“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
How fun!
Lauren Abernathy
Love this collection!
Seeing that definitely put a smile on my face. Thanks for the chance to win such a great collection of treasures!
So fun! a new baby on the way in 4 weeks.. we won’t be going on a vacation for a long time!!
Sweet! We love the beach and this a fabulous giveaway! Our plans have us staying landlocked this summer where people refer to the beach as some dirt around a lake – so I am trying to embrace this concept of “midwestern beach”. I hope your winner can revel in this giveaway on all of our behalf!
Would love a little beach in a box! I would let everyone in my Sunday school class pick a treat!! God is good– all the time!
Wow! What a great giveaway!
I could sure use a break, but doesn’t look like one is coming too soon! I have been busy for the last 5 weeks taking care of our little kitty who was attacked by two dogs on our front porch! We are at the point now where I am having to feed him with a syringe.
And all this in addition to being a wife and mother and all that entails!
.Love it…reminds me of the Sound of Music….”these are a few of my favorite things…great selection! 🙂
Yes please… I need a nice giveaway… I wish and pray that I can one day be home spending summers with my kiddos instead of in a lab testing phones!! Happy Summer everyone and God Bless!
How fun!!
How fun…just smelled ‘Beach’ for the first time this weekend. Love!
This blog definitely has brought a smile to my face. Always does!
Rebekah Parker
Um, yes please! What a fun package of goodies!!!! Thanks for sharing!
What a fun idea 🙂 No time off for me this summer, so this would be a lovely “getaway”.
I would love to win this giveaway! I am currently 7 months pregnant, which means I will not be going on vacation for a very long while.
This is so thoughtful!
How fun! Love your posts, Melissa!
My mom would be THRILLED with this! She never gets a break from being a caretaker, much less a vacation. Thank you for this opportunity, Melissa!
Well that sounds fabulous!
I seriously want to smell that perfume!!
LOVE this! I would love to visit the ocean this summer, but it’s not going to happen for this family! It’s so sweet of you to think of such a fun gift for one of us Siestas!
I’m working all summer, and traveling for ministry work, so no relaxing for me. I would love to win this!
Ashley Moman
How generous! Such a fantastic gift! Thank you:)
Love those aviators:)
What a delight! Thank you, Melissa!
Karen
I would love to smell the beach! Happy day to all of you!
Karen Edlund
What fun treats!
Good afternoon,
This is amazing that you are thinking of so many other women that really won’t be able to take a breather this summer. I myself fall into that category. I spent my remaining vacation days on a mission trip to the LA Dream Center. Now I understand how a mission trip can be life changing. Some members from the team i went with are now in the process of opening and developing a Dream Center here in Minnesota. So i will be spending my weekends reaching out to the homeless and whatever it takes to help get the Mpls/St. Paul Dream Center on its feet.
Thank you again for being so loving and giving!
God’s peace!
Thank you, what a wonderful gift. This would be amazing to receive.
Oh, I know what it is to be under the weather on a holiday and wanting desperately for a get away. This is a great idea, to give away a taste of the beach, a place I would have rather been than sick in bed. Thank you for the opportunity to try to get away.
Kelli R.
This is an excellent idea!
Jami Holland
What a great idea for a giveaway! 🙂
Sounds lovely!!!!!!!!!!!
If I received this, I would probably “re-gift” it as the Spirit led me.
“You are my sunshine….” thank you for thinking of others! You are a blessing!
Jennifer Shuler – What a delightful giveaway & I would be delighted of course to be the recipient! 🙂
🙂
Kimberly-Idaho
I’d love to win. I have a 5 year old, a 3 year old, and a 4 month old so this prize looks fun.
What fun and so very thoughtful!! Thanks!!
Kim Long
This is a great giveaway. Thank you for the opportunity to participate. ~Sarah
Robbyn Hanstad
Frisco, TX
Iana Fincher! How fun is this?!
I need a blast of summer, we had snow here this weekend!!
Love it! Thanks!
Happy Summer!
Amy
I might relax in a few years. Still waiting for my toddlers to learn how to make me breakfast in bed (:
Oh me, oh me, oh me – PLEASE!!! 🙂
April Jones
This is amazing! Way to spread the sunshine!!
My husband and I are missionaries on a tropical island. Well, actually a really big island, Papua New Guinea, and we live in the center highlands at l mile elevation.
We serve at a mission hospital of 130 beds that serves a populations of 250,000 people.
I won’t be getting away. In fact as I write this our family is putting to rest my dear father-in-law who passed away at 94 in Idaho. We were unable to attend but know we will see him again in heaven!
It would greatly encourage me to receive your summer gift! We do receive mail here! This is a really busy summer for our station. One of my jobs is hospitality and I’ll really be practicing that in the next couple of months with volunteers who are coming to help us.
I love you, Beth. You do a wonderful job of making us feel like we really are your friends!!
Building sand castles in my dreams already 🙂
Ayesha Ford
Julie Pogue
Heaven on earth!!