I’ve got a full plate to deal with in the next five days–and that’s not even including the food we’ll be eating on Thanksgiving itself.

My husband and I are redoing our daughters’ bathroom, starting today (Wednesday) and working straight through Sunday with a short break for dinner on Thursday. We’ve got to take the walls down to studs, demolish the tile wall (they tiles are fall off of the walls), redo the tub, and more. There is a leak in the bathroom, and we need to deal with this problem now before it becomes a major disaster. So though I would love to be taking advantage of Black Friday sales in the next few days, I’m going to be up to my elbows in grout and who knows what else.

That means that until next Monday, when I post again, here is my virtual yule log (like the New York TV station WPIX used to run during the holidays when I was a kid). This should keep you feeling warm and fuzzy in the interim.

In the meantime, post a comment and let me know what topics you’d like to have me tackle in December. The survey I’ve been running this month ends on Sunday, so please feel free to add any ideas on what I can do to make this blog better and more valuable to you.

I am very thankful for your loyal readership, and it’s been my honor to bring you my ideas, via the blog, for the past year and a half. Thank you for sticking around.