“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
Thank you. What a fun drawing . Even the participation is a bright light in my day.
Love!
What a FUN giveaway. I have just the person for it.
You’re so fun! I loved just LOOKING at the stuff, so if I’m the lucky winner I know I’ll thoroughly enjoy it. Good luck, everyone! Thanks, Melissa. Hope you’re feeling back to normal again.
What a fabulous give-a-way! Please enter me in the drawing!
Not going anywhere, no break or getaway for me. Would love to win. Thanks for doing this.
Yes, I would love this, no vacation planned for me at all this year!
Sounds good to me! Sharon DuBois
I would give this to my mom! She has a lot going on!
Love! Except I do not cook, so I would gift the cookbook to someone who would love it. (If that helps my random chances 🙂
This looks like SUMMER FUN!!!! OH just to smell the beach……
What a glorious picture that made me smile! Do you think these things could help make 2 summer youth camps FEEL like I’m at the beach??! LOL
So fun! I LOVE me some raybans!!
I love this bag, makes me long for a week at the beach!!
Perfect! A package of sunshine!! You all are so sweet!
oh my gracious… to breathe the beach… thanks you…!!
What a lovely idea. I am having hip replacement surgery so no getaway for a while.
Would love some extra sunshine!!
Jennfier Clark
Yay!
Sarah Jenkins
How Fun!
Leila Castro, Orlando, FL
Bethany Lee
I love the beach! It’s my favorite place to go!
I would put on my sunglasses, spray on my perfume, prop up my freshly painted toes, light my candle and sip my tea…in my living room. (Which is currently just a bunch of sheet rock at the moment.) Paradise. 🙂
Would LOVE to win this – the nail polish and super chic aviator shades make my summertime-loving heart swoon!
Would love this gift, as we are stuck in HOT Phoenix all summer (and a little beach would go a long way….)! Please enter me in the drawing! 🙂
Summer is my husband’s busiest season of the year with his work, so going to a beach or anywhere fun is out. of. the. question for us. A few summer-time fun things would sure be a blessing in my world.
I would love to win this package. I’ve been caring for my father who had liver cancer for the last year and he passed away a couple of months ago. Still finding my footing.
Tami Fite – South Dakota
What a delightful bag of goodies. Enter me in the drawing, pretty please!
What a sweet idea!!! Love the Beach theme 🙂
Yes, indeed, I could use a little sunshine in my life … mostly because of the four little “sunshines” in my life. 🙂
I haven’t been on any kind of vacation for over 4 years! Just can’t afford it. I would LOVE LOVE LOVE a mini-vacation in a box!! I am only 2 hours from the beach but with gas prices the way they are etc etc I don’t get over there. How SUPER sweet of you to even think of this for some lucky girl!!
What I’d like to do is submit my dear sister’s name … however, not sure how that would work. So, I shall enter this myself and if it does drop on my name (the random drawing) than it will make my sister, Sheri, smile. She has had a life of many ups and downs and very very few vacations … it would be perfect!! thanks for offering to bless some soul through this — the Lord knows exactly who needs it!!
A baby born last week and 3 other children under the age of 5, no rest for the weary this summer, so this giveaway sounds fantastic!!!!
Love it! Moving from California to Idaho several years ago has made it much more difficult for my family to get to the beach. 🙂
Nancy Carpenter
Your favorite things sound like a wonderful getaway retreat at home. Thank the Lord he gives rest for the weary and hope for the future. Thank you for the opportunity to participate.
Blessings! Amy McLeod
What a wonderful thought. Thank you for thinking of us who will not be on sandy beaches this summer.
Oh and a few years ago my wonderful puppy ate my prescription glasses after only having them for a week. So for a year I walked around with puppy teeth marks and scratches on my glasses. 🙂
Great idea. I’ll be one of those people…sweltering in Houston this summer.
Sandy Corbin
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Thanks for the thought behind this giveaway. My name is Andrea Golby
Oh, if you only knew how much I need a ‘getaway’ right now, even if only in my dreams and a freebie giveaway. Thanks for doing this!
Dora Chatam
What a sweet, wonderful thing to do! It’s so like you to think of others! So sorry to hear about a less than fun return home, but glad you had a great vacation! No vacations for me this summer though I’m not complaining! I would however love to win that gift set! It looks amazing!
Melissa I am sorry to hear you had to come home to something that gave a shadow on a good trip. May God give you rest.
How sweet!
What a nice thing to do! Blessings!
What a good summery idea……..I hope I win !!
Thanks for the fun diversion! 🙂
4 kids + 1 income + 1 seminary student = no summer vacation for us lol!!
Used to live close to the beach. Now we do not. 🙁
What a great giveaway!!
I am submitting this for my mother who has not been on a vacation in years and lives too far away for me to spoil her as much as I would like.
Awesome stuff!!!
Wow!! That looks absolutely wonderful!! 🙂