103.6

That number is not a local radio station or even the percentage of people in our house who are thankful tomorrow is the last day of school (that percentage is actually a little higher). 
That number is the internal temperature of our little Julia at its highest today.  Poor thing woke up with a cough and a mere 101 degree temperature.  I had no choice but to keep her home from school.  Good thing I did because even after several doses of Tylenol, that number continued to rise...reaching its peak around noon (after she woke up from a nap...yes...she must have been sick because...SHE NAPPED.  A thing she has never in her life done voluntarily). 

She was so sad to miss the big Mountain Man Rendez-vous extravaganza at school today and shed some mountain man sized tears to prove it.  Hey, we're from Colorado and the Mountain Man Rendez-vous in fourth grade is one of the highlights of the year.  Turns out that fever lasted all day...and even as we tucked her into bed tonight, so looks like she'll miss the holiday festivities at school tomorrow too.  Oh bother.

Instead, she spent the day curled up on the couch, playing the Wii and watching Elf, and napping with her ever-loyal buddy...who was happy to have someone to spend the day with him.

And though voted "Least Likely to Decorate Any Christmas Cookies to be Consumed by Her Fellow Man" by her (largely germophobic) family, she was instead sanitized, masked, and dubbed "Frosting Color Czar" and allowed to choose and supervise frosting color and saturation for our evening cookie decorating...a job she took very seriously.

Once we were done decorating with our new Christmas frosting colors of turquoise, grape and peach, she could decorate her very own stash of custom cookies...to be consumed...by her...at her leisure. 

It all worked out very nicely (except for a few chili stains on her shirt from dinner).
Hopefully she'll be feeling better tomorrow!!!  Santa's coming soon for goodness sake!