“We Have a Winner, Wednesday!”: Amber Snow! Congratulations, Amber!

Please e-mail me with your address, and we will get your soaps in the mail. However, there is a slight proviso to this particular contest. Hero Hubby and the Family have agreed that Tammie Lewis, Miss Early Bird…Miss OverAchiever…got right in there with all of the answers and they were correct, except #7 which is partially correct( thus doing the bulk of the work for those of you that apparently copied your way through school), so she and her princess will be receiving one bar on us for being such a wealth of information! ;0)

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Here are the answers: 1.William Booth, and his wife Catherine 2. England 3. Oakland Ferry Landing, California 4. December 1891 5. Captain Joseph McFee 6. To provide dinner for the destitute and poverty stricken, and now dinner is also served at Thanksgiving as well 7. Coffee, donuts and blankets were provided during WWII at no charge. This was huge, as many charitable organizations charge during a time of crisis.  The Salvation Army never has and never will. 8. False 9. False 10. It is a part of the Universal Christian Church 11. “Blood and Fire” is the motto of the Salvation Army 12. 90 years, making them the longest running entry in the Rose Parade.

We will have one more giveaway for this calendar year, to be announced and begin play, next Wednesday, December 30, 2009.

I am in love…

with “another man.”

It’s a love that is deep and constantly abiding…

Has been…

ever since I was a little girl.

And tuned in with millions of my closest fellow Americans…

first, once a week for the show…

and then annually for the Christmas program.

My mother has shared the same adoration complex with me…

So imagine our shock, then surprise, then absolute anticipatory joy…

(Geez, Teri, get a grip, will you?)

When Son #1 and Hero Hubby presented the two of us

with an early Christmas present.

Box seat tickets to…

The Andy Williams Christmas Show.

It was Sunday evening…

At the McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert.

I’d like to tell you that my love affair with this man has dwindled…

After his spectacular performance, that would be a blatant lie.

He opened with “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”…

the Christmas song that I have personally adopted as my annual theme for jest and sarcasm…

but dearly love.

He closed the evening with “Moon River”.

He even brought back the dancing bear from his television program.

I was prepared to hurl myself over the banister of my private box and onto the stage…

then thought better of it.

It is an action absolutely lacking in proper decorum and personal self-governance.

I did, however, come home with an autographed copy of his memoirs…

and a beautiful souvenir program of the Christmas tour.

SIGH.

My life could very possibly be complete.

p.s.  Son #1 very casually inquired as to whether or not he had mentioned to me…

that one of his co-workers has a high school friend…

that is married to Andy.

I think I know who I am going to be “getting to know better” in the new year!

Kidding…

No really.

I am kidding…

Do I look to be the stalker type?!

What iconic Christmas album/singer/or entertainer can YOU not live without…

at “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year?”