A Cake Shaped Like Our House

For our tenth anniversary in the house, my partner baked a cake shaped exactly like it. Down to the crooked shutter, the blue front door and the oak tree in the yard, made of broccoli dipped in green frosting for reasons I still don't fully understand.

It took her three days. She used graham crackers for the roof shingles and little candy flowers for my garden. There was even a tiny fondant version of our dog, Pickle, asleep on the porch.

We invited the neighbors over to eat it. Everyone took photos. The kids fought over who got to eat Pickle.

Ten years ago we moved in with a mattress, two folding chairs and a borrowed coffee maker. Now we have a home full of friends, a dog and a broccoli tree made of cake. I can't imagine anywhere else I'd rather be.