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,
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Our 10th Christmas together my husband surprised me with a beautiful blue sapphire (my birthstone) and diamond ring. Twenty-three years later I still wear this ring every day and seldom take it off. It is treasured as much as my wedding band and engagement ring are. Merry Christmas.
Michele
I received a silver and gold pin from my dad in the shape of a wing, with a beautiful letter talking about how I would start to hear the wing beats and I needed to follow them and leave the nest (it was my sr year in HS Christmas). I still have the letter and the pin and it always makes me teary.
I received my favorite pair of Christmas earrings from my grandma when I was about 10 yrs old–very small Christmas trees. They were so cute and sparkley.
When I was in high school my mom splurged and bought me a beautiful sweater for Christmas. I wore that sweater until it fell apart!
I dont remember just one special item but every year I would always receive new Christmas pajamas every Christmas Eve. I always got to open one present and it was always pajamas. Not too exciting as a kid, but as I got older it was a special way for my Mom to make me feel special. Now that my Mom is gone it will be up to me to carry on the tradition for my kids.
I’m in!
I remember a dress I received from my godmother in first grade-I LOVED that dress and fortunately, my mom saved it and it now hangs proudly in my closet! I remember wearing it with white cable knit tights and black patent leather mary jane’s. I was all that!
Every Christmas Eve each of my girls get to open one gift (always new Christmas PJ’s) and then they wear them to the midnight Christmas Eve service at church. My oldest is 9 and I’m not sure how many more years I can get her to wear PJ’s in public
The item that I treasure the most is a gold initial with a tiny diamond hanging on a delicate gold chain – the necklace was given to me by my dad many years ago…dad was a big giver, but he usually took us shopping and picked out what we wanted…on this particular year the necklace was a big surprise and it is something I have always cherished.
We also did the Christmas Eve pj present which now looking back is a tradition I enjoyed and have started with my daughter and nieces.
I am usually cold up here in our frozen landscape. A couple of years ago I saw a vest in a catalog that looked very cozy warm and stylish all at the same time. I showed it to my husband. He kind of grunted at me. Guess what was under the Christmas tree? I opened it (still in the shipping package) and pulled out the vest. He just looked at me and said, “And you thought I wasn’t listening.”
It would have to be my diamond ring that my husband gave me to ask me to marry him!!
I’ve received both diamond and pearl earrings over past Christmases. I don’t wear big jewelry, so I alternate these two pair throughout the year. I LOVE their simplicity and love that they were given in!
Prayers and blessings,
Rebecca
I’m in!
On the Christmas after both of our children were born my husband gave me a special piece of jewelry with that babies birthstone. They were special gifts that help me remember their first Christmas.
In 6th grade, my mom bought me a really special and beautiful Christmas dress with a black velvet top and plaid taffeta bottom. I loved it! But then I spilled nail polish remover in my lap and had a huge hole in the skirt! I was crushed…however we were able to get out the sewing machine and fix it by taking in some of the billow-y skirt. Whew!
UGGs – best boots ever! No more frozen toes for me.
My engagement ring on christmas eve
I knitted a scarf for my daughter and gave it to her as a Christmas present. She still has the scarf and wears it proudly to school, telling her friends that her mom made it just for her.
And, this year, she has asked me to make her lots of scarves…for the fashion statement (not necessarily the warmth).
At some point in the late 70′s, I (like every little girl) dreamed of a rabbit coat. My parents refused and although I begged and begged, they continued to say no. I was both shocked and delighted when my grandmother presented me with a rabbit coat for christmas that year!
I was old enough to enjoy the joke when my mom cross stitched a picture later that year for my grandmother that said “when momma says no – ask grandmother”.
I’m in.
Tinsel… yes you heard right… tinsel. My mom would put me and my cousins hair up in a bun and wrap pretty red, silver or gold tinsel around it. We felt like Christmas ourselves!
When I was younger my mom made me a pioneer dress. It was red with little flowers on it. I looked just like the Ingalls girls. This year my mom found the dress and is fixing it up to give to my little girl. I know she’ll love it!
Every Christmas, my husband and I pledge to not getting anything real expensize for eachother. Well one year, he did not obey the rules. As a family we were opening presents, and he opened the one from me, new hankerchiefs. Well then he came in with mine and it was a red winter mountain hardware coat. I loved it! The kids commented, “mom got a coat and dad only got something to wipe his nose with!”
