The Food That Made Me

Kids, #1 is around four months old right now. 11 pounds and growing well. Today is mommy’s first Mother’s Day. So, I just want to list a bunch of things that she has done for you.

1. Just last morning, she took care of a severe blowout situation due to daddy’s incompetence of changing your diaper in the middle of the night. It was not tight enough.
2. There are endless amounts of times that mommy has woken up to breastfeed you.
3. There are endless amounts of times that mommy has breastfed you during the day.
4. Milk pumping happened every four hours.
5. Bottle washing happened twice a day.
6. Clothes washing happened at least twice a week.
7. Carrying you for hours each day.
8. Changing your diaper probably every 2ish hours.
9. Getting spit up on multiple times a day.
10. Consoling you when you were crying/wailing.
11. Extra excitement with tummy time and exercises.
12. Long walks with Emi.
13. Etc.

You may be thinking where’s daddy? But, today isn’t about me.

I cannot express enough gratitude to your mother. I hope she accepts my humble offering of a lemon blueberry cake.

Here is the recipe.

1. I followed the recipe to a T. Shocking, right? Uncle Butters supervised.
2. I learned how to fold a cone shape so that I can line the pan with parchment.
3. I think that I could have tempered the sour cream mix better by adding the hot buttter slower and mixing it.
4. I used two 8-inch pans. So, the cake was thicker. It took 10-15 minutes extra to get it to bake all the way.
5. Mommy said to rotate the pan midway through so that it bakes more evenly.
6. Honestly, the frosting turned out to be the hard part. I don’t know what consistency the cream cheese should have. But, I think that it was too soft. So, my frosting turned out really soft. So, I refrigerated it and it became stiff again.

Anyways, Happy Mother’s Day!