My aunt makes the most wonderful melt in your mouth cookies in this world. People rave about them, well she taught me that when you want to make a bunch of different kinds of cookies to give as a gift make them a ahead a little (one batch a week for example, though I always seem to end up doing two batches a day) and stick them in ziploc bags in the freezer.
Granted nothing beats warm from the oven cookies, but after you do that you can always freeze half for later.