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When Things Don’t Go Your Way, Kick Into Mommy Mode

This was one of those weeks. Tears, anger, OK-you-need-to-get-it-together…then problem solving! Our cute, spunky, smart, assertive, loving, four-year-old boy was diagnosed with a fortunately curable, but very serious, form of Lyme Disease. A tick bite led to an infection that invaded his little body maybe when he played soccer or when we went on a family hike. Well never know because there was no tick found, no rash, no rhyme or reason why he has had to suffer like this. Hes doing much better after quite a scary week in the hospital and will go home to three weeks of IV antibiotics and he will be absolutely fine.

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Snow Pants and MOFOs

I was literally thinking what should I write this first Modern Mom blog post about when the phone rang: Dr. Jen, your son had a pee-pee accident on the playground, and there wasnt a change of clothes in his box, so we have him in last years snow pants (its 68 degrees outside in New York today). Before I go on, I do have to say that there WAS a change of clothes …