Numbers can be quite revealing; here are the numbers from the past two days:

• 2 fillings in the left side of my mouth
• 42 dental instruments in my mouth at once
• 10 times I gagged in the dental chair
• 4 1/2 hours of numbness and a fat tongue
• 1 34 year-old woman reduced to a whimpering six year-old
• 9 Diet Pepsi’s
• 0 minutes exercising
• 3 episodes of Dora
• 4 loads of laundry
• 5 blogs I enjoy following
• 25 bags of groceries
• 2 hot baths
• 73 loud, harsh construction noises from next door
• 1 fat cat nap (nothing like it to change your perspective)
• 5 episodes of chocolate
• 59 puzzle pieces strewn across the kitchen floor by the puzzle-obsessed 2 year-old
• 2 meals eaten in the car
• 2 meals cooked (although what constitutes a meal is certainly open for debate)
• 5 different pairs of shoes left around the house by one precious 5 year-old
• 11 times I thought my car smelled gross
• 3 Cawthons doing the Hokey Pokey at dance class
• 21 hugs and kisses……………priceless!