Pumpkin Coffee Cake with Brown Sugar Glaze- A seasonal coffee cake seasoned with pumpkin and spices, a nutty streusel, and a sweet brown sugar glaze.

There’s nothing better in the fall than sleeping in on the weekend and waking up to a cup of coffee and a delicious piece of pumpkin flavored coffee cake. We still haven’t had to turn our heat on and in the morning the house is just a little chilly. It’s so tempting to stay in the cozy bed, covers pulled all the way up, for an extra 30 minutes, maybe even an hour. Sometimes two. Who’s counting right"

Our kids are teenagers so there’s no chance they are getting up any time before mid-morning on Saturdays. And our dog is the best girl ever. She never tries to wake us up. She’s a rescue dog and as anyone who has adopted a dog from a shelter knows, they are the best dogs ever. So happy to be given a second chance. (Note: This post was originally published October 19, 2013.)
Only this morning we didn’t quite get the relaxing sleep in that we were looking forward to. One of our smoke detectors went off at 6am. They do that periodically, only usually it’s during the day and we can never figure out why. It’s not the chirping noise they do when the battery is low, it’s the full blown alarm. Nothing like waking up to that. Normally it’s just for a couple of seconds, but this time it was a full minute or two and towards the end of that time it sounded...