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 a sanctuary that my family can come to when the outside world is cold and unforgiving. I hope they step into our home and feel security, love, warmth, and grace. I pray “home” for them will become memories and traditions; reminders of comfort and peace where ever the Lord may take them.
That apron is too cute!
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Home is where my family is. We love to take roadtrips but I always love coming back to my home-it’s comfortable, it’s secure, it’s ours!
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Home is where my love and life is. My family. Simple as that! Would love to win the apron!
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Home is where I can put my slippers on and I don’t have to worry about if my hair’s out of place… My home is not perfect but it has all the things I love in it, most of the time!
Sandy, YOU are too cute in that apron! Is that your {gasp} new kitchen???
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Home to me is an ever-evolving story — the best external witness to what’s happening to us inside. I’ve been on a kick to transform my old story (clutter, unrest, busy-ness) to a new one of rest, creating a peaceful haven, and making time for important things, both small and large. With a new baby and 2 other small ones, it’s the best thing I’ve done for my family so far.
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Home is the warm and comfortable place I sleep every night and rise every morning. Home is the place I laugh and love the most! I know its corny, but so true – Home is where my heart is — its where my true loves reside (LL and my bub, Claire too)!
Great question!
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Home is where my family and I find sanctuary from the outside world. We find shelter and warmth here. There is a feeling of security in knowing that there is always a place we can go where there is constant love. While our home here on earth is only temporary, it is a reflection of the complete peace and comfort we will find in our eternal home.
Lovely giveaway! I love rick-rack
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Home is my favorite place to be, I just bought my first house this year and have enjoyed making it my own. There is nothing like walking in your front door and knowing you are were you are suppose to be.
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To me home is where you can finally relax, sleep, eat weird stuff, laugh, cry and basically be yourself with your favorite, most loyal people in the world. That would be family.
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Home is where we are together as a family. It doesn’t even matter if we’re in our house–if we’re together that’s really enough. But the house does add an element of relaxation, and of ministry. Home is us! The house is just where we live and have fun and minister.
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Home is where we can be comfortable, be loved, laugh, play, cry, come closer to God together. Home is being accepted, feeling warm, fed and at peace.
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Home is: the place where I’m happiest, with candles lit on the mantle, bread baking in the oven, and the people I love cuddled next to me. It’s safe, happy and full of love.
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I love this, for us home is where comfort happens. It’s where we can be real, be us and learn who are in life-in relation to God first and then others. It’s a place we can make mistakes, and learn from them. It’s a place of belonging and growing. Wow, it’s so much to us, thanks for a few moments to reflect!
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Wow….good one! Hmmm…home to me is a sanctuary away from the hussle and bussle of the world. A place where (my hope is that) our children will always always ALWAYS feel safe, secure, and loved. A place for laughing, crying, and being yourself. A place where we are ALL learning and a place where we are striving to put God first every day.
Yep…I think that sums it up.
By the way…love the handles on your kitchen cabinets…we have the exact same ones (great minds think alike)!!!
Take Care!
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Home is:
Where I can wear my favorite tshirt and be comfortable.
Where I can share an advent devotional with the man I love the most and struggle with faith together.
Where my puppy rules.
Where I can be myself and become a better version of myself.
Where I am loved.
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Well, here on earth home is wherever my family is. But if you’re a believer, our eternal home is ultimately in heaven which is something I don’t think about often enough. So, thanks for reminding me!
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Home is a haven where you can be you. Where your children feel love and caring. Home is where your family can laugh together, cry together, and pray together. It might not be clean all the time, but home is where you hang your heart each day (I know that someone else coined that phrase, but it was perfect!)
Sandy, thanks for visitng my blog last week. Yours alwsy inspires me! Thanks also for the cute give-away!
Hugs!
Susan
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Home is love…it is the place we live with the people who really know who I am. I fluff and feather and try to keep it a happy and healthy place. It is where you come to at the end of the day, and you know that is where you belong. Like Dorothy said… there is no place like it.
Susan
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That apron is super cute!! Home to me is wherever my husband is. That sounds cheesy, I know – but it’s true!
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Home is where my husband is… where ever that may be.
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What a LOVELY apron. That would be part of my Christmas outfit!
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Home is when I snuggle with my babies . . . we are in the process of moving so home isn’t a house, it is snuggle time
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Home is my safe haven ~ a place to just relax and “be”. It’s a place to welcome family and friends, eat, drink, laugh and love.
