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Welcome to day two of the Week of Giveaways! We start today with author David Moore, author and speaker (follow him on Twitter @dgemoore). He has a new book out that is perfect as a Father’s Day gift, so it’s just in time for those of you stuck on ideas.
It’s called The Last Men’s Book You’ll Ever Need
It’s a Christian book, to be sure, but it’s not preachy – Moore writes in a Dave Barry-esque style that provides mental food for chewing, not sermons for yawning. My husband has been enjoying this book before bed, and I’ve been reading over his shoulder from time to time. My favorite chapter so far is “Don’t Blow Your Brains Out,” a short essay about the decline of quality reading material in everyday family’s libraries.
Each chapter stands alone, so you can skip around and read what interests you, or you can read it cover to cover. I highly recommend Moore’s book for the man in your life – especially if you’re short on Father’s Day gift ideas!
B&H Publishing is giving five Simple Mom readers a copy of The Last Men’s Book You’ll Ever Need
To win, here’s how to enter:
Leave a comment at this post, answering the following question: What’s your favorite quality in your husband or father?
The giveaway is open worldwide, and it lasts until this Friday, May 29. I’ll draw the two winners this weekend.
I hope you win! Check back in a few hours for another giveaway.
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It’s hard to pick just one thing…but everything stems from the fact that my husband is the most godly person I know. He takes his role as spiritual leader very seriously and prays for us daily. He’s amazing and I love him dearly.
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My husband is so kind and helps with everything. He is the best man I have ever known!
My favorite quality is a man that will listen when you talk and not criticize. Constructive criticism is alright (when done gently).
My husband and father are both kids at heart, which is one of the reasons I love them both dearly.
My favorite quality in my husband is his compassion for others and he is such a hard worker.
My favorite thing about my husband is his sense of humor. Even though it drives me crazy sometimes! : )
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There are so many great qualities about my husband, but I really love his patience – he is so patient with me and our little boy, which is wonderful because I don’t have much patience myself.
My dh’s sense of humor!
My favorite quality about my husband is his compassion (his great big heart!) This looks like a wonderful book! =D
My husband is so thoughtful!
I am most proud of my father because he wasn’t a great dad to me. However, he realized it in time to learn how to be a great grandpa to my kids! I’m blessed because he recognizes his mistakes and makes sure he doesn’t do it with my kids. He’s the best grandpa around! Thru his grandkids, he realized his parenting deficiencies and has made amends. Jesus has done a lot of healing thru this process and I get to experience a whole new, healthier side of my dad thru my kids!
My husband is a man of his word. If he says something, you know its going to happen. His word is his bond.
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My husbands work ethic blows my mind. He does so much for our family, and I’m so grateful.
I appreciate my husband’s dependability & failthfulness
I love my husband’s gentleness and kindness to our family and me. He is the strongest physically of all of us but gives the best hugs and has genuine interest in us. He doesn’t push, yell or scream to get someone in line. The kids love being around him.
In my husband, I have to love the quality that gives him the strength and the maturity to be a father AND daddy to two little girls that are not biologically his. He is not a stepfather. He is daddy 100%.
In my father, I just admire that he loves me no matter what. I’ve been stupid and immature, and my dad still loves me and accepts me unconditionally. He knows the true love of a parent.
Among many great qualities I love my husband’s willingness to help out with the kids. Especially since he let me get away by myself for 3 days to visit a friend!
He is very generous, and he loves me like I’ve never been loved before.
I love how quick my husband is to forgive! He is such a wonderful example to me.
My husband is such a patient, easy-going man.
My husband loves all my weird quirks…that other people probably find annoying.
I love my husband’s silliness with our daughter! Everything is a game–even when he has her on work days (he works from home and watches her the 2 days a week I work outside our home) he makes time for play. I love that!
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There are so many, but my favorite has to be his desire to put God first in everything he does, every decision he makes.
My husband takes very seriously his role as a provider for our family. That, and his sense of humor, are my favorite qualities about him.
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I love that my husband is so smart. You can ask him about anything and he can tell you. He is very attentive to our needs too. He is just a great husband and father.
When we first met, my husband’s spontaneous, try-anything nature was a wonderful complement to my very rule-based, schedule-oriented style. Nearly 17 years later, we still balance each other out – and it’s great that our kids (5 1/2 and almost 3) will grow up seeing two very different approaches to ‘getting things done’ and knowing that both work!
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My husband is genuine. He doesn’t pretend to be anyone he’s not.
