“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 have 5 kids under the age of 5!!! No vacation for me 🙂 This giveaway sounds glorious! Thanks for your thoughtfulness, Melissa!
Hoping to win, to regift to the most deserving person I know-(that won’t get to do all the things you mentioned ie. get-away to anywhere)
Wendi McPike.
How lovely and thoughtful! God Bless you!
Looking at a summer lay-off instead of vacation. Our family will be planning a “stay-cation” instead. I keep telling myself that things could always be worse and it keeps me grateful for what I have. A blessing journal also helps greatly. The give-a-way looks awesome and I’m sure will be a blessing to the one who receives it. Hope you’re feeling better !
Online college classes, Teaching VBS, Church-wide courageous study, AND remodeling our home is keeping me away from the beach until late July…I will be so ready by then:) Lovin what you love…count me in!
Robin Fretwell. Belmont, NC. Yay giveaway! Yay sunshine! Need a “getaway”!
So fun, thank you 🙂
PS. That puppy is adorable!
sounds like you had a fantastic trip, we have had warm weather here.
Those gifts would brighten this stay-at-home mom’s day! What a great gift for somebody!
I’m entering for a friend who deserves this: Cheryl Burns, Grand Rapids, MI
I lead the children’s ministry at our church and we moved out of our building last week to become a portable church. I will be spending the summer right at home, helping everyone learn to do portable church. Thanks for doing this giveaway!
The “beach-in-a-bottle” sounds FAB when I need a little spritz to escape to my HaPpy PLaCe.
You are so sweet and thoughtful to do this!
Judy Rowland Louisville, KY is where I live and Louisville, KY is where I will be on my vacation the first week of July! 🙂
Beach. yes, I could use some beach. Thank you.
Ann B., Harrison, OH
Oh! Pick me!!! No vacation for me this summer! :o(
What a sweet and thoughtful gift. I find great comfort and solace at the beach. I live in the desert of NM…no water here! Work will demand my summer this year. Thanks for offering a touch of the ocean. Hope you’re feeling better.
Love the pink nailpolish!
🙂 what a wonderful thoughtful gift:)
How fun!
What a fun giveaway! Thanks so much for sharing!
LOVE summer!!! What a wondrous giveaway!
Sounds like the perfect staycation! God bless.
I love the sunglasses!
What fun stuff! Thanks for doing this. It would be great to win.
We just bought our first house in Dec which sort of depleted our savings for the down payment so we will not be able to have any kind of summer vacation this year. However we do get to enjoy the blessing of our new home. Thanks for entering me in the drawing for the giveway, it’s a fabulous idea!
Enter me :-). What a fantastic giveaway.
What fun! I am loving me some summer!
What fun this is! I wish I had the opportunity to get away. Someday.
Ooo. that looks like so much fun. love the beach! 🙂
You guys are so thoughtful! Thank you for this opportunity. God bless!
Just looking at the gift bag brings a smile to my face. Would be nice to hide in my room light the candles and pretend to be at the beach 🙂
Thank you for such a fabulous little suprise! I dont want to be considered for it because I am already so blessed but I hope whoever recieves gift will share it with someone else who is needy! LPM is such a wonderful ministry! Thank you!
This is so nice!! I would love to be entered in! Thank you!!
Vacationing in the sun sounds great. No money means we will be staying home where it is cold and brown and summer seems a million years away.Thinking of all of you going somewhere warm and sunny. Enjoy
My entry for the beachy giveaway!
What a fun way to start the summer!!
Oh how fun:) My life revolves around two toddlers right now. Some nights after the boys go to bed my husband and I actually re-live our honeymoon and just talking about all the fun things we did somehow makes me feel like we have gotten away for a little bit:) I will tell you I long for the island again!!!!!
Thank you for even the dream that I could win this. I think the closest I will be getting to a beach this year will be putting my feet in a sandbox.
Such a pretty package.Love the bag.
Isn’t it great to be part of a “community” that is so real!? Love the great stuff…happy summer days to all.
Beautiful gifts just like the heart of LPM!
What a fun give-away and so thoughtful. We like to take mini-vacay’s during the summer to places close by – so no beach for us. Although, digging my toes in the sand sounds really fabulous.
What fun! Thanks. Deanna Hoffmann.
What a sweet giveaway!
I haven’t been on a vacation in years, my husband never wanted to go anywhere. We are currently separated at the moment so I struggle to pay the bills by myself, hopefully one day I will be able to save money when I move into a 2 bedroom apt with a sweet friend that I met at church. The very first place I want to go too is the beach! You are a sweet person, just like your mom! I love y’all both! Have a blessed day!
I need a little sunshine and pick me up in my life!
Enter me too please
Please enter me for the drawing.
Well, I feel more relaxed just by looking at the picture of all those goodies. Maybe if I don’t win, I could just look at the picture every day… – Megan Barr