Mini Cornucopias

Here's what you'll need...
• Fruit shaped candy (like Runts)
• Sugar cones
• Plastic baggie
• Small piece of ribbon or yarn
• Knife
• Scissors 

Here's how you make them...1. With a knife cut the ends off of your sugar cones. 

2. Fill the corner of the baggie with fruit candy. 

3. Put your sugar cone into the corner of the baggie, scooping up some candy as you go. If your cornucopia doesn't look like how you want it, arrange the candy from outside the bag.4. Tie a ribbon around the baggie at thebottom of the cone. If you want to make these into name cards for a dinner table just cut out a small piece of fall colored paper, write the name, and thread onto the ribbon before you tie it.
If you like these cornucopias, but don't want to eat them or wrap them in a baggie, you can always just glue the fruit into the cone

Mom Fears

We prepare for natural disasters and economical collapses, but what prepares us for our worst mom fears? How can we prepare ourselves mentally and emotionally for kidnappings? We can spray the house for spiders and cockroaches, but we can't spray for child molesters or cancer. Mom fears are the worst fears.



We hear about them on the news, children who are abducted or molested. We hear about sick children who need surgery, or who won't make it to their next birthday. Every single one of these things can be found on most moms' list of worst fears. Personally, I fear that I will fail my children as a mother. That I will not teach them properly, that I will not love them enough or pay enough attention. I fear that I won't emotionally support them when they really need me to be there for them. How am I supposed to prepare for that? Where is my mommy manual when I need it?!
I love my children, I would do anything for them and I want to protect them from all evil and wrong. Sometimes, though, it's not something we can control. Hearts can be broken, and sure, mom can be there to offer a shoulder to cry on, but what if we're "too busy"? There's another fear - that I'll be too busy with something to notice my child.
Motherhood is just one big paranoia, isn't it? Do we really have to carry a child, birth said child, and then watch them grow up to be adults? No one told me that once I became a mother, so many things would make me fearful.
What are your worst fears as a mom?