We made a dinner, figuring that would be much appreciated in a time of healing. Since the meal would only be serving 3 people we split it up into two smaller pans. I hate always having to worry about giving dishes back to the owners, so thought buying disposable tin foil pans would be a good idea;) The meal was simple and delicious.
Layered Spaghetti Bake
1 box spaghetti-cooked and drained
1 roll pork sausage
1 jar spaghetti sauce
mozz cheese
mushrooms, onions, green peppers-chopped
Parmesan cheese
brown the sausage and veggies with some Italian seasoning. In a greased pan layer 1/2 noodles, 1/2 sausage, 1/2 sauce, and some mozz and parm cheese. Repeat layers. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
We then make a batch of the families new favorite cookie. I simply put them in a zip lock baggie and wrote on the bag "you are one tough cookie" If I had time I would have come up with better packaging.
I must give credit to my husband for the final part of the gift. We made a date jar. We took a mason jar and spruced it up a bit by including a "date jar" label on some scrapbook paper that we inserted into the jar. On the lid we attached some coordinating paper. Working together we wrote out several dates on strips of scrapbook paper. Some were silly and fun, some were for staying home activities, some were trips, some were going out, some were reminiscing, some were sweet. We then used yet another piece of scrapbook paper (I am in love with scrapbook paper, can you tell?;) and wrote a note:
For a birthday gift we wanted to help you focus on each other and build memories.
Please enjoy this jar of dates to enjoy together.
For each date take a picture and write a memory.
Return the slip, picture, and memory.
We will make make a memory book for you.
The memory book was all my hubby's idea and I am in love with it! What an awesome gift of memories! I sincerely hope our receivers will do this because I look forward to preserving their memories for them.
This was such a fun gift to do together. We very much enjoyed preparing it!!
*** I loved this so much I did another one for a bridal shower. I put together the jar and note and purchased some items to use for the dates (mugs and sharpies for the "make each other mugs date", a gift card for a date, etc.) So much time and energy is spent planning the wedding that I hope it will be nice for them to take time to focus on each other too! And again, I so look forward to making the memory book for them!!
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