Oh Gosh! Murphy's Law strikes again. If something can go wrong, it will -- and that at the worst possible time. As when our dishwasher suddenly sprung a leak a couple weeks back just as we were halfway through the second load of Thanksgiving dishes.

Suggestion: Are you good friends with a neighbor? How about you make enough cookie dough for two families worth (of some variety) and then take it over to the neighbor's to bake it, offering them half the cookies as "oven rent"? Maybe make it a "baking bee"?