“My husband is in Afghanistan and a few ‘favorite things’ would brighten my day!”
How about that, Sisters?!? OK, Edie, please contact Living Proof Ministries at toll free (888) 700-1999 and give us an address. Please ask for Kimberly or Susan. Knowing what we now know, all of us here would want so much to send you to the beach…but, instead, we’re sending the beach to you. ENJOY!!!
PROCEED WITH CAUTION: this post will embody most everything you anticipate and perhaps even despise about women’s ministry. There will even be pink nail polish. As the great Professor Thornbury said a few weeks ago on the Twitterverse “something is not a stumbling block if you can see it coming.” So, consider yourself warned.
Colin and I just returned from a week at the beach in Mexico. It was crazy fantastic. I slept. I read classic literature. I also swam with a dolphin named Duey. And on the day I returned home I was greeted abrasively by a stomach bug and a crick in my neck so bad I could barely move my head. Oh, and then my 100 lb puppy Winston ate my over-priced prescription eye-glasses. But how can I really be frustrated with this bad boy?
Anyway, since this weekend was the Memorial Day holiday I scrolled through numerous tweets from people who were somewhere fabulous while I was at home with a bag of frozen corn under my neck. And I began to weep for the serenity of the ocean and my dolphin Duey.
But enough about me.
I want to talk about you.
I got to thinking that there may be some of you who won’t get a break this summer. While nearly everyone you know is off to some fabulous island, you won’t get a moment’s rest. For whatever reason, you won’t be able to retreat to the beach or the mountains or to wherever else makes your heart happy. We want to send a little fun and lots of love your direction so we’re doing a random give-away. And it will not include commentaries, concordances, or anything super useful or meaningful.
This giveaway is simply full of some of my personal favorite summer things including: Bobbi Brown Beach parfum (seriously smells exactly like the beach!), classic Ray-Ban aviators, Votivo Candle in White Ocean Sands, a pair of bright yellow Moleskine notebooks, Tea Forte’ Pomegranate Blackberry Iced Tea, and America’s Test Kitchen Best Summer Dessert recipes. See the contents below:
There are really no conditions for this giveaway. My hope, of course, is that this gift makes it into the hands of someone who simply can’t get a break this year and not someone who is heading to the Maldives or Bora Bora next week to stay in one of those little huts with glass floors sprawled across sparkling turquoise waters. But truly, if this gift brings a big smile to a single one of your faces that is quite enough for me.
So, please enter your name in the comments section if you could use a little sunshine in your world. We’ll do a random drawing and announce the winner at noon on this Thursday the 31st.
You are loved.
Melissa
I will be at home with 7 kids this summer 🙂
Would love to win this for a friend that could really use a getaway!
I’d love to win this! (of course, I’d also love to go to BoraBora, but that’s probably not happening until Jesus comes back!) – Faran H
Megan G
Thanks Melissa (et al!)
Lindsey Thomas
Hi Melissa,
My name is Jamison Price.
This is great!
Jonda Tippins
This looks amazing! I’m home most of the summer awaiting baby #4 coming in August!
What an awesome giveaway! Glad you and your Mr. had a nice vacay!
What fun! Enter me, please. I may get a weekend away with my hubby this summer. But it won’t be far from home, if we do.
Would so love to win this! Thanks for your generosity in doing the giveaway!
I would love any of the items in this giveaway. Right now, there is no giveaway for this busy Momma to Be, just lots of weekend road trips for baby showers and such.
Thank you so much for hosting such a great giveaway.
Heidi
I soooo need a getaway vacation, but it is not to be this year :(. This post makes me smile!!
I would so love to win this giveaway…I have no travel plans because my husband just started a new job (after being laid off for almost 2 years and myself being laid off) I am planning on my vacation consisting of spending time on my little deck with my flowers and my birds. Thank you so much for this great giveaway.
what wonderful thoughtfulness!!!
Oh my, all of this would be enough of a vacation for me! How sweet of you!
I am at home all summer with my five kids ages 7,6,4,2,&1. I could use a little me-time!
I really could use a little sunshine in my world. 🙂
Blessings
Maria
I LOVE pink nail polish! What a great idea!
I’d love some sunshine! I’m finishing teaching overseas on June 21st and moving back to Houston where I have a packed 5 weeks and start my new job on August 1st. While 5 weeks off may not seem like a bummer to some, I’m losing a full month of my normal break!
I would love to enter my name in the freebies! Karen Blackstone.
Such a sweet idea to treat someone who will be “staycationing” instead of vacationing this summer! That person would be my friend, Janet, who has experienced several years of struggles in her life. The thought of sending this package of sunshine to Janet brings a smile to my face. Thank you for this opportunity.
My newborn twins will keep us home from vacation this year. What a treat this would be!
What a lovely giveaway! Count me in =0)
This would be awesome!
Bless your heart for doing something sweet like this! May the winner (hopefully me) enjoy!
The items in the giveaway look so fun for summer:)
Would love to win! 2 babies under 2 make it hard for breaks sometimes but this would be a fabulous “retreat”!
OOH…it all looks so fabulous!
OK. You all are SERIOUS fun. Count me in. I’ll be taking care of my 92 year old mother in law all summer. Not complaining, its just a chapter in my life. In the meantime I have a STACK of books by my chair, not to mention many more in my iBooks. So I’m looking forward to reading MANY different kinds of things and doing The DANIEL bible study with my neighbor.
Bring it on!
Heidi
What a lovely assortment! Thanks for Doing this giveaway!
Brandi Davis
I need some of this sunshine!! I work 40+ hours, a mom to a very busy 5 yr old! I could use this when I lock myself in the bathroom!
What a wonderful and thoughtful idea!! At home this summer with a sick elderly parent and special needs sister in ICU!
What a fun giveawy — I would love to win! – Kathryn Randolph
Please enter my name.
I won’t be going on vacation this summer. Maybe this fall? There’s always hope, I guess. 🙂
Yes! I wanna win!
what a sweet giveaway…. it’s been a rough season…. could use a dose of sunshine. but I know lots of ladies here could… 🙂
-elaine kim
Oh how I would love this! Hubby has a new job (which we are sooooooo thankful for) that won’t allow us any vacation time for a while. This mama of 3 littles could use some staycation accessories. What a great idea by the way 🙂
Hello! I would love to have some or one of these treats please if you can send them over to the UK?
We have not had a holiday for almost 5 years ,and now because my husband is out of work and our old cottage urgently needs repairs, we won’t get chance this year other than a working weekend away with our church in June
Be blessed and thank you to all the Moore girls for their input into my life and across the pond!
Gilly
Absolutely we will send over the pond if you win, my dear!
I’d like my name entered. Amy Stabler. 🙂
You are so sweet – what a fun giveaway to kick off the summer!
Christina Dekker!
Peggy R. Thank you!
I definitely need a break this summer :).
What a fun summer goody bag!!
Crossing my fingers… ;]
Whitney Burger
Would be fantastic to win this! I’ll be at work all summer on a college campus!
This looks like a vacation in a bag! I need that! Whoever wins will be a lucky lady!
I would love to win this giveaway!!!
Michele Lenhart :0)