Inspy Romance

Inspy Romance—Fall in Love With a Good Book

Sunday Edition

by

It’s the end of September!

This is my last Sunday edition for a while. Valerie will be taking over as we shift into October. I’ve enjoyed spending the last two months with y’all on Sundays!

My boys (hubby and two sons) are out camping this weekend with their Trail Life troop. They always look forward to this weekend where they get to do fun things like shoot rifles, hike, tie knots, and all those sorts of manly activities.

I’m always grateful when they’re like “Mom, you don’t have to come if you don’t want to.” I love spending time with the family out in nature. But tents are not really my jam.

Are you a happy tent camper?

Winners this Week

If you’re a winner, you should have received an email from the author in charge of the giveaway. If not, please email us at: prizes at inspyromance dot com.

Hallee Bridgeman’s winner was Kathy Schnitz!

Marion Ueckermann’s winners were Susan H and Glenda!

Lesley McDaniel’s winners were Denise and Pam!

Congratulations!

Don’t forget… every comment you make qualifies you to win one of the monthly Amazon card giveaways!

Specials this Week

A Date for Daisy by Tara Grace Ericson is 99c through October 3rd.

Hoping for Hawthorne by Tara Grace Ericson is FREE through October 3rd.

Fall in Love at the Miss Snowflake Pageant by Valerie Comer is 99c through September 30.

Reader Gathering

Did you know Inspy Romance hosts a Christian Romance Reader Gathering group on Facebook? Tara Grace Ericson will be taking over the group this week – you won’t want to miss it! Join us… but don’t forget to answer the questions for admittance!

Last Week on Inspy Romance

On Monday, Julie Arduini talked about curveballs.
On Tuesday, Lindi Peterson talked about playlists for novels.
On Wednesday, Angela Ruth Strong talked about 10 types of readers.
On Thursday, Liwen Ho talked about her top 10 pickup lines.
On Friday, Deb Kastner talked about gratitude.
On Saturday, Merrillee Whren asked what you do for love.

Next Week on Inspy Romance

Monday: Narelle Atkins
Tuesday: Laurie Larsen
Wednesday: Sally Bayless
Thursday: Shannon Taylor Vannatter
Friday: Toni Shiloh
Saturday: Jaycee Weaver

New Releases

September 2020

Marry Me for Real, Cowboy (Cavanagh Cowboys Romance 1) by Valerie Comer
Finding Love for the Playboy (Matchmaking Moms of Oceanview Church 4) by Laurie Larsen
Sing with Me (Seaside Chapel 3) by Jan Thompson
Lavender and Lace (Bloom Sisters 3) by Tara Grace Ericson
Dancing in the Rain (Heart of Africa) by Marion Ueckermann
In an English Vintage Garden by Marion Ueckermann
In Step with Me (Seaside Chapel 2, expanded re-issue of Step with Me) by Jan Thompson

October 2020

Finding Love for the Matchmaker (Matchmaking Moms of Oceanview Church 5) by Laurie Larsen
Pray for Me (Vacation Sweethearts 5) by Jan Thompson
Something Borrowed: a Christmas Weddings Collection by Toni Shiloh, Jaycee Weaver, Andrea Boyd, and 2 others
Love Pact with the Hero (Heroes of Freedom Ridge 2) by Liwen Y. Ho
Hope for Freedom (Hope Ranch 4) by Elizabeth Maddrey
Ride with Me (Chapel Cove Romances 10) by Marion Ueckermann

A complete list of Inspy Romance books by our authors is always available on our BOOKS tab. Find our audiobooks, our permanently free e-books, and our thank-you gifts for newsletter subscribers there as well!

Elizabeth Maddrey (292 Posts)

Elizabeth Maddrey is a semi-reformed computer geek and homeschooling mother of two who lives in the suburbs of Washington D.C. When she isn’t writing, Elizabeth is a voracious consumer of books. She loves to write about Christians who struggle through their lives, dealing with sin and receiving God’s grace on their way to their own romantic happily ever after.


