“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
Like the give-away idea, and the thoughts behind it. I love your favorite thing summer package. Your favorite things would give Maria from Sound of Music an entire new verse.
Bless
Tamara
This looks lovely. I would so love to own it!:D
What a great package! I am one of those who gets to stay in town over the summer. I’m house/dog/and various other animal sitting for a couple of different friends and hosting another friend’s getaway. Busy summer for me. 🙂
What a fun and girly giveaway! Thanks for the chance to enter! 🙂
A Beach goodie give-a-way? Yes please!
Sharilyn Ross
136 Orcutt View Court
Orcutt, CA 93455
I truly love you gals…blessings in buckets to yous!! I so look forward to the supper prepared for us one day…I’ll be looking for you Melissa and Beth to hug such a hug on yous…
Deborah
What great gifts! Thanks!
Cathy Holland
Very thoughtful – thank you so much!!
Thank you so much for thinking of us house-bound siestas. Such wonderful goodies !!!
Oh, how fun!
How Fun! Thanks.
Needs a little beach! 😉
Drawing entry
Thanks for being willing to give away these awesome things. I would really love it! Put my name in your drawing.
Please enter me in the drawing
How thoughtful of you to share some of your favorite things! I could really use a pick-me-up, and this would do the trick, for sure.
This is awesome. I would love this.
Fun! Thanks for the chance to win!
Amy G.
This looks lovely. Thanks .
Hi Melissa,
It’s great to hear from you…but sorry about the bug and the crick….bummer. I am throwing my name in the hat. 🙂
Thank you for having a fun drawing!
I’ll be home this summer!
I seriously could use a vacation but it’s not in the cards for us this year. Instead we will stick close to home where we are needed the most at this time. Love your blog! It lifts me when I need it.
Much Love,
Tammy
No vacation for me— I want a goody !
Thanks for the chance!
Hope I win! Thanks so much!
What a thoughtful giveaway! As a student who is going to be stuck at the computer all summer writing my master’s thesis, this giveaway would be a true blessing. Thank you for your generosity towards the Siesta community:)
A little sunshine is always welcome and needed in my heart. Thank you!
What a lovely giveaway! I would lve to win
This is beautiful. The whole thing.
Thank you for being such a blessing!!!!!! Awesome!!!
Could really use a little summer sunshine! Haven’t had a vacation in years. Happy summer.
How sweet of you. Thank you!
You’ve got some great taste! Thank you for thinking of others.
… thank you! … this gift plus your thoughtfulness in gifting it bring a big smile to my face! … blessings! …
I live in Alaska where the population triples in the summer. We work twice as hard in the summer time.
Thank you for thinking of us!!! Too sweet.
My entire summer consists of my unselfish devotion to my 14 year old AAU Basketball Player Son. I will be sitting in hot smelly gyms day after day watching my son make it to the next level, or getting smashed to the ground by a boy twice his size that failed 9th grade 3 times and is still in 9th grade (they call those boy’s ie men Grade Exceptions). So any kind of sunshine ie freshener would be a delight to my vacation of the stars in Billy Bob’s Gym of Stink here in Florida. Even the gym are in remote ho dunk towns.
Would love this beach vacation package! Thank you for giving it away.
I am hoping I get this awesome gift. I will block off a day and pretend I am on vacation.
Thank you for bringing wonderful beach memories to mind through your post today! Made me wish I was sitting on Mansion Beach on Block Island … time seems to stand still when we are there! Share such good family time there and just calms my soul! Could use a little of that now 🙂
How fun is this. Thank you.
Marty Jewell. Thank you!
What a wonderful way to pamper someone1I’m going to check that perfume out asap!
What a wonderful way to pamper someone! I’m going to check that perfume out asap!
I would love to win this giveaway! I am celebrating 10 years of marriage to my amazing husband, and this would be great for both of us! 🙂
What a wonderful give-away!! Thank you for sharing the sweetness of summer!!
Great giveaway! Thanks!
What a fun idea!
Kelli Michaelsen
Madison,MS