It started quiet, this little holiday promotion of ours. The cold silence of Thanksgiving and Black Friday spread into the weekend, leaving all of us huddle down in the trenches and despondently reread the letters and coupon circulars sent from the home front.

Fortunately, there was a surge late in the evening on Cyber Monday and we managed to drive back the heartless, robotic horde. For now.

While we retrench, we’re going to leave up the special pricing for a few more days. However, we can’t guarantee delivery by the holidays on any orders placed after December 1st. Unless you’re planning on celebrating the anniversary of the reunion of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1859. Then you should be fine.

Thanks to everyone who took part. The sweepstakes winner has been notified and, honestly, they weren’t selected at random so much as because they wrote a very nice little note that made T.M. cry.

(We know it’s not difficult to get him to let the old eyewater flow, but this was a special note. Trust us.)

[The special pricing and contest has ended. Thanks to everyone who took part!]

* And an early shout out to our Moldavian/Wallachian readers. Happy Reunification Day!