Hello! I’m Pat Estes. I’ve lived longer than the other women in our group of bloggers and have more history to share ☺️My late husband, Bill Estes and I grew up in Northwest Iowa and went to high school there. We were high school sweethearts and started dating...
I’ve been wanting to write about grief for several weeks now. Maybe not exactly wanting to but feeling God nudging me to do so. I have found this to be a hard time of year for me. By November 11 four years ago, Bill had been in hospice for 55 days. He lost his battle...
First of all, I need to say our marriage didn’t start out with us praying together. We usually avoided talking about anything spiritual at all. Truthfully, our marriage was in trouble. We were both doing our own thing and going our way. We had moved to Sioux Center,...
I have to admit when I shared this with a couple of friends just a couple months after I had lost Bill I really didn’t intend for it to be shared with any more than those two people. But since I’m doing this series on marriage and this was my advice to them, I really...
If you no longer had your husband, would you regret anything about your time together? What would you wish you would have known before he was gone? Pat shares with us, from personal experience, what she wishes she would have known before Bill was gone. This week...