“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 could go for some of that tea right about now…. 🙂
Fun in the sun!!
What a lovely idea for sharing! Thanks for your thoughtfulness.
Umm…yes please!!! What a blessing this will be to someone like me who will be only dreaming of a vacation this summer. What an awesome gift!
Well, as I read this post I’m 39wks 2days pregnant with my second boy – my summer will most definitely be spent at home. I would love the smell of “beach” in the midst of diapers. 🙂
Wonderful giveaway!
Melissa- thanks!!! You described my summer and thanks for thinking of us. 🙂
Great idea! Summer is “beach” time even if you never get near the water!
I’m so glad God loves fun . Thankful He created it!
Please enter me in the draw, and thanks for the opportunity!!
Was it quiet there at the beach, Melissa? My vacation would be very, very, quiet. My real life is pretty loud.
Lisa Snyder in Montgomery, TX
Jenna Smith 🙂
Christina Schmitt
Beth Schmitt
What a sweet and wonderful idea! Blessings to you~
Hi
Thank you for offering such an awesome gift
Blessings
Hope your neck is better. 🙂
I’m right in the middle of moving- so YES I would love some relaxation goodies!!!
Thanks for the opportunity to participate! Blessings to you!
Oh, Oh, pick me, pick me! I just finished my EMT course while working full time and being a wife and Mom. Thanks for the encouragement.
Peace,
Kim Feth
Apex, NC
For this home educating mother of four, this sounds WONDERFUL!
What an awesome gift….a little bit of sunshine!!!
you had me at Bobbi Brown. i love her makeup. never tried the perfume. thanks for being so generous.
How fun!
Stephanie Bobo
Ogden, Utah
Sound like fun!! 🙂
I dream of getting to enjoy sun and sand. If I can’t go, I’d at least like to smell it! Thanks for this fun gift!
You can’t be mad at that sweet pup with a face like that!
Glad you had a wonderful vacation!
🙂 🙂 🙂
This is such a great give-away! Thanks for doing this!
How awesome! The beach is one of my favorite places to go, especially on the east coast–Ocean City, Cape May area. And I won’t be going there this summer….so thanks for putting a smile on my face, even if I don’t win.
Great summer fun!!I would love the prizes!!
Thanks
Sue Middeldorf
Thanks!!
Thanks for sharing!!
What a blessing to have the opportunity to receive such beautiful gift filled with all things summer & fun!
Have a Blessed Summer,
Lisa
Would love this! What a fun idea! Glad you got to get away! 🙂
I’d love to be the winner, not necessarily because I won’t get to the beach this year, but so that I might share the fun prizes with some others who I know who need a break more than I.
What a great giveaway, Melissa!!
Thank you for thinking of me.
Traci Rivard
Would love to win this fun summer package!
Hope your neck heals up soon, Melissa. I can’t imagine a stomach bug WITH a bad neck!
Thank you for the opportunity Melissa~!
Looove it!!! What a fab idea!!
Lovely gift, Melissa! I’m a children’s minister and so many people think our summers are so “relaxing” when in reality, they are twice as busy. Love those kids though and I’d have it no other way! Blessings to whoever get the gift! Dana Ray
my name is jenny hackney and this is my first time here. 🙂
Great giveaway!!!
Would love to win!
OH how wonderful for the one who wins this wonderful gift package…..
This would be such a lovely suprise! I picked up working full time this summer so my husband could quit his job and go back to school. I know it is for the greater good, but working night shift is not exactly what I had planned. Just a reminder that I am not in control.
This is so fun! Love it!
Thanks so much for the offer of summer give aways!