Comments

  1. In my younger days I loved being a Royal Ranger leader in Oz. Camping with troops of children was always wonderfully challenging. Also noisy, messy, and often wet.

    Some really deep conversations regarding the Lord, family & school issues often popped up during KP duties.

    Now my body prefers a bed. Conversations though are still welcome.

  2. Welcome Elizabeth! Enjoy your Sunday. Never enjoyed camping, especially not in a tent. Did my share of camping as a teen and again when our kids were young. My father in law had a motor home and we enjoyed that for several years. Prefer hotels. Enjoy the cooler days of fall. Best wishes.

  7. I used to love camping in the tent with my family growing up. When my parents bought a small camper, I thought we were so spoiled! I had the hammock bed above my parents, as my younger sister was afraid of heights. The poor quality sleep didn’t affect me then like it does now. I can’t sleep in a tent anymore, period. I have a hard time sleeping in any bed–nice hotel or otherwise–that’s not my own. And the different sounds and temperatures? I can’t handle it anymore. I’m getting old! :)

  9. My parents took me camping in Yosemite National Park when I was about 2 months old, and they didn’t even have a tent yet! They told me stories of people walking past their sleeping bag making comments about “that poor little baby” :-) I don’t mind a tent as long as there’s enough room to roll off the airbed and get myself up before hitting the side of the tent :-) We do have a pop-up trailer that’s even more comfortable. But I’m always happy to get home to my bed :-)

  11. We tent-camped for many years, but we went to a truck camper and then to a travel trailer eventually. We’d been going less often since I had a fulltime job – it was just so much work. We love the RV because you can leave it mostly set up and ready to go, so we could go more often again! All you need to do is shift food from your fridge/kitchen and clean clothes and away you go.

    Now, I would say we love the travel trailer for the following reasons:
    1. The fridge. We still cook mostly over a campstove or the campfire, but not messing with a cooler and ice makes a huge difference in what we can fix for meals. (Also, hubby does the cooking when we’re camping, huge win for me!)
    2. The bed. When we were younger, we could handle the hard ground no problem, but not so much as we’ve gotten older. A good night’s sleep is vital to enjoying the rest of the experience!
    3. The bathroom. Yup, that’s only #3. Most campgrounds have passable facilities, but the RV enables us to park by a random creek or lake without a campground and manage just fine.
    4. A place to retreat in inclement weather. Getting cold and wet in a small tent with no way to dry out easily is not much fun, so if the weather looked iffy, we’d just stay home. Now we laugh at the weather. Our grandgirls were glued to the windows this summer watching hail bounce off the picnic table and the wind bend the bushes. No worries. We were warm, dry, and safe.

    You all KNOW how much I love getting out in nature! There is absolutely nothing like sipping that first morning coffee beside a fog-shrouded lake listening to the loons to bring peace to my soul.

    And you all ALSO know you’re going to get a bunch of my summer camping pictures in October and November Sunday Editions, right?!?! See you next week…

  12. Ha. I do love the nature aspect. And the things you list are part of why we think we’d like to rent an RV and give that a shot. We’d probably end up looking at trailers vs an RV were we to buy, but it’s not as easy to rent a trailer to try out (at least not that I’ve found).

    And for me, I guess I’m a snob, but I don’t find the facilities at most campgrounds passable. The bathroom probably hits #2 on my list (after #1 a better night’s sleep) :)

  13. Some of my most treasured memories come from camping, but none of them have to do with being comfortable (unless you count sleeping in freezing weather and still being warm). Pretty much all those memories are “in spite of” something. Like surviving a thunderstorm up in the mountains of southern France when I was a teenager (and learning the French word for “thunderstorm”. BONUS!). I can understand Valerie Comer’s appreciation of a fog shrouded lake, though. Or overlooking a sunset from the rim of the Grand Canyon. Or seeing a canopy of fall colors over a country lane in New Hampshire. Or enjoying a quiet morning on a dock overlooking Mobile bay near the Alabama Gulf Coast. Hmm. Sounds like God’s nature has a few things worth working for. But I must confess that the Grand Canyon involved a hotel stay and Mobile bay was from a B&B visit. Hmm. Sounds like there may be some middle ground. :)

