10th Day of Christmas Giveaway…..with Leah DiPascal
Published December 9, 2009Attention 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!
We 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.
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 Leah.Proverbs31@gmail.com 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,
Weight Loss Wednesday Quick Check In
Published December 9, 2009Hey ladies Most of you know I am in the middle of a series of giveaways with 12 of my fellow Proverbs 31 speakers. However, I didn’t want us to skip checking in this week. Especially with all the tempting foods starting to pop up all over.
I mean ALL over.
Everywhere I go, I see fudge and cookies and gingerbread lattes. Stores are handing out samples to shoppers. Friends are baking and sharing goodies. Grandma’s are making caramels and peanut brittle. Even my 11 year old keeps asking to make Christmas cookies.
Oh, and next Tuesday, (the Tuesday that is right before the Wednesday that we weigh in—-yep that Tuesday) I am holding a baking day with several of Kenz’s college and high school friends.
Boy, do I need to be on my toes and on my knees.
We all do. And we need to be faithful to pray for each other.
Hard. Real hard.
Although it is difficult to lose weight over the holidays, it is NOT impossible. Just keep this phrase in mind:
Less. And less often.
Eat less goodies and eat them less often. So, what that might look like is this: instead of indulging yourself all day long on your cookie baking/ fudge making day, tasting and sampling and licking the bowl, plan ahead. Tell yourself you will NOT nibble all day long. You will instead pick one goodie to enjoy slowly at the end of the baking session. And that will be it!
Then the next two or three times you are near another array of goodies. You will take nothing. Instead, you’ll sip on something hot and lo-cal and pass on the treats. After all, you just indulged in a treat a few days earlier.
Less. And less often.
Make it your motto this season.
Now, how was your week? Did you eat less? Move more? Did you watch those BLT’s? (bites, licks and tastes?) Did the scale go up? Down? Hover around the same number as last week?
Please let us know! And hop on to encourage each other. I LOVE seeing that happen.
Hmmmm…and I may just have a little giveaway for one such encourager this week
As for me, it was a good week. Praise Jesus, it was one of those weeks that I obeyed and didn’t just do my own thing, eating whatever I wanted, even when I wasn’t hungry. I made time for exercise and didn’t go over my allotted calories. However, I wasn’t expecting a big loss since over the past three weeks I had lost a good chunk each week. I sensed I might slow down a bit this week.
I was right. This week I lost 1 pound on the button. (I like to think of it as 4 sticks of butter. That’s a lot of fat!!!)
Slow and steady wins the race, right?
Now, your turn….
How was your week?
Less-is-More Blessings,
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