“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
This sounds wonderful! So many of my favorite things!
What a wonderful give away! I’d love to pretend I’m at the beach this summer. I’ll be spending my summer getting ready for a cross country move.
I love Summer and the beach! Bring on the Sunshine!
So fun!
Allyson Neighbors
Wow, thanks. We live and serve God in Las Vegas and we are not going anywhere this summer. Please enter me: Leticia Pitts
Looking forward to spending the summer with my kiddos, even if it’s not in one of those glass floored hits in Bora Bora.
fUn! FuN! fUn! i love summer 🙂
Oh, how neat! I love giveaways just for the fun 🙂 Happy Summer! 🙂
What a wonderful, fun idea!! Thank you!
The perfume sounds wonderful…as does everything else too!
My little family of three is already off somewhere…Zambia! We moved here just two months ago with the ministry we work with and my husband and I were just talking the other day about “oh how awesome a beach vacay would be!”. Fun post!
I LOVE sunshine!! Thanks for the chance to bring a little bit home.
🙂 Luuvvv this!! 🙂
I would like to win this for my good friend Kay who is battling Non Hodgkins Lymphoma..
Pink polish how fun. Pink toes? I hope to go camping this summer sometime in between Roy’s conferences and classes.
How fun!
First summer with my precious baby! What a fun idea:)
No vacation for me this year! 🙁 Hopefully next summer!
I love summer! Great giveaway!
What a great giveaway!!!!
How fun! What an amazing giveaway!! Well, since my birthday is in June I would love to have these to kickstart my summer. Thanks LPM, you’re so sweet.
How sweet!
FUN! Love this.
yeah for summer!
This is lovely! Hope I win : )
Ky
would love all of these things! Homeschool Mama of 4 (with baby #5 on the way). I love my kiddos, but no lounging around on beaches for me! 🙂
Bev Warnock
Cadillac, Mi
What a great giveaway!!
no beach vacation for us this year. what a fun giveaway!
cindy
What a nice thing to do. No summer vacation for us this year!
I’m headed to Haiti on a mission trip!
We are definitely not going to Bora Bora… try small town in Canada, camping, 3 kids 5 and under – one of whom forgot how to sleep through the night! What a lovely giveaway… If I can’t win I hope it goes to another tired mom!
Adorable!!
Nicki Sitlinger would love this package and would definately share with others
Thank you in advance if I win.
Bless you Dawn
My vacation will be staying home for the birth of my first grandchild…..Callie Grace! Happy summer 🙂
No vacay’s for us this year! We made the decision that I will become a “stay at home Mom” to our 11 month old and now we are pinching the pennies. But, I wouldn’t trade it for anything (even a beach trip!)
I hope you are feeling better, Melissa. As if coming back from vacation isn’t hard enough, to come home and get sick right away is a double bummer. My summer will be spent hanging out here at home with my three little ones. How wonderful it would be to be blessed with your goodies to give me the feeling of a vacation here at home. Thanks for the chance to win!
You are wonderful! I could USE this in my life! 🙂
I would love to pretend i’m at the beach while studying in grad school!
Natalie Clemmer…could use some SonShine 🙂
Rita Maxwell
Such a sweet idea to give a break in a bag to someone who won’t get a break. That’s definitely how I feel. A summer program between semesters does not leave a lot of time for summer!
Ooooh….delightful. Leanne Cody
What a fun thing–you guys really rock!!!
oohh, looks like pampering time.
What a blessing for whoever wins! Thanks!!
What a lovely reason for a giveaway….to bless one who is unable to have a retreat, and for a smile on someone’s face.
Hey Melissa,
You Moore women are just too special. As an elderly Siesta from Northern California, I wish I could go some place special this summer. However, if I could, I probably wouldn’t be able to walk when I got there.
Fun stuff!! Blessings
WOW! Everything sounds wonderful! How thoughtful 🙂
I love all things the beach! Seriously, someone makes a parfum that smells of the essence du ocean? Do tell.