My sweet and beautiful granddaughter!

 

Life as a widow

It just doesn't seem real.  Nearly six weeks and it seems I miss him even more.  I feel so lost.  If I didn't have such strong faith in the Lord, the loss would be unbearable.  It's just a vastness of emptiness.  It feels as if he is just gone and will be coming back at any time. 

R.I.P. dearest James

There is no...

sin that God through Jesus cannot forgive.  Ask for forgiveness and come home.  I have the means now to help you. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ks_DQTZMaI

http://www.tomatobubble.com/THANKS.HTML

King Jacob

Ha, ha!  He loved Burger King, so I made him a "crown" out of a paper bag.  This photo is "priceless" to this old Nana! Brings back so many good memories of him.

 

Jake

About two months old!  Precious!

A very young Missy!

So beautiful!  She had no idea of the nightmare that lay ahead of her, and neither did I. 

Wedding 4/31/71

Just wanted Jake to see where he got his reddish, Irish hair.  From me.  Yes, that's me for sure.  Just a baby really (17 3/4 old). No hair dye or bleach.  That came much later. 

Jake

Again, Jacob, I think was somewhere around four months old.  Even at this age, he would grab my face and give me kisses, big sloppy kisses on my cheeks.  LOL  Oh, the joy!  My first grand child!

Melissa's High School Graduation 1995

Melissa with both her parents and grandpa Wayne in background.  Happy day!

Happy Anniversary!

My hubby sent these to me yesterday for our 9th wedding anniversary.  Two dozen red roses.   Nice!

Jacob Matthew, my first grandson. So beautiful!

I'm not sure but I think he was about six months old here.  I was babysitting him while his Mom worked at the Post Office.  He always loved to come to Nana's house.  He knew I would feed him well, and he was always hungry.  He was a big boy and I love him so.  Just as I do his Mom.

Instead of concentrating on the present, I choose to remember the good times.

This was taken in much happier times.  Before she met Ed.  She was beautiful.

Done

with the crying! 

I love this song! Gives me comfort and hope.

Somewhere Out There

1. James Ingram

    

   Somewhere out there beneath the pale moonlight
   Someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight

   Somewhere out there someone's saying a prayer
   That we'll find one another in that big somewhere out there

   And even though I know how very far apart we are
   It helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star

   And when the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby
   It helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky

   Somewhere out there if love can see us through
   Then we'll be together somewhere out there
   Out where dreams come true

   And even though I know how very far apart we are
   It helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star

   And when the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby
   It helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky

   Somewhere out there if love can see us through
   Then we'll be together somewhere out there
   Out where dreams come true

   
   

   Songwriters: STEVE EARLE

    

   © Universal Music Publishing Group

   For non-commercial use only.

   Data from: LyricFind

Pic New Bedspread and Blue Room

Not finished yet, still have to hang pics, but I think I am liking this blue with the white crown molding. 

My Daughter has this! She is so brainwashed, she is going on 21 years with her captor (her husband).

Stockholm syndrome

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For other uses, see Stockholm syndrome (disambiguation).

The location where the 1973 Norrmalmstorg robbery took place in Stockholm, Sweden (2005).

Stockholm syndrome is a condition that causes hostages to develop a psychological alliance with their captors as a survival strategy during captivity.^[1] These feelings, resulting from a bond formed between captor and captives during intimate time spent together, are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims. Generally speaking, Stockholm syndrome consists of "strong emotional ties that develop between two persons where one person intermittently harasses, beats, threatens, abuses, or intimidates the other."^[2] The FBI's Hostage Barricade Database System shows that roughly eight percent of victims show evidence of Stockholm syndrome.^[3]
It was formally named in 1973 when four hostages were taken during a bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden. The hostages defended their captors after being released and would not agree to testify in court against them.^[4] Stockholm syndrome is ostensibly paradoxical because the sympathetic sentiments captives feel towards their captors are the opposite of the fear and disdain an onlooker may feel towards the captors.
There are four key components that generally lead to the development of Stockholm syndrome:

• A hostage's development of positive feelings towards their captor
• No previous hostage-captor relationship
• A refusal by hostages to co-operate with police forces and other government authorities
• A hostage's belief in the humanity of their captor, for the reason that when a victim holds the same values as the aggressor, they cease to be perceived as a threat.^[2][3]

Stockholm syndrome is considered a "contested illness", due to many law enforcement officers' doubt about the legitimacy of the condition.^[4]

History

Nils Bejerot, a Swedish criminologist and psychiatrist coined the term after Stockholm police asked him for assistance with analyzing the victims' reactions to the 1973 bank robbery and their status as hostages. As the idea of brainwashing was not a new concept, Bejerot, speaking on "a news cast after the captives' release" instinctively reduced the hostages' reactions to a result of being brainwashed by their captors.^[4] He called it Norrmalmstorgssyndromet, meaning "The Norrmalmstorg Syndrome"; it later became known outside of Sweden as the Stockholm syndrome.^[5] It was originally defined by psychiatrist Frank Ochberg to aid the management of hostage situations.^[6]

Famous instances

Patty Hearst

Patty Hearst, the granddaughter of publisher William Randolph Hearst, was taken and held hostage by the Symbionese Liberation Army, "an urban guerilla group", in 1974. She was recorded denouncing her family as well as the police under her new name, "Tania", and was later seen working with the SLA to rob banks in San Francisco. She publicly asserted her sympathetic feelings towards the SLA and their pursuits as well. After her 1975 arrest, pleading Stockholm syndrome did not work as a proper defense in court, much to the chagrin of her defense lawyer, F. Lee Bailey. Her seven-year prison sentence was later commuted, and she was eventually presidentially pardoned by Bill Clinton, who was informed that she was not acting under her own free will.^[4]
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