10th Day of Christmas Giveaway…..with Leah DiPascal

Attention Weight Loss Wednesday gals….Do not fear! We are still checking in today. Just scroll down past this 12 Days of Christmas interview to see our WLW post. After, of course, you’ve entered today’s giveaway!

jc0008bWe are hitting the homestretch people! There are just three Proverbs 31 gals left for me to introduce you to this year in our special series. NOTE: If you are just joining us in our 12 Days of interviews and giveaway goodies, click here to get caught up. You can enter to win the prizes on any of the 12 posts until midnight EST on this coming Sunday, December 13th.

Today, you get to meet a pretty important woman at Proverbs 31 Ministries (not to mention a pretty woman too!), especially to our radio show co-host Renee Swope. Leah DiPascal is Renee’s personal assistant. Basically that means she is half of her brain :-) (And with all Renee has going on in her life right now, she could use that half a brain!) She  is eagerly helpful, constantly  prayerful and adds so much to the ministry of Proverbs. She is one of those gals everyone wishes were her friend and I am fortunate to count her as one of mine.

So now, on our 10th day of Christmas, meet the sweet Leah DiPascal:

Leah is a very ordinary woman who serves a very extraordinary God.Leah.picture

She loves teaching God’s life giving Word to women of all ages. One of her heart’s desires is to help women understand who they are in Christ and teach them how to experience a more intimate relationship with Him. Leah lives in Charlotte, NC and is a wife to Keith and mom to Brody (14 yrs) and Carson (10 yrs).  She also has the incredible privilege of being on staff with Proverbs 31 ministries as assistant to Renee Swope.

Leah loves to travel with her family, play tennis, to go shopping with friends, and enjoy a homemade latte with her husband every morning.  She teaches a women’s Bible study and serves on the executive message team at her church.

You can email Leah at [email protected] to connect with her.  She also is on Face book under Leah Hofmann DiPascal or she’d love for you to visit her blog at www.LeahDiPascal.blogspot.com

Leah, Can you share a Christmas tradition the DiPascal family has enjoyed over the years?

Sure! Each year our family receives Christmas cards from friends and family.  Most of them include photos which we really enjoy.  It’s amazing to see how everyone changes from one year to the next.

We place these cards in a basket and each night during dinner time someone gets to pull a Christmas card.  We’ll share a special memory about the loved ones in the photo and then pray for them before eating.  The following day, I’ll email that particular family and let them know that we prayed for them.

It’s a great way to focus on others during the Christmas season plus, it’s a lot of fun and our family really looks forward to it each year.

What activities do you most look forward to doing with your family at the holidays?

We love going to Christmas concerts.  There is a huge church in our area that hosts one every year.  The production includes over 300 singers, a full orchestra, drama, dance, and live animals.  It is spectacular and helps our family focus on the birth of Jesus and why we celebrate Christmas in the first place.

Our oldest son is also in a teen choir and they have Christmas productions every year.  It so touches our hearts to see over 150 teens singing praises to God and rejoicing over the birth of Jesus Christ.

Do you have a favorite movie you watch at this time of year?

Our family loves to watch movies together.  Friday nights are movie nights in our home and during Christmas time we always watch “Elf” and “Jingle All the Way”.

You are offering a wonderful prize today to one of our cyber sisters. Can you tell us about it?

Yes, I’m so excited about my give-away.  I love clothes and always enjoy having something new in my closet to wear.  So, I’ve decided to give away a Proverbs 31 t-shirt today.  It’s one of my favorites!  If you’d like to take a peek, just click on the link below. The winner will just have to let us know what size to send.

http://shopp31.com/awomanwhofearsthelord-t-shirt.aspx

Thanks Leah for stopping by today and for the great giveaway!

Okay gals, since Leah is giving away an article of clothing, leave a comment today on the most memorable item to wear you ever gave or received at Christmas. Maybe it was a sweater, a piece of jewelry or a crazy item given as a joke. Perhaps it was a treasured article of clothing you opened as a child. As always, if you can’t think of something or have cookies burning in the oven and little time to comment, just say, “I’m in!”

I’ll start.

Hands down, the item to wear I most remember was when, in 1976  as a sixth grader, on Christmas morning I got a pair of white go-go boots.

Man did I look snappy wearing those shiny, stretchy, chunky-heeled wonders to Hayes Middle School that first Monday in January 1977 ……in 4 feet of snow!

Kinda hard to see white, knee-high, go-go boots in 4 feet of fluffy white snow. But I still hoped Benji Rivera would notice how hip I looked and ask me to the mid-winter dance.

How about you? Any special item to wear that you remember?

Wearing-a-Holiday-Smile Blessings,

79 Comments

  1. When I was a kid here in WI I got a new winter coat..the ones they called Parkas…I loved it and was soo excited to get one.

