Leslie Gould

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I hope you'll enjoy reading my novels as much as I treasured sorting and capturing the emotions and words to write them. Please send me an e-mail. I would love to hear from you. Please SCROLL DOWN for more information, updates, and to follow my BLOG, including “400 days, stateside” posts (short glimpses of what it’s like for a military family during deployment).

 NEW BOOK! 

The Amish Nanny

by Mindy Starns Clark and Leslie Gould

Visit my amazing co-author, Mindy Starns Clark!

Also pick up the book that started it all....

 

The Amish Midwife

 by Mindy Starns Clark and Leslie Gould

  

"The Amish Midwife" was #1 on ECPA bestseller list for fiction and CBA bestseller list for fiction in March and April, 2011, respectively!!!

49 days of deployment left: surprise videos

Have you seen the youtube videos where a soldier-dad jumps out of a box? Or the one where a husband surprises his wife at a baseball game, home earlier than she'd thought?

Even though I don't really like surprises, in general, I'd be thrilled with one of those. We're just weeks away until Peter starts traveling home...

Day 54: funny cards

We have a friend who has sent Peter funny cards through this whole deployment. They make him laugh when he gets them--and then again when he shows me over Skype. Isn't that great? And so simple. I love those little things that make a big difference.

Less that fifty-four days until this deployment is over--much, much fewer until Peter starts home!

Day 63: best and worst

As we're counting down the days until Peter is stateside, less than 30 (hopefully!), I've been thinking about homecomings. Here's a photo of him with our boys after he came home from Germany in 1991, after Desert Storm:

Day 72: a good year

When it started, I thought 2011 might be one of our worst years. But it hasn’t been. Sure it’s been one of our hardest, but a lot of good has come from it.

That was evident on Christmas morning as we skyped with Peter. We were so thankful for the good connection and for all of us to be “together” that we hardly noticed we really weren’t.

Although we still have 72 days until Peter’s orders for 400 days of deployment end, we only have about a month until he’s stateside again. It’s great to be getting so close!

Day 80: Christmas greetings

This Christmas season a few really nice people have told me they know deployment is as hard on the families as the soldiers. But really it's not. We get a decent night's sleep every night. Our bathrooms are a step away, not down a cold, dark street. My food is fresh and tasty, every single day. No rockets here. Just lots of support instead.

Still, I couldn't help but tear up a little at this sweet PSA shared by my friend Libby. If you know people in the military or working with the military, remember them this Christmas by sending an email or FB greeting. It will mean the world to them--and to their families too.