I’m sure that I’m attracted to my tall, kind, hairy, quiet, geeky, handsome husband because of my tall, kind, hairy, quiet, geeky, handsome father. I love all these similarities. I also love that they are different in their humor and other ways as well. I appreciate my clean and methodical father when my messy, haphazard husband drives me crazy, but I appreciate my husband when I think of how uptight my dad can be. I hope that my husband and I can get it together to provide ourselves with the financial security that my father seems to have created/manifested in his life. Both my husband and father are great fathers and add a great deal of love to my life.
I love that my husband is a hard worker and will do everything he can to provide for his family, physically and spiritually. His faith in the Lord is so great.. he never gives up and is always living in expectation and excitement for what God is gonna do next. Helps me to remember that life is an adventure and that God is good ALL the time!
I appreciate that my husband can fix just about anything in our house… He has saved us a lot of money during the last year as we have been remodeling our house!
My favorite quality in my husband is his hard working spirit. He works with his full heart at whatever he’s doing and I love him all the more for it
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My favorite thing about my husband is his desire to lead our family in a Godly way. He’s so humble, and such a servant to our family and to others.
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Hard working and he does not complain
He is a thinker, thinks everything through before he buys, or does anything. That has taught me a lot.
My husband’s big heart! His unconditional love for my son and I is something I cherish.
My Hubby is really kind and thoughtful! Love you Bunny!
I love my husband’s loyalty and helpfulness. I feel so blessed by him!
My husband is the most phenomenal communicator. He engages people’s hearts and loves them well.
That’s a hard question, but if I had to pick one thing that kind of encompasses everything, I would say his consistency. He is consistently a patient, loving, even-tempered husband and father. When I get all out of whack, he doesn’t!
I love that my husband knows how to make me laugh when I’m not seeing the humor in things. I tend to be too serious, and he helps lighten the mood.
I love the fact that my husband is a great dad. He loves to play with his sons and spend time with them. I also appreciate that he doesn’t mind scratching my back every night — this is our quiet time to talk – snuggled together while the kids are asleep.
I like that he can engage anyone in meaningful conversation – a skill I am trying to learn to be confident about. I like that he loves me as unabashedly as I love him, and is not embarrassed to show it.
My DH’s sense of humor meshes perfectly with mine–we have a lot of fun together.
Definitely that my husband is absolutely committed to showing our daughter what a godly man looks like – in how he treats me, how he treats her, how he does his job, how he interacts with others, his hobbies & interests, etc. His life is truly an example of what integrity and compassion look like and I am overwhelmed with gratitude that I get to spend my life with him!!
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My most favorite quality in my husband is his patience!! He is so loving and peaceful and calming with me and our children.
My husband is so good with our son. He loves spending time with him, and will spend his evenings entertaining him so that I can get some things done I can’t get done during the day. And he always is the one to give him his evening bath and put him to bed.
My favorite quality of my husband is how silly he is with our kids. I could never be that way with them. Just the other day in the car our little girl kept repeating momma in a high pitched squeal and sounded like she was about to blow. He kept mimicking her in a higher pitch and she started mimicking him and then broke out laughing. He finds humor in so many things that are daily annoyances to me. Thanks for the giveaway.
Great sense of humor!
My favorite quality in my husband is patience, since I have none. I can usually count on him to be calm in stressful situations, and especially when dealing with the kids.
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My husband is a hard worker. Even if he does not know how to do something he will take the time to learn and then still complete the task.
My favorite quality is that he cooks! He’s not much of a reader, but if he saw that this was the “last book” I’d give him, he might like it!
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favorite quality of my hubby? don’t make me pick one!
he continues to pursue me
he makes me laugh and gets my random sense of humor
he gets it done. lots of people talk about caring for those in need – he’s actually brought someone home who needed a shower and a meal.
his compassion for people
his arms – i love being squeezed
He loves us – more than anything. That is what makes him awesome.
My favorite quality in my husband is his Christlikeness. He shows this in the way he loves me even thought I am imperfect and forgives all my mistakes.
My husband gives the best cuddles – they always make me feel special and safe.
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His patience. He puts up with me, so he must have a lot!
My favorite quality of my husband is his humility and willingness to change when he sees he is wrong, or not doing things the best way. And of course, his relationship with our little girls!
My husbands patience with the children is so awesome!
My husband is a VERY hard worker, and I love that about him.
Gosh, what DON’T I like about my love, my friend, my husband. He is the smartest person I have ever met, but has managed to NEVER make me feel stupid. (Blond a few times, but not stupid!) He’s very anal, and that’s a GOOD thing (remember my blond moments!), and he loves me. We celebrate our FIRST 24th anniversary next week, and I can hardly wait to get the next 24 started!
My husband is just a great dad! He would do anything for his kids!
My favorite quality (not necessarily his best, but my fav) is that he is an extrovert and truth-teller. Being an introvert and peace-keeper, he balances me out wonderfully.
