Perfect, just in time for your Christmas shopping, Hip Hostess has a beautiful variety of aprons on her site, and this week, Debbie is giving away one Melon Splash Demi Style Apron!
Yes, you could be the winner of an apron, exactly like the one I’m wearing here!
But let me start with this. When Mary from Giving up on Perfect asked her readers, how do you define home? I couldn’t help but comment.
There are so many answers to give. Home is a resting place, a place of safety (hopefully), it’s where we get our tummies filled up and we let our hair down. My home is often messy, full of kids and laughter, and tons of noises like barking dogs and most recently power tools! It’s also not a perfect home–just ask our neighbors when they hear us yelling! Like, come on, get in the car! We’re leaving for soccer! Get your violin done! Whose turn to do the dishes? Pick up your socks! Pick up the towels! The list goes on and on.
On a more serious note though, my answer to Mary was this:
Home is where you learn to be yourself, to be real, and for my family – it’s a place where courage is bolstered.
It’s where we talk around our table about life, and we go deep. There is no untouchable subject in our home. Since the kids’ dad wrote a powerful curriculum, a faith-based response to bullying – we talk about all the cool things happening with this ministry, and how it compares to our kids’ experiences, we learn to encourage one another, which bolsters our faith. It encourages us to make a stand in life. To stand up for what is right. It helps us think of how we can give to and love others. It’s an important kind of bolstering – a kind that is required by all. And it happens at home.
ANSWER TO WIN!
So … what is home to you?
Leave a comment, share your heart and a chance to WIN something that will HELP YOU be more hospitable, right? There’s nothing like a brand new Hip Hostess apron to get you inspired!
2 CHANCES
Tweet this giveaway, add to your Facebook page, or post on your blog, and you’ll get a 2nd chance to win. Oh, and you don’t have to have a blog to be eligible to win!
WINNER ANNOUNCED
I’ll be announcing the winner on Friday, Dec. 4th!
Thank you, RE readers, for your loyalty and support. Thank you, Hip Hostess, for the chance for someone to WIN! And if you want to order some aprons right now, please use this promo code:
Code: HOME (all caps) 20% off Expires 12-31-09
Now don’t forget to enter the Kraft Foods Basket Giveaway that is still going on! And head over to The Inspired Room and check out what Melissa is giving away! So soft and cuddly! Isn’t the spirit of giving so exciting at Christmastime?
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home is where I can be Me, I can let my hair down and do what I want. Its a place where my family finds peace from the hustle bustle of the world. Place where they rejuvinate ( re-energize) ,relax and enjoy! My HOme is our Haven.
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Home is…where no one judges you. A place with unconditional love…security, it’s cozy and warm. Home is a safe haven, a place filled with laughter and memories.
I am blogging about your giveaway for an add’l entry because I adore this apron. You look terrific in it!
Wish me luck!
Tammy
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Home is where I learn to live out Christ’s hands and feet to my children – with many, many mistakes of course.
And that apron would relieve me of having to choose a skirt for our Christmas open house!
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Home is where my family is!
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Home is where my people are. It’s where the ones that don’t live with me come to visit. It’s where we all meet for food and chat and Christmas. It’s where any of the aforementioned can bring anyone along and they’ll fit right in. It’s the best place to be.
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Home is were we feel safe to be ourselves. It might be our own house, a family member or a friends house or it could be a hotel room. Thanks for the give away.
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Home to me is where I can stay in my p.j.’s all day if I want and my kids still tell me I’m pretty and my husband says I’m hot. Home to me is where love is unconditional. It’s where tempers flair at times but love always multiplies and grows.
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Home…it’s a big word. To me home is a lot of different places and people:
Heaven, how I long for the day when I can meet Jesus, my Father…oh, what a day!!
My house where my husband and girlie live is my comfort zone, where I can let loose, where I can be messy, where I can be myself…totally.
My hometown in Canada, I think I will always call that home even though it’s been 4 years since I moved to the US.
Wherever my family and dearest friends are feels like home. A hug from my Mom feels like home, a long chat with a good friend feels like home, snuggling with my husband feels like home.
The list goes on.
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Home is where I am with my family, where I can help determine the culture of our lives, where we cultivate kindness and acceptance.
Thanks for the chance to win!
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Home is a place of comfort. It is a place that I can fall apart and there are people there that love me to build me back up. It is the only place that I know I don’t ever have to be anyone but myself.
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Home is where my family is. It could be a tiny apartment (that we live in now) or a mansion….none of that matters, if I can’t hear my kids laughter (or battles), the dogs barking, a Clint Eastwood movie (courtesy of my husband), and ‘mom’ called out a million times a day. That is home, in all it’s loud and crazy ways!
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I don’t have children, so home is where my husband and fur-babies are.
