V-day Cookies

This is what we did tonight (and what I did all day - from making the dough, to buying candy for decorating, to rolling out and cutting out and baking dough, to running back to the store when we ran out of butter: an essential ingredient in buttercream frosting...). I wanted to do this because I remember decorating cookies for Valentine's Day when I was a little girl, and I loved it! Paige displayed the same laser-like focus as she did for decorating her gingerbread house. She decorated 13 cookies and wanted to keep going but I had to force her to stop because it was a half hour past her bedtime.

Originally I planned to give them to the women I visit teach (the cookies wrapped up on the real plates are for them). The plates look like this underneath all those cookies:

I cut the vinyl out on my Cricut with the "home accents" cartridge. The plate is $1.97 from Tai Pan.

But obviously we have too many cookies for just the 3 ladies I visit (none of whom have children to gobble them up - the cookies that is.). So I asked Ben if I could wrap some up for the families he home teaches. His reply was something like this, "No. What's the point? No one's going to eat any. They're just going to dump them in the trash."

???

Is this true? Did I just waste my entire day? Doesn't anybody out there like sugar cookies? I mean, you can pick off the red hots and the conversation hearts . . .