We did a second round of scabies treatment, as per instructions, which also involves a second round of laundering and airing all textiles.

Depending on which source I read, I get very different information for dealing with clothes and bedding and such. One place says to just wash them; another says that it needs to be done at 60°C. Many of our clothes wouldn’t survive such a hot wash, so then they need to be quarantined and aired. And again: one source says 3 to 5 days; another says 2 to 3 days but it has to be outside. The difference between 2 days and 5 is significant… I guess I’ll average them out to 3 days, and do it outside to be on the safe side. Hopefully the cold will do its part to kill any potential parasites still there.

This year’s Advent calendar only contains sweets. It was easy to give fun things to the kids when they were young (socks, erasers, hair elastics, pencils, stickers) and activities when they were slightly older (crafts, baking, games) but now that they are in their tweens and teens, none of that would be appreciated. So it’s back to basics. Mints and orange-flavoured chocolate for Ingrid; hazelnut nougat and gingerbread-flavoured pralines for Adrian.