How did it get to be December already? We just had our Gingerbread Village for Habitat for Humanity at All Saints' Church. The hall was filled with every kind of gingerbread house one could imagine, including Fenway Park! Our town newspaper editor was wonderful and ran photos of our run-away Gingerbread Man for several weeks before the event. This year the theme was "A train runs through it..." There were electric trains running through the village in the center of the hall where the replica gingerbread buildings were set up. The librarians made the Adams Library and it looked just like the real thing. There were several church replicas, a school house, and the community college. Next year the theme will be Hansel & Gretel (or maybe fairy tales in general) to go along with the production of the opera Hansel & Gretel which will be the same weekend.
This week starts my grueling rehearsal schedule for two productions of Amahl and the Night Visitors, the Boston Pops Christmas concerts, and coming in to the home stretch of Verdi's Requiem. I love, love, love singing, but this may be a bit much. It is a relief though from the woes of the world and the Presidential campaign.
St. Nicholas Day is coming up, which marks my 32nd wedding anniversary. I can't believe a life-time has gone by so quickly.
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The gingerbread village is such a great program, for a great cause! Our favorite part of the Chelmsford winter holiday night is to come down and see the houses.
This year it was nice to see more "amaturish" houses. I think we'll have an entry next year.
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