Hospital Snacks

I know that I won't be able to eat anything while we're at the hospital waiting for Denver to arrive, but I know that everyone waiting with me will get hungry throughout the day. Instead of having to go all the way down to the cafeteria or spend a lot of money on snacks, I decided to pack some for everyone!

Luckily, I had lots of stuff left over from the "favors" from each shower. Trail mix from one (they were in little bags that said "thank you for helping me on the trail to motherhood") and cajun snack mix from the other shower (they were in little bags that said "critter crunch"). I opened all of those little individual packages and dumped them in large ziploc bags and then just made little tags that matched the rest of the "It's a Boy" stuff I had been printing.

I had a couple of packages of mini cookies left from the Nurse's gift jar, so I made a cookie bag as well with the same tag and packaged them all up in a white gift bag with a handle (that I already had), so D can make sure they get taken to the hospital.

The longer I wait for Denver to arrive, the more stuff that I come up with - just to keep myself busy. Can you tell? :)

Hospital Visitor Treats

Everyday that Denver doesn't come - I figure out something else to do to keep myself a little busy. If not, I'm way too anxious and kind of wander around the house looking for something to do. The last time I was at Hobby Lobby I picked up a plain paper gift bag for just 50 cents. I already had some treat bags and some "It's A Boy" ribbon. I just needed something to put in the treat bags! I really wanted something to pass out as people come to see us at the hospital. I decided to make shortbread cookies with royal icing. I made the dough up but had trouble with it when rolling it out (in hindsight I probably shouldn't have been trying to do it at 11 at night) so I got frustrated and just threw the dough away and decided to buy something. I called the bakery and depending on what I was looking for, they wanted anywhere from $1.50-$3 per cookie and you had to order at least $50. I wanted something cute but didn't want to spend a fortune on anything so when D and I were at Wal-Mart the next day we found some of those soft sugar cookies with blue icing. Each container was $2.50 and had 10 cookies so I picked up 4 containers for $10. Much better than the bakery alternative!

I just made a label to match the wreath and used spray adhesive on it to attach it to the bag.

And then I put each cookie in a treat bag and tied them with a piece of "It's a Boy" ribbon. Something cute and cheap to hand out to our visitors!