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After 8 years I am still not tired of his sense of humor and he still puts up with my nagging.
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Looks like a good one!
I love that my husband is so tender and nurturing with our girls. They clearly have him wrapped around their little fingers, and I love watching the relationship develop between them. It warms my heart!
My husband still has this child-like wonder and approach to the world around him. It is a pretty special thing to see him sharing this with our kids!
Persistance. My husband is great at being persistant. He sets a goal and doesn’t quit until he achieves it. I just love that.
His wanting to grow more Christ-like! And that he loves the Lord!!
I love how my husband is so easy-going and laid-back. He is the exact opposite of me; I tend to be a bit high-strung and stressed out. He calms me.
One of my favorite qualities about my husband is that he loves to have fun and constantly encourages us to do fun things as a couple and a family.
So hard to pick just one thing! One of the first things that drew me to my husband is how honest and kind and caring he is…and not just toward me, but toward everyone he comes in contact with. It means a lot to me to know his integrity runs deep. He’s also an incredibly hard worker, very intelligent and just a whole lot of fun!
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How my husband is a hard worker and provides for us – just like my dad did.
My husband is very sensible and patient. I also think that he is a great dad to our kids!
I love that my husband shares all responsibilites… even cleaning toilets!
There are so many, but the best quality in my husband is that he is so present in our lives. We get to experience all he has to offer bc he is an actively involved dad and partner. Our lives are so much better and richer because he chooses and wants to be here. We hit the husband/daddy jackpot with this guy!
In my father it would be unconditional love. In my husband, he says it’s because he can cook better than me (possibly true) but the very first characteristic that attracted me to him was his gentlemanliness! He carried a hankie – imagine that! lol
What a great gift for the hard to please guy! I need this!
My favorite quality in my husband would be his ability to find the humor in a rough day!
I love how my husband is always striving to improve himself. He’s a great man who loves his family.
My husband always thinks and prays before he decides to do anything. That means he also thinks and prays before he tells me he doesn’t like something that I’m doing, or did. I’m sure the list of things he would talk to me is much narrower for it than if he were to just blurt out whatever he was thinking. You can’t beat that!
My favorite quality in both is sense of humor. One of them has made me laugh almost every day of my life!
My husband has a great listening ear. I feel very loved by how he takes what I say seriously.
The quality of my dads’ is his humor. He is sooo funny and “out there”. My kids have developed their sense of humor by being around him. It’s great.
The quality of my husband is his patience. He balances my lack thereof.
My favorite quality about my dad is his love for music. When I was a kid, he would tell me a story at bedtime, then he’d pull out his 12-string guitar and sing me lullabies. He’s also played the piano for the last 50 years. Recently, he’s been practicing a Rachmaninoff piece he learned in 10th grade. He just started up piano lessons again with his first piano teacher and my daughter is going with him for her first lessons. Such a precious legacy that she and I can share.
There are a ton of things I love about him. The best are probably that he loves Jesus and is so dedicated to his marriage and family.
My husband makes our family a priority in all things- its such a blessing!
My favorite quality in my husband has to be his ability to spot a need or problem and then jump in and help. He is infinitely helpful to me as a mom and wife.
My husband is so dedicated to our family and raising our children. Just watching him interact with our children makes my heart melt. I am so grateful for him and for his love every single day!
He is very sensitive and caring.
My husband is a great guy with lots of wonderful qualities so it’s hard to pick just one! But, since I have to, I’ll say his sense of humor. He is always making us laugh and can see the lighter side in almost any situation.
My husband’s willingness to help- anything from dishes to diapers!
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My husband’s honesty/trustworthiness – I never have to doubt him (such a relief in this day & age).
Oh I can’t just pick one……His sense of humor, his determination, his desire to make me truly happy and the overwhelming joy he shares with our three sons! I am very blessed!
I’m so blessed by my husband’s dedication to the Lord above all.
my fave quality? how can I choose?
I love that he is MINE. My S-Boy.
My favorite quality about my husband is his gentleness. I can’t say that and not smile.
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I love how hard my husband works to make me feel wanted, loved, and needed. I’m pregnant with our first and it’s been a bit of a rough ride and he has really really stepped up in a way that blows my mind!
One of my husband’s best qualities is that he is a great listener. My favorite is that he is incredibly handy and good with tools. It blows me away that he can figure out how to do things without any prior experience or explicit instruction.
My hubby is just a great dad! He relate well with the kids! He is very much like my Dad. Kids all gravitate to them.
He is a great listener and loves us all so unconditionally.
My favorite trait in my husband is how passionate he is about his faith. It inspires me and others to live out our faith more fervently.
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Funny, wise, caring, and practical.
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