Roll With It
Chad and I recently spent a moving and intense weekend on a spiritual retreat. It was a time of discovery and growth, and one of the lessons we learned I want to share: Don't put me and Chad in charge of your breakfast pastry needs. Chad and I have a lot of talents and skills, but picking up caramel rolls from Tobie's in Hinckley isn't one of them. While this is a relatively simple mission, it amplified many of our weaknesses: our ineffective mode of couple communication, Chad's lack of understanding of the importance others place on food, my irrational irritation at receiving food recommendations for northern Minnesota, my penchant for mixing up the names of things, and my fear of excessive morning calories. These rolls make me nervous So a simple and very reasonable request to pick up Tobie's caramel rolls for the two middle school girls on our retreat started with Chad picking up caramel rolls from Lund's the night before we left for the retreat. Chad...