DIY - Training Pants

Training pants are so expensive. You only get 2 or 3 per package for $7.00 a pop, pull-ups are too much like diapers and are also expensive. So, I did some research and figured out I could make some myself.

I cannot keep a good thing to myself, so I am posting step-by-step instructions on making these Training Pants.

You will need:
Tri-fold Parent's Choice Cloth Diapers 6pk - found at Wal-Mart
Faded Glory Briefs, size 2T-3T 10pk - found at Wal-Mart
Sewing Machine
Sharp Sissors
Pins
Thread - I used white only

  

1. Take your tri-fold cloth diaper and fold the 

two outsides into the middle, making them overlap.

2. Fold your diaper in half

3. Turn your underwear inside-out

4. Line one end up just below the elastic and pin. 

I do this on the backside. 

 

5. Pull the daiper around to the front of the underwear.

Pin it just below the waist band. There will be extra material,

we will cut it off later.  

6. Pin the sides to help keep the diaper in place

when sewing. 

7. Turn pants right-side-out, make sure

you have an even amount of diaper

sticking out of the leg holes

 and pin the crotch. 

It should look like this.

8. Cut the material off along the leg holes.

After you sew, you may have to trim 

them up a little bit more.

 It will look like this.

 

9. Cut the extra that is sticking out

over the elastic. I use the elastic 

so it will be straight.

  Once we finish sewing it may

need to be trimmed a bit more.

10. Start sewing. I sewed as close 

the edge of the material as I could. 

The first one I made I sewed it in sections. Then realized

I could sew all the way around if I took my time and 

pulled the underwear and diaper tight. 

 11. I trimmed the edge that we cut 

a little, just below the elastic band.

Here is the finished product!

Please leave any questions in the comments section and I will get them answered. Good luck!

We Are Fireproofing

A few months ago I had put the movie Fireproof into our Insta Queue on Netflix. Thinking one night when JD and I had some free time, we would sit down and watch it.

At the time JD had no idea what the movie was even about. All I told him he was that the movie was written by the same people who did Facing the Giants, but I was unsure of the plot. I thought if he knew, he might not think he needed to watch it and then wouldn't have.

Well, on March 2nd, my parents took the girls to a fundraiser for my niece's school. JD and I made kabobs and put the movie in. There was a scene in the movie where the dad is talking to the main character and he says, "hate is the same as murder and lust is the same as adultery".

JD got a little upset with this part, was ready to quit watching it and asked me if that is what it really says. I have been telling him for a while about the importance of going to church and studying his bible is. So I took this opportunity to get my bible out so we could look together.

                              1John 3:15 "Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, 

                              and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding 

                              in him."

The first thing he says to me is that the bible is talking about brothers. I chuckled quietly to myself, not wanting to upset him, then I explained that the bible refers to everyone as "man" and "brother''. However, the bible means everyone. 

The rest of the movie went on and by the end he seemed to have actually liked the movie. 

I felt a twinge of pain when they are in the garage and Catherine says, "Something has changed in you Caleb, and I want what happened to you to happen to me". I had been praying for JD to say that to me since I had started back at church with the girls.

The next day, when I got home from the gym, JD started telling me about how he had looked up The Love Dare book. He had all the prices memorized and went on to tell me that there is a study guide that we can do it together or separate. I was speechless!

When I was able to talk, I told him that I was in if he was serious. Needless to say, we out the next day and bought the book and study guide. He picked out a journal and a new pen to go with it.

He had dug out some of his devotionals that he had either bought himself or that my older brother gave him. He was looking them over and then asked if he should do them all at once or just a few. I told him to pick one devotional, along with The Love Dare.

He picked the one he was going to do and got out his bible. After he read a little bit, he then told me he would have to start going to church so he can understand what he was reading a little better. Again, speechless!

We are on day 8 of The Love Dare, spent the whole week together since I was on vacation from work, and so far so good.

Now our only dilemma  is going to be getting Crispin to let us leave him in the nursery so we can all go to church.