  2. Hi Girls!

    My favorite memory of something to wear was a shirt that my grandmother embroidered on. She had seven grandchildren and made all of us a shirt that year with different things embroidered on them. My favorite thing on my shirt was my name. My name has a different spelling and is rarely seen on anything. I loved it that she put my name on that shirt. I wore it to threads and then hated to part with it. I was in Jr. High at the time, well over 30 years ago. Yeah, that was special!

    I love the picture/prayer at suppertime idea. That is really special!

    Merry Christmas to ya’all!

    Blessings,
    Cheri Bunch

  3. Several years ago my husband gave me a black leather coat that I had been eyeing for some time. I love it, and always get compliments when I wear it.

    The tshirt is great, what a wonderful giveaway. Hope to win :)

  4. The most memorible clothing gift I recieved was a yellow crochet sweater from my grandmother when I was in Jr. High.

  5. When I was in the 5th grade, I dreamed of me wearing this beautiful burgundy outfit. It was so beautiful in my dream that I described it to my parents and asked for it for Christmas. To my delight, I received the complete outfit on Christmas morning – pants, shirt, vest, socks, shoes, etc. Unfortunately, it looked better on me in my dream! :-)

  6. I just found your blog from Renee…I would like to be counted for the give away…

    My most favorite and to this day most cherished item, is not really clothes, but more a blanket. You see, it was my Grandmothers. She was an amazing woman and I grew to know and love the Lord because she shared His love with me.

    I was heart broken the year she died. She passed away in October. I was upset because I didnt have anything to hold on to to remind me of her. LIttle did I know that my aunt had taken her quilt and put it away for me. That Christmas she gave it to me…I cried for hours because it still smelled like her. I still sleep with it when I need to feel her near me.

    Terry
    http://pink-itsmorethanjustacolor.blogspot.com/

  7. One Christmas, my parents got me a baby doll (Baby Feels-So-Real), and my mom had sewn her a whole bunch of outfits. They weren’t things for me to wear, but they were special nonetheless! I still have the doll and the doll clothes, and now my little girls play with them!

  8. Oh, it’s so wonderful to “meet” Leah. Our church has been in contact with her as Renee is coming to speak to us in 2011. I was looking forward to getting to know Leah.

    My parents save their Christmas cards in a basket each year as well, but then use them all year. Each night at the dinner table from January until December of the following year they pull out a card each night and pray for the family. So many times they have discovered that the family being prayed for that night truly needed prayer for a certain situation. Amazing how God’s Hand is even over a basket of Christmas cards.

    The first year I was dating my husband-to-be, he gave me a wool sweater with two doves stitched into the design. I still have that sweater. I never wear it, but I can’t part with it. It’s sewn together with so many memories.

    This is such a fun 12 Days of Proverbs 31!

  9. Hi,
    My husband gave me the mother and child pendant one year for Christmas. I like simple jewlery and so this was and is perfect for me. I also enjoy sewing flannel pajama bottoms for my kiddos for Christmas. This year they may get them after Christmas since it’s been a bit busy so far!

  10. When I was 15, my youth group exchanged names for Christmas. I received a gray blazer from the man who I ended up marrying 5 years later. And yes, I liked him a lot then, too, but he didn’t know it!

  11. Leah, I love all that you shared about your family traditions!! We love Elf and Jingle All the Way, too!

    Reading all of these gift memories made me think about the year I got a white rabbit fur muff (hand warmer) for Christmas from my dad. Made me feel like a princess!

    Please don’t enter me in the drawing. I already have the t-shirt and I love it!

    Merry Christmas Karen, Leah and all!

  12. I remember getting a purple sweatshirt with a polar bear on it that I changed into after work every chance I got. It was big and warm and I loved it. I must have worn it too much because after awhile when I came home from work, my dad started asking if the polar bear was coming to dinner!

  13. Hello Karen and Leah,

    The best clothing gift i ever remember getting was, a Lowpie Sweater when they were popular way back when:) My Dads Mom made each of us one and mine was in my favorite color Hunter Green i was so happy:) I had that sweater for a good many years:) God bless you both.

  14. When I was 11 or 12 my aunt whom we lovingly refer to as our Fairy Godmother, gave me a charcoal gray skirt and jacket with a peach ruffly blouse! I thought I was pretty big stuff getting to wear that “business” suit to church!

  15. I used to always get new PJ’s, slippers and a robe from my Grandma. My sister and I would always get to open it on Christmas eve so we could wear it Christmas morning.

  16. I always try to find a new Christmas top to wear to various gatherings. Nothing too fancy, but definitely festive. This year, I think I found my favorite. It is a simple t-shirt bearing the words from Luke 2:10 and a few red ornaments. The best Christmas present ever, I’m reminded!

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