that's a wrap

One of the nice things that happened after we brought our third baby home was that many of our thoughtful friends made us dinner.  I honestly didn't have to cook for the first few weeks and even though I love to cook it was so nice not to have to with a newborn in the house.  A friend of mine just had her fourth baby!  Another friend and I decided to work together to make a special dinner for them. My friend made the main course, and I did the salad and dessert.  We made it a "back to school" theme since we delivered it the night before the first day of school.  I made an applesauce cake for dessert. We tucked some new ABC books in the basket for the baby and I filled a lunchbox with some gummy hamburgers for the older siblings.  If you know someone having a baby think about making them a meal or even just part of a meal.  I know they will appreciate it as much as I did!

back to school dinner

As I mentioned in the post, I had a back to school dinner the night before my daughter's first day of school. I used white butcher paper as the table cloth and my kids had fun decorating it while they were waiting for dinner. I used apples as the centerpiece and mini chalkboard for the place cards. I served ABC soup (the recipe can be found here) and grilled cheese that I cut into letter shapes using cookie cutters. For dessert my daughter helped me make "kissing hand" cookies. I love the book "The Kissing Hand" by Audrey Penn and thought it would be fun to make hand shaped sugar cookies with a chocolate kiss in the middle. We gave our daughter a new backpack with a few treats inside and hung it from the back of her dinner chair. Teacher gift ides to come!