“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
Oh yay! I’m excited!
Gee thanks! I love prizes. 🙂 I was born on the beach and now live in Colorado. Your prize package just makes me feel like summer! I love you girls!
Fabulous. No break here 🙁 These would really make me smile, just like all of you do!
Ministry has sure kept us on our toes lately…so making them pretty in pink would be fun!
How wonderful!!
This would be awesome to get. I’m getting a little jealous of my husband, brother and sister-in-law…. none of whom will be working this summer. I will be the only one working, while they enjoy my new 3 month old baby girl, and new due any day nephew. 🙁
And we aren’t able to take a vacation this summer since my husband isn’t working right now (he’s in school).
What a fun collection!
Awesome idea!!!!!!!!
I can think of many friends and family members that would be blessed by this!
Would so love to WIN this. My 10th Anniversary is coming up and this WOULD so add some SUNSHINE !!! Love this Blog & Thank U so Much for being a Blessing!!
Well isn’t that beautiful! 🙂
I’m smiling big just at this idea of yours….and also at the chance of winning. Love it! Thanks, Melissa!
how fun!!! oh boy oh boy oh boy!!!!!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Oh my goodness….looks fantastic. What’s a vacation?!? 🙂 Thankful for my work and family….someday….!!!
Sounds amazing!
Tabitha.
I would love a chance to win the goodies! It’s been a long year so far and could use something to cheer me up!
What a lovely giveaway !! Thanks !!
How fun!
Sounds so delightful ….I would take this kind of vacation 🙂
What a fun giveaway! No beach for me this summer…this is my husband’s busy season, so I’m busy working as well. Thanks for being so thoughtful:) Devon
This homeschool mom of four could really use this 🙂
Oh my! This IS a fun basket!
Margee Thomas…………brings a smile to me
🙂
I wish I was going to Bora Bora! I guess I could pretend!
My husband was laid off last week and I am a stay at home mom. I do work a very part time job as a preschool teacher but the funds are very limited. This package would be amazing as you can imagine we will not be taking any kind of vacation this summer. Oh and we’re also trying to sell our old house still so we’re paying rent on our current home and mortgage on our old home. This basket would be such a blessing!
What a fabulous giveaway!! Thanks!
where on earth can i get a bright yellow moleskin?! they are my fav journals, but i’ve never seen a yellow one!!!! i’m entering this for my mom (: she lives in a tropical & exotic place but doesn’t have much of a chance to relax. (she’s a missionary)
Looks amazing!!!
I love this!! and love the polish!!
Thanks for doing fun things like this! I work at a library, where it gets busier in the summer because we welcome all the kids who are out of school to come here for summer reading. Such fun!
Woo Hoo! Love it!
How fun!!
I’m imagining the beach right now as I sweat in this Texas heat! My sixth child will arrive in 2 weeks, so no beach this year for our family!
Cindy Rader
Fun!
Mine??? 😉
Sounds wonderful! Will be stuck at home this summer preparing to send my third child off to college in the Fall.
Amy Currie
Bliss!!!!!
Kristen Evans! 🙂
Ann Hoffmeyer
What I wouldn’t give for Bora Bora 😉 Swimming at the neighbor’s pool will have to do 🙂
Best idea ever! Cannot tell you how much I hope my name is drawn!! Thank you so much for doing this! 🙂
Sheila Essen ^j^
ooh!! How fabulous! I will be going to no exotic island this summer, that is for sure! Rather, we’re very involved in a church plant (had its inauguration service THIS Sunday, praise God), and studying and working hard! And bein’ a momma and wife too! Your vacation sounds heavenly!
YAY! I could definitely use some beach in a bottle. I’m sure it’ll take playtime at the water table to a whole new level!
Thanks Melissa! You are too sweet! Blessings, Carley Stevenson
Oh this looks so amazing!
This would be amazing!!!! I am praying for some awesome relaxation this summer, but it just isn’t going o happen this year! So blessed to get the chance to enter for something so fun!!!
This summer, I will be “off-work” staying home with my precious newborn!! 🙂
What an awesome summer goody bag!!
Oh yes please! I could use this for a moment of relaxation among all the craziness that four kiddos brings. (: