Summer update

Well... I know it has been a long long time since I actually posted something about our family!  So much has happened.  Greg lost his job about a month ago, we are expecting a baby boy in December and are moving from Maine to Washington (yes across the country!).  We have been feeling called to missions for quite a while and with Greg loosing his job, it was the last push we needed to take the step to pursue it!  We are moving back into my mom's house and we will both be going back to school for a more formal Biblical education, and some training in missions/leadership.  With moving back home, we can downsize our living costs and possessions and really focus on what God has for us. 

We left our home in New England after much help from some great friends (we couldn't have packed our trailer without them!) and then weighed our trailer and we were 3000 lbs over the Axel weight... So with it being about 2am, we had to wait until U-Haul opened in the morning so we could unpack a lot of things and pack up a U-Box and ship a ton of our things (we don't have much left... everything had fit in a 16 ft utility trailer!).

We did celebrate our baby girl's first birthday in New Hampshire and then another party in Colorado!

We are now in Wyoming after spending a few weeks in Eastern Colorado/Wyoming with family and friends, and are slowly making our way to Washington, spending time with family along the way.  We are now at Greg's Aunt's house and probably spending a little more time then planned, just to help her out with some of the little things that need fixing around her house!

The Iron Women of the Word will be taking up our regular posts again this fall, we all were crazy busy this summer with kids, moving, husbands, church and well just life in general! 

I thank you for continuing your following and will be posting this fall on our journey into missions, parenthood of 3!, being a stay at home mom who is homeschooling preschool one more year, living with my mom on a farm (yes we will be getting animals!!! WOO HOO!) and so much other things that we will be going through!

Blue Skies Tomorrow Book Tour

To celebrate the release of Blue Skies Tomorrow, the final installment of the Wings of Glory series, Sarah is giving one lucky winner A Vintage Kindle Prize Package!

Read what the reviewers are saying here.

One winner will receive:

* Kindle with Wi-Fi

* Handmade vintage apron for you and a friend (see a photo here)

* Blue Skies Tomorrow (for Kindle)

To enter just click one of the icons below. But, hurry, giveaway ends on 9/10. Winner will be announced on 9/12 at Sarah Sundin's blog. Details and official rules can be found when entering the contest.

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About the book:

Lt. Raymond Novak prefers the pulpit to the cockpit, but at least his stateside job training B-17 pilots allows him the luxury of a personal life. As he courts Helen Carlisle, a young war widow and mother who conceals her pain under a frenzy of volunteer work, the sparks of their romance set a fire that flings them both into peril. After Ray leaves to fly a combat mission at the peak of the air war over Europe, Helen takes a job in a dangerous munitions yard and confronts an even graver menace in her own home. Will they find the courage to face their challenges? And can their young love survive until blue skies return?

Want more? Read the press release.

About Sarah:

Sarah Sundin received the 2011 Writer of the Year Award from the Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference, and her second novel A Memory Between Us is a finalist for an Inspirational Readers' Choice Award. Her stories are inspired by her great-uncle who flew with the U.S. Eighth Air Force in England during World War II.

Sarah lives in California with her husband and three children. Visit with Sarah online at www.sarahsundin.com.

MY REVIEW:

I really enjoyed this book.  It was hard to read at times due to the pain that Helen was fighting and the struggles that each of the characters had to deal with.  There were times when I was very upset about the way that Helen was treated by her inlaws, son, and others in the community and how she allowed it.  But over all it was a great love story that brought back the old time romancing that gentlemen used to do.  I love old war romances, and was not disapointed by this story at all.  I am looking forward to reading the other two books in the series and following more of the Novak family!  This is a first novel that I have read by Sundin, and was very impressed by the research that she did for her book.