its hard to choose just one. We enjoy going to town to look at all the beautiful Christmas displays.
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Putting together jig-saw puzzles.
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Do I have to choose just one? A good cup of hot tea or cocoa and a great book! 😉 Playing games. Time with family. Lazy mornings…. so much! 🙂
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Having grandkids stay overnight. When our kids were little, the grandparents gave WalMart gift cards and did a Walmart run in the middle of the night (pjs optional). Fun memories!
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I love attending a performance of Handel’s Messiah.
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The cold weather outside, and warm love and cheer inside:)
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My favorite Christmas tradition is making a big Christmas morning breakfast for my children and grandchildren.
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I always enjoy Christmas caroling with our church and spending time with family.
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Hey, I would love a shot at winning ur new book! Thanks for the fun giveaway!
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I love spending time with family!
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Being together with friends and family, eating good food, playing lots of games 🙂
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My favorite Christmas tradition is opening gifts on Christmas eve. I have your first book and absolutely loved it. I’d love to read your new book!
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My favorite Christmas tradition is all the Christmas songs that come with the season.
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Hi Emily, One favorite tradition is hard to choose,so I’ll give several.I love decorating my house for Christmas,listening to Christmas music and singing carols, and our school Christmas program.And more recently,I read a Christmas Story out of random books on every day from Thanksgiving to Christmas to my children.Every day the hunt is on to find the perfect story to read that night.And I’d love to win your book!Pretty sure I’ll know some people in it. 🙂 Thanks for entering me! Marlene Eash
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 3:58 PM The Girl in the Red Rubber Boots wrote:
> Emily Sara Smucker posted: ” Hi everyone, Today I’m giving away a copy of > my book, The Highway and Me and My Earl Grey Tea. Entering is simple: Just > leave a comment below telling me your favorite Christmas/holiday tradition. > Or, just leave a comment. Any comment. Unless y” >
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We had a beautiful foggy morning today. I’d look forward to reading your book if I won. 🙂
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Spending time with family is one of my favorite Christmas traditions!
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Christmas Caroling for sure! Our whole church goes every year and then we have a wonderful supper of all kinds of Christmasy finger foods and goodies afterwards.
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Every Christmas we wrap up 12 books to open one each day leading up to Christmas Day. Its such a special moment of our holiday season!
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Your book sounds interesting!
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Apparently I really want this book for free, cause I just entered all three ways 😆
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hot chocolate with a candy cane for a stir stick – until the candy cane melts anyway. And a book to read
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Last year I made a Shepherds meal for Christmas eve and liked it alot. Hoping maybe that can become a tradition. 🙂
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Making candies and cookies with my daughter…would love to read your book.
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My birthday is near Christmas and I think it’s neat how everyone feels so celebratory around my birthday! 🙂
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I’d love to read your book! Love following your blog! 😁
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Reading Ann Voskamp’s book _The Greatest Gift_
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I’d love to read your book.
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Singing Christmas songs with our church family.
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My favorite Christmas tradition is that my husband and I take a four wheeler ride on Christmas day! Usually in the afternoon or as the sun sets, to kind of wake us up again after a big Christmas dinner. 🙂
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My favorite Christmas tradition is our family’s Christmas Eve. Dad makes dinner and we dust off the china and eat by candlelight. I really enjoy reading your blog
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Thank you!
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Our family would have a special time Christmas eve of reading the Christmas story, singing carols and opening presents all in candlelight and pajamas.
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I already read your book, and it was inspiring. I love the honesty and vulnerability I heard in your words. I would love to share it with someone else!
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Spending the day with family. I would like a chance to win the book. 😊
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We always have special Christmas Eve dinner by candlelight, and I just love that!
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I’m in Canada so disregard if you’re not wanting to ship here. Really you’re safe because I never win things anyway. I’d love to read this book! And my favorite Christmas tradition is sleeping around the woodstove on Christmas Eve with my family.
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A lovely Christmas breakfast with my favorite people is my most loved Christmas tradition. I love the title of your book.
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One of my favorite traditions is the entire family relaxing by the fire after my mom’s incredible supper on Christmas Eve. Quality family time ❤️
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Going to Messiah concert!
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Favorite holiday tradition?
Christmas caroling and getting together with family and friends and the cookies and the Christmas story and the gifts and….
Christmas is my favorite time.
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Pick me, please!!
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I love being at Grandmas house at Christmas time! I love being with all my cousins and aunts and uncles. And my grandma makes the best Christmas punch!
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I do love getting and giving gifts, but next to that, I’d probably say my family’s Christmas Eve dinner which always includes shrimp and cheesy bacon covered fries and sparkling grape juice and peppermint ice cream.
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I think this book would be very interesting! (Even though I don’t care for tea.) 😉
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Our church Christmas caroling, and I’m incredibly sad that it isn’t happening this year!
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Making biscotti. Reading The Best Christmas Pageant Ever to my school kids.
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I love to see all Christmas lights. a new tradittion is the Christmas Eve service lighting the candles and singing Silent Night with only candlelight
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My favorite thing about Christmas is all the Christmas gatherings and parties!
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So excited about your book! My favorite Christmas tradition is making cookies/doughnuts/some kind of special sweets with my family.
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My favorite tradition is listening to the “Young Messiah while putting up my Christmas Tree.
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I enjoy spending time with family!
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Jolly family gatherings!
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Jolly family gatherings
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