  15. I was a girl scout as a young girl & remember going on camping trips. Though we slept in cabins instead of tents, I loved all things outdoorsy! My family was huge on camping so I have also slept in a tent, sleeping bag and all. I love cooking hot dogs over a fire and enjoying nature, fishing, taking a walk in the woods, and etc. I haven’t been camping for a very long time, so my idea now is a travel trailer or something along that line because I certainly can’t see myself sleeping on the hard ground (or even on an air mattress) in a tent! My body would protest the next morning…lol! But I would still enjoy doing all things outdoors, being close to God’s creation always brings me such peace.

    Happy SONday Inspy Romance! It was great to “hang out” with you Elizabeth, thanks for sharing all your pictures and telling us about your family. I enjoy getting to know an authors “normal” life….you know, outside of writing, lol!

  17. To be fair, in the last ten years, we’ve also done two road trips down the Oregon/northern California coast, staying in hotels every night. And we’ve rented a cottage by the ocean for a few days at least three times. And did the tent thing ONCE in that time period LOL.

  20. Motorhomes have their place for sure. We prefer the trailer because we already have a truck, and we almost always disconnect the trailer and have a vehicle we can drive to a trailhead or into town for groceries or whatever, without having to take the entire rig. It’s perfect for us. :)

  21. I’ve actually never stayed in a bad one, but I’ve heard stories! My sisters and I took Mom on some birthday trips starting when she turned 80, and stayed in B & B’s. Some of them were really great, and some weren’t. All were experiences, and we had fun for the most part.

  22. Thank you for spending 2 months with us, I enjoyed it. Congratulations to the winners! I do fine in a tent for maybe 2 days at the most, but my kind of camping is in a cabin. :) Have a Great week and a relaxing time. Stay safe. God Bless you and your family. Thank you so Very Much.

  26. I have’t done any camping since I was a kid with my family. I guess I like my creature comforts!

    Enjoy your quiet time=)

  28. I always enjoyed camping but I love staying in a RV Love to fish and hike and having a campfire in the evening making roasted marshmallow’s and smores with the grandchildren Have a Beautiful Sunday Everyone!

  34. I’d rather be a glamper with all of the amenities!

    Congratulations to the winners!

    Thank you for my win.

  35. Hi! My hubby & I have camped since our honeymoon – in tents, in the back of a pick-up, inside our compact car like the homeless (honeymoon), in the snow, in 100+F heat, and while both bear and coons ran wild outside our tent. We still camp outside in a tent once a year during the annual Osh Kosh Airshow in WI under the wing of our airplane for a few nights (cancelled this year). We both absolutely love the outdoors. I will admit to preferring Clean housing vacationing these days, but I would Always chose our tent or car over a dirty, loud, smelly, bug-infested room any day (which we experienced during our honeymoon – thus the car camping episodes while we passed thru certain urban areas). Lol. We’ve shared many crazy experiences over the years w quite the stories. ;)

  36. PS. My hubby was a Boy Scout & still lives the Scout Creed, believes it, & can quote it. He says Scouts showed him how to be a man and to survive in the wild.

  37. That would be true!! Lol!! My family always went to visit family when my sisters and I were growing up! We never stayed in a hotel on trips, or camped! With 2 adults and 4 girls, it would have been a tad much!

  38. I camped since I was a baby & still do at the same campsite down the highway. I met my husband there when I was 8-9 years old. We were best friends right away & we both brought up our best friends from home & lived 5 minutes away from each other. I’ve camped in a camper. We had a shed made into a bedroom for more then 3 people & we always hung out in there. We also slept outside on a swing or in tents or a deck. When our daughter was born she started camping right away & loved camping in a tent.

  39. My family loves to camp from a tent to a trailer. I met my wife when we were kids & we camped together in tents as kids till we became adults. We have our daughter & puppy & they love it also.

Discover more from Inspy Romance

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading