How shall I put it?

I baked a cake and some cupcakes for my mum’s birthday this year.  I baked her cake and cupcakes 2 days before i fell sick. Planned to decorate it on the same day i was to bring the cake to her birthday dinner. My dear hubby assisted me in decorating the cake and cupcakes too! He saw that i was going to faint while doing the deco.

Here is it : My first attempt on my own…. A Super Moist Chocolate Walnut Cake/cupcakes, topped with Chocolate Frosting.

I have never in my 30 plus years ever saw ‘twin’ egg yolks. Best thing was, every single one were the same!!!!

Did a heart shaped small cake, iced the cake with yummy Van Houten chocolate melts.Had to leave the frosted cake over night before actual decoration.

Decorated all these within an hour… not exactly how i wanted it to look but i would say it’s not bad…

Those tiny coloured hearts were done by Ed.

Mom was happy (i think..), brother loved the cupcakes, i pushed the icing aside before taking a bite though…LOL, it was super sweet!

All in all, with some fever, sore throat and cough - I DID IT!!!! Now let’s see what other design should i make…probably a ‘Sheep’…. (baaaa…)

I bet everyone of us have encountered with either constipation or diarrhea in our lives. But how many experienced both at the same time? I did and it’s not once but many  times. The difference with other people is, mine happens with the mind and mouth - the M&Ms.

How? Exactly how it is - literally! It’s either with constipation of the mind and diarrhea of the mouth or vice versa! Times when you have so many things you want to say but your mind seems to work slower, hence you get jibberish! Times when you think to fast and you need to get the thoughts out as fast, you get a broken record sound alike. You can’t pronounce properly and you try and try to get it right - that’s when you sound like a broken record….

I had that phase for about a week or so at one point. I thought i was loosing it altogether. Could it be the influence of my funny dear friend whose name i shall not mention… or could it be that i seriously have a problem?Here are some examples of what some of us may have experienced.

“My talking is bumpy.”

“The words get stuck.”

“My tongue stumbles.”

“My brain goes faster than my mouth.”

Checking out on Google…these are what we call Stuttering…

What Are Stuttering and Speech Problems?

As human beings, we have the special ability to share our thoughts by talking. We start by forming a thought in our brains. In the brain, this thought is changed into a code we’ve learned called language. Once the thought is coded into language, the brain sends a message to the muscles that control speech, telling them to move and make the right sounds come out. Then the mouth, face, neck, tongue, and throat muscles move to form words.

Sometimes this process doesn’t work perfectly, though. There might be an interruption or break in the flow of speech. This interruption is called a dysfluency (say: dis-floo-en-see). Now and then, everyone has trouble getting words out. It’s normal to stumble over a word or two every once in a while. Dysfluency becomes a speech problem, though, when it gets in the way of everyday talking and is noticeable to other people. A person may have a tough time getting thoughts out.

To all of us who experience this ‘interruption’, don’t be shy or embarrassed. We are not alone as there are at least 3 million people in the USA itself stutters. They are just as intelligent as the non-stutterers! Thomas Jefferson (3rd USA president), James Earl Jones (actor who played Darth Vader in Star Wars) and also King Mufasa in the Lion King stutters…

Then again, i am not a full time stutterer - only when i am overly excited! Heheh…

Stutter Stutter….