“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
First, allow me to remember my manners: Thank you. This is awesome and so generous. Now, on to the real reason I’m here: Me! Me! Pick me!
Ok I sooo wanna go to the
BeaCh, next best thing!
What a great idea. Aviators are especially nice.
Karen here! What a fantastic thing to do. Thank you all for what you do every day. Such a nice give-away!
yay!! looks so fun!
yes, please!!!
Sherri Smith —
Would LOVE to win this. Dealing with moving across the country with a 2 month old and then settling in a whole new area. Would LOVE this because it will be a long while until I can go on a vacation!
This would be so wonderful to get!
Very thoughtful – thanks!
How fun! If I win I will keep one thing for myself and share the rest with some well deserving ladies around me. Thanks for the cute giveaway.
Melissa,
This is so much fun, and you are a doll to do It! I sure hope you are fully recovered from the stomach bug and sore neck! I am glad you had a wonderful rest in Mexico.
Tammy
<3
My vacation plans went away as my daughter is getting married!!!
Oh…. I would love to win this!! Thanks for having the contest!
I can assure you I won’t be visiting Bora Bora anytime soon! But I would love this treat 🙂
Sarah Baggett
Thank you so much! I always enjoy this blog!!
I would love everything listed! 🙂 Thank you for offering these wonderful gifts!
Oh my goodness, what a great idea!!!!! Thanks so much for offering!!!
Wendi Case 🙂
I was just lamenting earlier this week that I had not been on a vacation (not even a long weekend, folks) in 14 years. Fourteen years. I don’t like to make a habit of whining, especially considering how tremendously blessed I am, but dang it all, I miss the beach so bad I can hardly see straight! Of course, my husband and I chose to have three precious children instead, so I can in NO WAY complain. But I am going to be totally indulgent and enter this giveaway anyway. Woohoo! Thank you, Melissa!!!
Love this!
Joy Peterson
I so long for the beach. I am a beach bum at heart. You are so sweet to do this giveaway. What a treat! I hope my name is drawn.
Sounds Amazing –
Jennifer Russell
Sounds great!!
What a wonderful thing to do! I would love to win for my dear friend and sister in Christ, Dawn Smith, who is completing her first 12 rounds of chemo and starting her next 12 weeks of treatment on June 8th.
Id love to win this awesome package!
All this looks lovely! Hope I win this little vacay package since I’m one of the ones that cannot go anywhere this summer!
Emily Everling
Sounds awesome…thanks so much!
Tired teacher here. No big trip planned this summer….but happy with just full time Mommying. I can’t wait! 🙂
Wow…that would be wonderful. With a new baby, we will not be going on any vacations this year!
Oh! Sunshine! Yay!
I’m not headed to Bora Bora that’s for sure:). In fact, I started a full time position in children’s ministry three weeks ago and next week is our version of VBS. So I am feeling a little less beach and a little more swamped but if I win, maybe the beach will at least come inhabit the swamp? I can dream. So glad you had a great vacay!
What a fun giveaway!
If I won I would share ,I promise!,,,,
How sweet of you to share! I’m going to look for that perfume ASAP.
Such an awesome opportunity! Thank you. This momma won’t be seeing the beach for a looong while. This would make my “staycation” lots more fun 🙂
I would love a little something here! My husband and I work at a summer camp/retreat center, so no summer vacation for us. That’s okay though, we vaction in the spring/fall. we have been to the Riveria Maya…oh how I loved that. Thank you for this post!
It was fun just looking at the ‘giveaway stuff’!! Hope!
Oh, what fun! And really, who couldn’t use a little sunshine in their world? : )
I could REALLY use this.
How exciting and so very thoughtful! Enjoy your summer!
Thanks for making me smile on a tropical storm drenched day!
Love it!
What a neat thing to do!!!
Oh how fun!!! Thank you so much Melissa!!
Need. the. beach. badly. ; ) Glad you had a great time!!
I’d LOVE this treat! We won’t be taking a vacation…with a new baby & a husband in seminary, vacations are a thing of the past!
This would be the perfect summer treat!
This sounds sublime 😉
Kasey O’Connor
Sounds wonderful!
Laura Moore 🙂
Breanna Smith-Sneed 🙂
Thanks so much!