“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
35 weeks pregnant… Would love an “at home get-away”! Thank you for offering this sweet friend!
How nice! Thanks!
Swimming with a dolphin…what fun!!
Oh, the beach is my favorite place… but not my husband’s… so we don’t go near as often as I would like. We just don’t vacation much anyway… we joke that we own a business therefore we don’t vacation – the job is the vacation! So glad you were able to get away and relax!
Seddy Bear
I could use a little sunshine! I will be home this summer waiting on twin grandbabies to arrive!
Oh my gosh. This sounds like a little slice of heaven. It’s been a busy spring, and will be an even busier summer, and I get tired just thinking that there isn’t a break in sight. God must have whispered in your ear “Be a blessing to someone”. Thank you for even the thought of winning this summer-ish giveaway!!
Thank you.
this would definitely brighten my day and summer
Yes Please! 🙂
Love giveaways and the beach!
What a sweet idea! My birthday is Thursday, so that’d be a great surprise ☺
Spending my summer moving!
Sheila allison
Oh, for a trip to the beach. Would LOVE a faux beach experience. 🙂
What fun! The giveaway, not the bug and crick which, by the way, I find to be a hilarious word that made me smile and think of my Granny. 🙂
This would be a wonderful gift to have since I am not going anywhere this summer. I can bring summer to me with your wonderful gift basket! 🙂
How lovely!
Please enter me! My vacation will be spent following my husband across the country to training, he is in the air force, and it will end as my boys and I say goodbye and he goes to Afghanistan. What a sweet idea! I know whoever gets this will be blessed by your kindness!
Definitely among those needing a fabulous break!—Melissa Thacker
What a thoughtful and wonderfully spontaneous idea! I love it! I know it has cheered many ladies and brought many smiles just witnessing the kindness and generosity you have shared! Thanks Melissa!
Please enter my name. Thanks!
I will be working away in our ministry here in Fukuoka, Japan. We have a missions team coming for two weeks in July. Going to try to start a park ministry at that time. No beaches or vacation for us!!!
I’m wondering what Thursday will bring into my life….maybe, as always, something unexpected! N.
Well, I’d really love to win this because 1. I like to win things. 2. I love y’all too. The end.
I am one of the full-time moms who goes into overtime action during the summer: activity coordinator, chauffeur, specila order chef, complaints department, laundromat and summer reading program warden. Under paid and under cover as a super model, ie., role model for two wonderful teens and an adopted 20 something new daughter in the LORD. Could I use something to smell good, make me laugh and look cool in Hot-lanta, GA? You betcha!
Hey LP Sieatas!
What God is doing here is simply beautiful. Thank you for allowing Him to work through you. I am consistently blessed by His Spirit and His heart here and beyond.
K, so I read this post by Melissa and the one below is by Momma B. Good stuff. Relevant stuff where Momma B is concerned. I have had two years of something that sounds very similar.
It would be fun and simply a fresh breath to play along with Melissa’s invitation. There is much to say about this current season as it seems to have two parts. But I’ll spare you all, simply saying it has been excruciating. But God.
Thank you for the fun opportunity.
Blessings to y’all!
Summer fun!
What an amazing giveaway for some well needed pampering and rest! God gives rest and peace to those who meet and chat with him daily…those moleskin notebooks are calling my name. Even if there’s no winning for this girl, you’ve inspired me to get some essential items for it to feel like a summer island getaway, right in my own world. Mmm…I love building Sandcastles. 🙂
Just the thought of it all made me smile. 🙂
We’re trying to be responsible and pay off our car…no beach for me:( Being responsible is not always fun. LOL
Ohh.. I would love a little sunshine! What a fun idea! Let summer begin…
Ooh what a fantastic giveaway! Please enter me 🙂
Awesome gift! As a mom to 4, one of whom is a newbie, and a farmer hubby in the middle of planting season…no-we won’t be heading anywhere this summer! Thanks for all you do at LP!!
What an awesome and thoughtful thing for you to do this!
That collection looks wonderful! No sand in my summer, although looks like those things would remind me of a lovely beach vacation. I completed the study of James this spring and loved it! I really enjoyed your input and the opening videos of you and your mom. The depth of knowledge between the 2 of you is pretty amazing. Reminds me of my mom.
Sounds relaxing! Thank you!
My name is Reggie Rindels. But, actually, I have two friends who could use a smile. Neither can seem to catch a break this year. Their names are Angie Pairan and Heather Wind.
Nice 🙂
Summer for us will be finishing up raising the support we need to serve in Nicaragua, packing to leave, saying our goodbyes and beginning language school in Costa Rica in early September!
So cute!
Awesome! Id like to be entered!
What a wonderful idea! Isn’t it nice to be able to make someone’s heart smile!!
Donna Prakas.
What a fun giveaway! We are hoping summer is here in Southern California! Eighty-two degrees today and beautiful, just trying to enjoy and be thankful! May the person who wins be thoroughly blessed! 🙂
How thoughtful! Putting my name in, in honor of my friend who is a single mom scraping every penny she can to provide for her daughters!
Darling idea!!!
What a wonderful treat! Thank you Melissa!!
Husband got home from Iraq and is still out of work, so we will be sticking it out at home in Houston this summer– hot like the beach 😉 but without the cushy sand and cool salt water.
What a sweet idea!