“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
What a wonderful gift of love and fun for someone! My honey lost his job last October so no fun trips for us.
It sounds really good!
No beach for this Beach Girl this summer. I’d love to win this!!
I would love to win!
Please enter me for the give away.
LOVE LOVE this! What an amazing gift…already thinking of many who I could give this to! What a blessing &wonderful way to welcome summer….especially coming from one who didn’t,t want to spend too much on buying herself two bottles of perfume! This much too kind…blessings to you and thank you for your thoughtfulness!
YAY !!!! Beach!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow!!! What a fun gift…
My summer will be spent at home with my children.
No Bora Bora here!! Y’all are sweet to scatter beach-y blessings on us….thanks much!
Please enter me!
I’d love to win these items! Thanks for offering them up!
Throwing my name in the hat! This giveaway idea has already made me smile…thanks for sharing the sunshine and being a light in this world!
This is a great giveaway! No beach for us this year, doesnt help that there isn’t one nearby in landlocked Lubbock!
Thank you for sharing the summer love. That is very kind.
How precious of you! I am babysitting grand babies!
Nicole B.
Saving for a beach vacation!
This would make it seem sooner than later!
Such a sweet treat!!
What a wonderful giveaway!
We have the same heart . I have recently been doing fun quizzes at work with a give away .. Like movies with most sequals .. Like you I delight in the giving. Hope it’s me but if not praying that it will go to someone who is tickled to their pink toes . Be blessed
Glad you were able to get away. I am one of those who will not be able too. But the gift looks lovely. Thank you for having some fun here with us.
My summer will be driving my 4 boys around town to various baseball games/practices. Would love to win this “getaway”.
So cute!
Hey, thanks for thinking of us. You r loved!
I really want to win!!!!!!!!!
What a fun idea! Thanks! Pam Koth
Those look great! That was very thoughtful! I hope you feel better!
OOh..OOHH…PICK me!!!
How sweet, always taking care of others. You are a blessin.
Thanks for sharing.
How exciting…but what a bummer for the end of a great time!! Thanks for the opportunity! 😉 MS
Call me crazy, but the Moleskine notebooks would be an incredible, much-appreciated gift. 🙂
Hi Melissa,
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the beach…your items are so cute! Thank you so much for the random post/give away.
I’m so glad you were able to get away and enjoy the beach; hope your neck feels better soon.
Just beachy…Joni
Count me in!
Kay
What an awesome mixture of items!! Thanks for thinking of us!! ❤❤❤
Oh, how sweet of you to think of all of us that are dreaming of the beach & are so very far from it. Such a lovely thoughtful giveaway. You, too, are loved!
What a blessing you are!! Thanks:)
I love the things you love! How fun and thanks so much for being so giving!!!
Awww…what a neat idea!
We’re taking a working vacation this summer with my in-laws to go to market and order inventory for their store. There will be a day or two of play, but the 24 hour drive one way and spending the time on my feet in the heat & humidity while in my second trimester of pregnancy hardly seems like a vacation!
What a fun gift! If I were to win this gift I would actually give it to my dear friend Marina. She is a woman who can definitely benefit from others showing her the love of Christ!
This is such a fabulous idea…thank you for such thoughtfulness and for being a blessing in the lives of so many! <3 Jenna
So cool – trying not to let Facebook make me envious of all the places I will not go this summer!! Thanks for thinking of those of us stuck at home for whatever reasons.
Enter me, sounds so fun and refreshing!
In HIM<
Karen in AZ
Two of my favorite things: summer and the beach. What a fabulous giveaway! Thanks for encouraging women of every age!
Oh how I would have loved to be on the beach too! My favorite thing to do…so blessed to know you brought a “piece” of your time back to share with us! I know that whomever is chosen will enjoy ever moment of it!
Ashley in Colorado would LOVE to win that ah-mazing little summer package! 😉 Here’s to a beautiful, blessed summer for all!
That is an awesome gift pack!!!
Dear Melissa,
How very sweet of you to think of some of us who will have no break this summer!!!
I am one who will not. Our 38 yr old son who has lived with us all his life and suffers from stroke like migraine headaches becuz of cranial radiation 30 yrs ago fo rcancer had some bad clonic tonic siezures a couple of months ago and spent a month in our local hospital and one week in Rochester MN. He is home now but is beginning to read again and learn to write his name. He has permanent disabilities and I have to take him 40 miles to a therapy center three days a week this summer so he can get speech therapy. My sister is undergoing 6 weeks of radiation for her breast cancer and can use some help too plus we have a minister moving in and have to get a house ready!!It is so busy I do need a break from all this. I would love this little gift and would share it with others I am helping or who are helping me! Love! Betty M
Fun!