Elements 10 Blending Brush

I am new to PhotoShop Elements and have been doing my best to learn everything. I have been using the blending brush to do skin softening and somehow my blending brush disappeared. Has this happened to anyone and can you help me find it? I still have the Smart Brush Tool and the Detail Smart Brush tool but not the Blending brush. HELP!!!!

I'm not sure which tool you are using as a "blending brush" since there is not a tool with that specific name in
photoshop elements, but perhaps it was the smudge tool?
Here is a chart of the location of all the tools in the toolbox and some of the tools are grouped with other
tools, so one can hold the mouse on the different icons in the toolbox to see the other tools in that group.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshopelements/using/WS287f927bd30d4b1f626a494c12e28b3ab58- 7ff7.html
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