While my wife, Carrie, and I were dating she would often give me a gift when she would come to my house.  A candy bar here, a card there, etc.  I would carve out time to sit with her on the hammock, take a walk around the UL campus, etc.  We were both so confused about why the other person didn’t understand how much love we were giving them until we read The Five Love Languages in our pre-marital counseling.

My wife has a love language of Gift Giving… I can spend as much Quality Time (my love language) with her as I want but she will not feel/perceive my love for her because I’m not speaking her language.  As a result, I have to pay extra attention to holidays because those gifts that mean nothing to me mean THE WORLD to her. 

It can be work loving someone who speaks the language of Gift Giving when you don’t because multiple small gifts mean more than one huge gift.  I can think of one huge gift every couple of months without much effort but five little gifts for a holiday is mentally exhausting for me!  My mind just doesn’t work that way so making myself speak that language is about as difficult as learning Chinese… but it’s worth it for the people we love, right?

If you’re in my boat, Great Harvest is here for you.  The gifts are so good that, even after working here for six Valentine's Days, my bakery is still here for me.  My wife loves our Chocolate Bliss cookies.  She drools over Chocolate Brownie Bread and revels in a warm slice of White Chocolate Berry Swirl.  We have heart shaped Sugar Cookies, too.  So, if you want to add small, inexpensive gifts to your Valentine’s Day package, I’d recommend stopping by between now and Saturday, the 12th... we’ll have something to help you out!