glitterbag wrote:her idea of cutting back the fat was to roast the chicken in Crisco in the oven instead of frying it in Crisco
Ha!
Osso, yeah, I know what you mean about the soap. Read a whole thing about it somewhere recently -- water, regular old ivory-type soap, no antibacterial! counterproductive!
The kid has indeed had a lot of out-of-the family contact, especially her twice-weekly classes and twice-weekly playdates with her best friend, Jack. When they started playing together regularly, they each got sick. And she often got sick at the beginning of new classes, though that has improved.
I think my take on it at this point is that everyone has their own constellation of germs (think Pigpen) and it just is a matter of how many opportunities the germs have to jump ship. Four days of snuggling, kissing, hugging, laughing, and the occasional cough and sneeze and yeah, guess it's to be expected.
I admit that I would love to take Phoenix's suggestion, but it would go over like (tryptophan-addled brain can't come up with anything better than) a lead balloon and wouldn't even be any kind of guarantee, itself. So will just do a lot of (plain ol' Ivory soap) handwashing next time, step up the fluids and make sure the sozlet gets enough sleep, and keep fingers crossed.
The sleep thing could be part of the risk factor (not food so much, though, we usually just cook as usual), since we always seem to need to wake up the sozlet for various planned activities. (Normally I usually let her sleep until she wakes up, herself.) Yeah, that can't help.
Meanwhile, poor little sickie perked up enough to have some of the Thanksgiving feast, though said feast was abbreviated since little sickie was doing her best limpet impersonation and would NOT be pried free of Mama, who was also Chef. So I did what I could one-handed, (luckily had already made stuffing and put turkey in the oven), which included cranberry sauce (easy) and carrots in almond sauce (harder) but had to cut a couple of dishes out. Will make 'em tomorrow.
Thanks for you input, everyone.