The apron is adorable and you look dynamite wearing it!
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Home is where you can be yourself. Home is where you’re surrounded by love, safe and secure.
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Home is where my family is. As Jane Austen said, “There is nothing like home for real comfort.”
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Home is a haven of safety, our sanctuary! It is also where memories are created, we are cherished and loved just as we are. Home sweet HOme!!
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Home is anywhere my husband and kids are. We just belong together. Thank you so much!
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Home…
Home is where you can walk in the door and instantly feel surrounded by peace, love, and a sense of belonging. It is wear I can kick off my shoes, put up my feet, look around, and marvel at God’s amazing provisions, both the physical and the spiritual. It is where my children feel most comfortable, nestled in a place where they are loved unconditionally and taught how to live a God-centered life. It is where people can come and expect to feel that same love, warmth, and acceptance, no matter who they are.
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Simple, home is where my family is. Would love to win the apron
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For me home is the place I feel good and secure. Home is where we share laugh, smile… The smell of awesome food I bake. My cats that are home waiting for us after work. It feels great
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I tweeted about the giveaway
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So … what is home to you?
It’s peace, love and calm. A refuge from the big bad world. ——
Happy Holidays!
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Home is a refuge..a place where each member of the family comes to be unconditionally loved and accepted. It is a place where we love, are loved in return, and constantly learn more about what it means to love!
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Home to me is where I am safe. It doesn’t necessarily a physical building but rather the people who make up the home. Hoem is where I am me and feel that is the best I can be.
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Home is a haven where my family and friends can come and feel secure and loved!
Love these aprons!!
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Home is being with my family and friends that are like family.
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Too cute!
For me home is wherever my husband is…but luckily for both of us it is Vermont – from the nature to the food, it is the one place we both love to live!
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my home is comfort, great smelling and my husband. where i can put my sweats on and relax! Somewhere where nothing else matters in the world except for spending time with my husband.
That apron is sooo cute and I hope I win!!!
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To me, home is a place where you can be your true self and relish in the freedom of being around the ones you love.
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Of course, home is wherever my family is. K
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Of course, home is wherever my family is. Wish they could be closer. K
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Home is where my family is.
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Home is right in the middle of your comfort zone.
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Home is my refuge and my comfort. The place where I am myself and where I feel safe.
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One woman stated it perfectly when she said home is a sanctuary. A place our family can come in, be together, and get refreshed after a long day. Warm, cozy and together. Together we are blessed.
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For me, home is anywhere my family is gathered.
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Home is where we are together as a family. We just moved from our first home that we built together and I was so sad because we were leaving our “home.” We moved into a small rental until our new house is built. Our rental is now HOME. We are together and our things and each other has made this house OUR HOME.
Love the apron. Hope I win!
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I have asked myself that question a lot in the last year or two! We have moved several times and so I naturally wonder those things. But I have come to the conclusion that Home is where my family can gather and where love abounds. There is a freedom to share our hearts and sometimes our hurts. We can be real. Thanks for asking! The apron is so cute and wearing one would make me feel “at home”!
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What is home? I can honestly say that I’ve had a home or a place that truly felt like home in the past ten years when I got married. Unlike my childhood home, this home feels like it. A home is place where you truly feel safe and never had to worry about being hurt. A home is a place where you fit in and don’t worry about being bullied, teased or feeling self-conscience of yourself. I home is where you are surrounded by people who love you and you love them in return. A home is where you want to go home to at the end of a terrible or happy day. This is what I have and I am grateful for it!
I would love to win the apron. I’m just starting to entertain in my new house (we moved recently) and this would help. At least it would help me feel more like a classy hostess.
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Home is where I can be myself and be loved anyway, home is where we can shut out the world and devote time to each other. Home is where memories and traditions are made. Home is a place to come home to. Home is a place to be settled (I moved 23 times before getting married), a place where you love the ordinary, everyday things. Home is a place where I feel safe and secure, a place where love abides, courage grows, respect is learned, and a gathering place for family and friends.
I suffer from depression, so a lot of my life is spent at home, secluded and alone, but this year I’m feeling good, so I’m planning some entertaining for the first time in years, I’m so excited and a new apron would be wonderful! Thanks for the chance to win.
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