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The simple answer is that home is where my family is! And that is true, but it is also a place where we welcome others into our lives a little more when they enter our homes. This is more complex than I thought it would be…
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oh girl – home is a place of refuge (and where ever I can where that ADORABLE) apron.
Off to retweet your tweet “_
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Home is where I can be the most comfortable and relaxed, with friends and family.
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Home is where my family is.
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Home is where my family is, where I can totally relax, where I change into my pjs, and where I kiss my babies goodnight.
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We will be moving into our first home on Dec 20th and I can’t wait to make it ours:) We’ve been living with in-laws for 6 months now, so home for me means a place of my own to share with my husband and 2 little ones:) Lovely prize!! Thanks!
christinbanda at yahoo dot com
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Home is my happiness.
Hugs in the morning~~reading books at breakfast~~laughter at dinner~~games in the evening~~Hugs at night.
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These aprons bring back memories of my late mom. She had lots of them when I was growing up. I am not sure what happened to all of them. I love your site and I love your apron giveaway. Thanks for making my day, which is my birth day a happy one.:)
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My home is phamily. As long as we can all be together there is really nothing else that matters. These aprons bring back memories of my late mom. She had lots of them when I was growing up. I am not sure what happened to all of them. I love your site and I love your apron giveaway. Thanks for making my day, which is my birth day a happy one.:)
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Home to me is unconditional love. It is comfort, fun, happiness, reality, and love. You can walk in the door and shed your shoes and your worries, and just be you.
Home is comfort.
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Home is a feeling that is shared not made.
Sure, all the cozy comfy elements of decor and aromas of candles and things make an atmosphere beautiful. But for me, home is being with my husband, my kids, my family memebers, my close friends and sharing and laughing. Feeling accepted and loved. That is home.
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Home is family and where we can relax without worrying about messing the place up!
CUTE apron!
Janet
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home is… where my husband and sons are.
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Being a military family, home is anyplace where we are all together…
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Home for me is the place where I live with my children and where we all feel safe and blessed to be together.
And pretty aprons like this one remind us of this.
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My answer is going to be different than most I am sure..Home to me is…You can feel warm and fuzzy right when you step into your home. It’s when you snuggle in bed with your child(ren) and husband or significant other, it’s fresh baked cookies and apple pies. Home is not only a place, it’s a feeling or something that gives you a warm feeling. It’s eating as a family at the dinner table and sharing breakfast in the morning. It’s bed time stories and late night giving my baby her bath. It’s a cuddle with the cats at night while watching my favorite daytime shows. It’s being the best parent and spouse you can be and giving all of your love daily to each.
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I did a whole post on this back in October, after a trip to L.A….
Home is the foggy little peninsula and the house with the purple door. My home isn’t perfect (I gave up on that in favor of my sanity…and apparently blogging)…it needs a new master bathroom (Can you just imagine saloon doors? OK, they are gone now, but they were there!), the kitchen tile is atrocious, the grass is a little brown, and there is plenty of dog hair to go around.Yet, when I drive up to the house, I hear the “sniff, sniff” at the door waiting for me, my favorite picture hanging on the wall, the smell of my favorite candle, and again all is well with the world….my world. The one where my kids make messes and laughter, where I stay up too late, and where, when the sun sets on the deck, it is pretty darn near perfect…especially if chocolate chip cookies have just finished baking in the oven!
Holly
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Hope.
Ordinary people with an extraordinary bond.
Mutual respect and love.
Enough.
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Home is the safest place in the world. Where there is laughter and love abounding.
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I love your site and new kitchen! Home is food, family and fun not necessarily in that order. Hubby just left for three weeks and we’re missing him already.
A piece to our puzzle is missing.
blessings,
lise
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You can do or be what ever you want, this is what we stress and encourge in our home even if this means that your Jr in high school DAUGHTER wants to play varsity FOOTBALL! Well with a lot prayer and talking it over the the coaches she finished an entire season that included summer camps and 2 hour practices 5 days a week in full gear and maybe a little lip gloss she ended up a league champion she may not have played in every game but when she did you could hear the crowd show her their support & not just from mom & dad, so this will stay with her for the rest of her life that yes it is possible to do or be anything you want.
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“Home is where the Navy sends us.” We’ve lived many different places, but really…home is where my family is. Where we can all feel safe to be ourselves. Right now, it is warm and cozy and quiet, but in the morning, my toddlers will be awake and the joyful noise begins! I can’t wait. I am such a home-body!!
And I soooo LOVE that apron!
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Home is wherever good friend and family gather.
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What is home to me? Plain and simple… Home is anywhere my family is.
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H-O-M-E… it’s the place you long to retreat in after all the activities of the day. It’s the place where your feet can finally rest. The place your family finds connection again.
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Home is whatever you make it to be. For me it is a place where love abounds. It doesn’t matter the size or condition of your living place, so long as the bond of love holds your family together.
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