“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 am definitely not going anywhere exotic this summer! And I go to church with Professor Thornbury:)
What a lovely give-a-way!
I am going to the beach for a week this summer but all of the “gifts” sound fabulous!! Any way to have the smell of the beach all the time is a great thing!
What a lovely treat!
What a lovely giveaway! Pick me, Haley Moody! 🙂
Oh what fun! Needing some sunshine this summer! Blessings to you!
Looking for some sunshine 🙂 Thanks for always being a blessing to the body of Christ.
Pick me! Pick me! :o)
so fun!!
so amazing! makes my heart happy, and makes me dream of one day when we will get to go to a place these things remind me of!
What a nice way to brighten some lucky someone’s summer.
Thanks for all y’all do for your siestas.
Thank you for the thoughtfulness of this giveaway. I am thinking of so many who do not have the opportunity to getaway when everything in us wants too. Praise the Lord for your opportunity to go and peaceful rest for those of us who cannot 🙂
Looks fantastic! Very encouraging! 🙂
Shaunessy. My name is Shaunessy. 🙂
A beach get-away sounds great. I fell in love with the Pacific Ocean back in the early 80’s when I made my first visit there. This is such a sweet and thoughtful idea.
LOVE LOVE LOVE to win summer prizes 🙂
Actually, just seeing what the gift contained made me smile!
Beth Hoffman
I’d love to win the giveaway…and I will not be getting to go on vacation this year. My husband is in school and I stay home with my three children..money’s pretty tight!
Yea! We could all use a little sunshine in our lives. Thanks for sharing!
What an amazing giveaway–thanks for the opportunity! 🙂 No big plans this summer except sending our son to summer camp and our daughter on a week-long missions trip this summer THE SAME WEEK!! We will feel like empty nesters for a week (squeal!) 🙂
I live in Portland, Oregon, where the sun never shines. If it does, we all get out our summer gear w/our pasty white bodies. Whoever wins, they’ll be blessed. Anything from Living Proof, whether it’s emails or a giveaway, is always a blessing. There’s nothing like that sisterly love from those who love Him! Thanks for your love and for being our friend.
This is the happiest set of sunshine I could imagine. I would be so thankful for it! You are kind to offer it.
Thank you for sharing your sunshine with us! Here is too a summer filled with much SON – no matter where!
Awesome, we could all use a mini getaway in a basket. This looks like the perfect for the thing for a great “staycation.” 🙂
Thanks for being such a vital ministry to women! y’all are so uplifting!!
I am raising my hand in the air and shaking it as hard as i can. That is the sweetest thing that you are doing i pray that GOD picks the person that truely needs a little fun in there day.
I had my first precious baby last May, and in just a few short weeks, I will be having my second baby boy :). I’m excited about my crazy summer of getting used to two kids,but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t longing for a vacay too :). Awesome giveaway!
going to have a SON~shiney summer!
No big plans for the summer, here. Although I am “dreaming” of a southern California vacation. Love the giveaway items-you’re kind and generous.
Thank you,
Andrea
This would be a great raffle prize for the women’s night at my church.
please let me win
What a fantastic idea! Thanks for thinking of us. My hand is raised.
I will be home this summer with 3 bonus boys,my step sons and a new baby! I would apprecite this so very much God bless you for my consideration!
I can feel the sand between my toes. . . .
Lovely! Like a mini vacation 🙂
I’d love to win the gift pack to pass on to any of a number of women in my church who could definitely use a summer break. My summer break was 2 weeks at home recuperating from ‘female’ surgery. It’s tough being a woman when ovaries misbehave!
Just staring intensive group therapy to deal with my Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. It’s a big commitment. Won’t be going to the beach, could really use a little beach retreat in a box 🙂
Gina Develin…Bring on the sunshine 🙂
What sweet gifts! We got to go to the beach last summer (after a 11 year delay!)and we loved it all over again..our kids are 16 and 13 now and hadn’t been since they were 2 and 4! wow. Loved watching the dolphins and, yes, building sand castles!! 🙂
oooooh! I hope I’m not too late!
Please enter me –
Thank You!
hope I’m not too late! I’d love the giveaway 🙂
I hope I’m not too late 🙂
Thanks for this chance to win the Summer give-a-away!!
How lovely and refreshing – thanks for the chance to win!
What a sweet, fun giveaway. Our exciting summer getaway will be to the hospital to get my dear hubby’s hip replaced. Maybe I need to take some beach goodies to the hospital…add some waves crashing from WhiteNoise and he’ll never know we’re not relaxing on the beach 🙂
Would love to give to my stressed 30 year old daughter with a 5 month old baby. There is definitely no beach getaway on her horizon.
I hope I’m not too late 🙂 Thank you for the sweet escape even when you can’t.
Hi- Would love to win!
Oh I would love to win! What an awesome giveaway. It would definitely bring a smile to my face and put a bounce in my step! 🙂
A vacation in a bag how wonderful! I will have to put the lounge chair out on tha patio and enjoy each and every piece of this if I win.
Thank you!