Oct 20, 2015 If you come visit (please don’t), you’ll see me bumping around my apartment like a busted Roomba vacuum cleaner, with sweatpants on backwards. And I swear I had a dream the other day while I was awake. I made this easy pumpkin cake before Adarsh’s parents arrived a few days ago. It’s actually a quick-bread (so no laborious creaming and beating that most cakes require). I baked it in a round pan to make it look more celebratory, but you could definitely make it a loaf pan instead. It’s full of warm spices, soft dates, and crowned with thick, tangy swirls of cream cheese frosting. Fall comfort food. And now, as I type this, there’s a sweet, chubby-cheeked babe snoring softly in my arms, with his downy-soft head nestled in the crook of my elbow, and I’ve already (almost) forgotten about our night last night. Motherhood humbles and teaches me every day.
