It's been five months since I last blogged, on what was going to be my daily mindfulness and gratitude blog. Ha!! The only thing that I seem capable of completing at the moment is a family size cheesecake. Just kidding. Although the cheesecake was delicious, I have managed to stay sober for a long time, to parent my kids for 10 years, and to keep living even when things seemed truly crap. At the moment, I am recovering from having a tooth pulled. I hate dental stuff. I am slightly phobic. I had a filling about two weeks ago on a tooth that was already heavily decayed and filled. The dentist seemed sure that he could save the tooth, I thought it would need to be pulled. He numbed me up and started on his journey to save that tooth. As he started pulling out the decay, drilling and scraping, he started seeing that the tooth was almost more decay than tooth. He started saying "oh dear, this is a lot of decay". He started saying that they would do their best to fix