My mom used to make clothes for me when I was little. She taught herself how to sew and did pretty well but sometimes had a bit of trouble gauging the size. When I was in fourth grade she made a pair of blue and white flowered PJs that turned out to be absolutely enormous. The whole family joked that we could have worn them together. Christmas night we went to visit my great-grandparents, like we did every year, and Grandma gave me a pair of red-and-white striped flannel jimmies that she’d made with a small Santa appliqued on the top. When it turned out that they fit perfectly and she’d never even measured me, Mom never heard the end of it!
I still have those striped jimmies and am hoping that my daughter can wear them this year. Grandma has been gone about 12 years now, but her legacy – and her jimmies! – live on.
I’m in
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!
I guess for me it’s Christmas sweaters. I enjoy wearing and giving them. Some year I also hope to knit one.
I’m in!
I’m In.
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.
I’m in.
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!
I’m in
I wanted a pair of Mukluks so bad for Christmas and my parents bought them for me. I still wear them to this day (12 years later!).
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.
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!
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!
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!
I’m in!
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!
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!
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!
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/
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!
i’m in
The most memorible clothing gift I recieved was a yellow crochet sweater from my grandmother when I was in Jr. High.
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
When I was young, my mother made me a dusty rose blazer. Man, I thought that was the best thing!
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
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.
I don’t remember any special gift either…
but I do remember giving my dad a heavy suade winter coat with white fleece lining…
I got a Christmas sweather as a gift one year and wore it several times every Christmas. It’s kind of ratty looking now, so haven’t worn it for a year or two. My kids were always making me Christmas jewelry when they were young, so also have many light bulb reindeer pins, cinnamon stick christmas tree pins, etc.
I’m in!
My favorite piece of clothing I received as a gift was a sweater my husband picked out all by himself the first year we were married. He even got the size right.
A white sweatshirt with a horse and Christmas bells on it that my sister made for me. It was both precious and little ridiculous, but I loved that she made it for me.
i’m in!!!!
what a good idea about praying for those who sent christmas cards! And Elf is a big hit in our household, my 16 y/o dau loves it!
“I’m in!”
One year I wanted New Kids on the Block everything for Christmas. Well during that next year is when the group broke up. That next Christmas my mom had a NKB sweatshirt for me. It was really hard to pretend I liked it. My husband now hold ransom the picture of my in that lovely sweatshirt.
Julie =)
I love everything Christmas and snowmen. Two clothes items that I think are really special were made by my sister-in-law. A Christmas sweatshirt and some Snowman PJ’s.
I have a really neat Santa sweatshirt that my mom gave me. A friend of hers painted it and now is about 15 years old, but it still looks great!
most unusual gift: creme brulee torch!
A vest my Aunt made for me. It is so adorable!!
One Christmas, when my girls were little I made matching dresses for the three of us. I loved them. Of course, now there is no way I could get them to wear matching outfits!
My husband and I were dating – we went to a New Year’s Eve event – I had the most beautiful black dress. He picked it out and I loved it! We have a photo from that night and it brings back lots of fablous memories!
I’m in!
I’m In
My favorite item to wear that was given to me is an LL Bean warm jacket my hubby got me.
My grandmother knitted me a Christmas Sweater that I still have today. I love it. I know they really aren’t “in style” any more, but I proudly wear it because of all the hard work she put into it. It is one thing I will always keep.
the diamond engagement ring that my husband gave to me six years after we got married, as a surprise Valentine’s day gift. i cried my eyes out.
A few years ago, my parents gave my sisters, sister in law, and me each a small diamond pendant. My mom got herself one too. =) A few weeks later, my dad had major bypass surgery. Without discussing it, we all showed up at the hospital wearing our matching pendants. It was…indescribably meaningful to us.
No items that I remember but I’m in!
Last year, our one and a half year old Grandson (and his Mom, our daughter) got to our house for Christmas. Our grandson started talking as soon as he got here and he finally had “names” for my husband and me. He called us “Durandpa and Durandma”. It was great – now we are just Grandpa and Grandma.
I’m in…thanks….
I’m in…
I’m in.
Nothing comes to mind so I guess – I’m in.
From my DH; we called it the Punky Brewster shirt and he wrapped the gift punky brewster style too. We were engaged at the time.
I’m in