Win Handcrafted Soaps and more! 1K Giveaway {7}
This giveaway is now closed! Thank you all for participating!
Today’s giveaway prizes have a day of rest in mind. As moms, it’s hard to find a moment to ourselves, much less a whole day! These gifts will help you find that quiet moment you need to recharge.
The first giveaway winner will receive a beautiful package of indulgent handcrafted bath and personal care items from Sharon Rowland at Lovin’ the Lather. Sharon personally designs and creates each item on her website, from soaps to lip balms to personal care products. She uses real ingredients you can feel good about using and putting on your children. Plus, they are gorgeous! I love the variety and creativity of her products.
Tea Rose and Vanilla Shea
Sharon is blessing one winner with a spa package including a Tea Rose and Vanilla Shea soap (pictured above), plus her handcrafted lip balm which comes in a variety of fun flavors!
Be sure to check out her website and Facebook page for an extra entry!
Next, my bloggy friend Laurie Wallin of Living Power Life Coaching is offering one winner this beautiful journal.
It has almost 200 pages for you to record your thoughts, ramblings, or doodles. Or, you can sign up for one of Laurie’s powerful online coaching classes and use it to record your growth!
This is Laurie
If you haven’t met Laurie yet, she has a passion to help women discover their joy! When you visit her website, you can even download her free e-book, Embrace the Crazy: Practical Ideas for When Life Seems Impossible! Boy, we all have days like that, don’t we?
The final prize of the day comes from author Jessie Gunderson. She has been published in a devotional book humorously titled If I Can Do All Things Through Christ Why Can’t I Find My Car Keys? It includes a “year’s worth of weekly devotions to help women on-the-go find a moment to spend with God.” Anyone around here need that?
Best family picture. Ever.
If you hop over to Jessie’s blog, you’ll soon see that one of the reasons I love her is because she has a heart for children. Also, her family wears great hats and takes funny pictures.
She and her family are sacrificially saving and raising money to adopt two children from Ethiopia. In fact, the proceeds of the book above don’t go to buying the Gunderson’s a new car or a the most fashionable new shoes. Nope. They’re using the money to redeem an African brother and sister out of a life of poverty. That just gets to my heart. I hope you’ll visit her and let her know you’ll be praying!
How to Enter
1) I like to keep giveaways simple. All you have to do to be entered for this giveaway is to comment below! That’s it! It would be fabulous if you also subscribed to my blog, followed me on Twitter, or liked my Facebook page, but I can’t make that a requirement because of Facebook policies (and it also complicates things and that sort of defeats the whole “simple” thing).
2) Now, I know some of you are over-achievers and want to do more to increase your chances of winning. Okay. Here you go: you may earn extra entries by visiting and commenting on our sponsors’ blogs, Facebook, or Twitter pages. Why not subscribe, like, or follow them while you’re there? Come back here and leave a separate comment to let me know you went a-visiting so I can enter your name twice.
3) Share any story from Five in Tow that has impacted you. You can even share the giveaway! Comment below (in a separate comment from any of the above) with the title of the post you shared and you’ll earn a third entry.
4) This giveaway will remain open for three days. I will draw two winners on February 5 at 4 pm PST and notify the winners. Prizes will be delivered by the sponsors within 4-6 weeks.
Fathers and Daughters: 100 Beautiful Days of Motherhood {23}
My dad died when I was not much older than she is now. I think of it in moments like this when he puts his arms around her shoulders and squeezes her to his side.
I think of it when he calls her Fluffer-Puff and asks her about her day, or when she’s tucked into her bed with a book and he sits down by her feet and talks to her in his unhurried way. He is never as hurried as I am.
I think of it when he builds the Swing of Awesome because he knows she’ll love it. It’s constructed out of a curvy old bike handle and a length of chain strung way up high in a sprawling tree. He pushes her out over the field where the bank slides away and her giggles fly away into the sky.
I can’t watch.
I think of my dad when her dad buys her bread sticks because she likes them, or when he let her have chickens even though he did not want chickens. But she did.
I think of it when he asks me how he can pray for her better, and I am reminded of how my own father prayed for me. It is not even a memory. It is part of my making.
And it minsters to me so deeply, the fatherhood of my husband toward our children. I see in him the love my own father had for me, and I am grateful. I see in him the love the heavenly Father has for me, and I am amazed.
I watch them together and I am thankful that she has him. I am thankful that her father’s love will lead her to understand the love of the Father. I know my husband is securing her affections toward the things that are good and holy, pure and righteous, beautiful and lovely. My daddy did the same thing for me, and if the story repeats itself as I think it will, she will not be able, after, to choose anything less.
So on this beautiful day of motherhood, I am thankful for the ministry of fatherhood. I am thankful that God has given us a picture of Himself that I can’t see in my mirror. I am thankful that I can see it in him.
