“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
Go ahead…make my summer…draw my name! : ) What a fabulous gift pack…would make anyone smile! Thank you, Melissa and I hope the stomach and neck are better by now.
I know exactly who I’ll give it to!
Joni Cline
How fun, and we cannot go anywhere this summer, medical junk for our children, but we are totally trying to make the best of it!
I am in need of a little TLC, so I wanted to put my name in for this..It doesn’t matter one way or the other, because it is realized God will have the actual control on who needs the encouragement!!!
Love you guys!!
How F U N!
And T H A N K – Y O U!
Susan Cannon
Longwood, Florida
oh my what a wonderful give away! That dog cracks me up, what a cutie! So glad you had some refreshment, so sorry you had the bad yucky when you returned!
So fun:)!!!!
Summer….take me away!
Lynn Crowe.
Great idea for a gift give-a-way.
This is the part where I enter into this amazing giveaway 🙂
Emilee Clemons
There are no plans for the Maldives or Bora Bora for me this summer. I’d rather escape to the Mountains anyway. But there will be none of that either.
And Thursday the 31st is my birthday. 😀
Wow! This will bless someone’s sandles off!
Lisa Krumm
As so many of my friends are going to or live at the beach, this would be the only way I could join them!! At least I could have adorable toes while I watch my 12 yr old play softball in the TN heat!! 🙂
Angela
Wow, what a great summer treat!
Thanks!
Amanda M.
What a fabulous giveaway!
This is such a fun giveaway! A little three month old bundle of love will be keeping us home this summer…hopefully next year she will be ready to catch some rays on the beach! 🙂
What a cute contest! I love this idea!
Becca King
Looooove those shades, thanks for the chance!:)
Is that the sea calling?
Kathleen M
Hi Melissa!
I am a mother of two beautiful boys 4 and 7 and we are not going anywhere this summer. We will be spending it in the back yard in our kiddie pool and swing set. 🙂
Oooo, the beach… sounds like a great pick me up!
Jessica
Carol Bruntlett
I could so use a vacation to the beach but haven’t taken anytime in about 10 yrs.
So I could really smell the beach in my life
Thank you for your post
Thank you for loving us women so well
Looking forward to smelling some beach
Carol
how fun! Thank you for the giveaway! This would be delightful to win!! happy day Moore girls!!
How generous!!!!! What a blessing it will be!
Thank you,
Melissa Trivett
You are a doll! What a thoughtful thing to do.
Throwing my name in the hat with reckless abandon!! 🙂
WAY FUN!!!! Thanks for a spur of the moment, let’s have some fun giveaway. Puts a smile in my heart for whomever the Lord gives it to!!
Jariza Laubach
Vacation? What is that?
Yay for summer, and for giveaways!
What a wonderfully fun idea! I went to Myrtle Beach about a month ago. Oceans/beaches – my favorite places in all of God’s creation!
I pray that all of my siestas get to travel to their favorite place this year. God provided four days for my family – a gift from Him through a sweet sister in Christ. And because I was afraid my car wouldn’t make it, another sweet sister loaned me her really nice new vehicle. We had so much fun!
Please don’t enter me in the giveaway…I just wanted to express my gratitude to those two sweet sisters who helped us out so much!
Thanks for all you do at LPM! Love you all!
Fun Stuff!
What a fun giveaway! Thanks for this chance for a glimps into a beach getaway!!!
Last beach vacation was more years ago than I can remember… decades 🙂
Oh my that looks like Summer in a tote! Yes, please!
Tricia Chapman.
Such a fun giveaway! Would love to vacation somewhere tropical this summer…but it looks like home (Dallas area) will have to suffice.
How fun…would love to win. I was just feeling sorry for myself because it doesn’t look like we will get to take a vacation this year!
What glorious goodies! And how kind of you to put them together for some desparate soul! 🙂
Home all summer.
What a wonderful give-away! So thoughtful…if I’m blessed to win I will definitely share with my 2 sweet daughters! Thank you Melissa
Exotic vacation get-away. Yes, please.
However, I’ll settle for a really cool bag of goodies!
What a fun prize to win!!!!!
I will not be going away!! $$$ is the biggest reason and then there are three grandchildren that I watch. I also homeschool them for my daughter….and this teacher does NOT get the summer off. I wish I lived in Houston and not up here in No MI so I could go to Beth’s studies. Just finished one of hers on the Holy Spirit. Blessed out of my socks, if I wore them!!!! 🙂
Blessings to all of you!!
Georgia
Carol Crabtree
Tami Beaty
Mindi Z.
pick me! pick me!
Ginger B.
Paragould, Arkansas
Praying that God smiles down on me and I win this little bag of goodies….definitely no summer break for me 🙁 BUT, I’m certain this would put a little spring in my step 🙂
🙂
You all are absolutely precious!
Susan