there is a better way...

I was given a fleece hoody and pant set a couple years ago. In the midst of being pregnant and being pregnant again, this outfit was set aside for perhaps a day I could wear it. Only in the past two weeks, have I been able to put them on and still breathe. You girls understand what I mean, right? They fit my waist but the height was way too long...like 5 inches too long. Since I have dreamed of the day, I could wear them, I wasn't gonna even think of letting them get out of my sight...or even out of my closet.

Bright and early this Monday morning, I put on this outfit. Grrr! The pant legs are still too long. Frustrated that after having them in my closet for the past 3 years didn't shrink their length, and that both Moms are sleeping at 6:30 am and my seamstress needs more than a 2 minute warning, I decide to fix them myself.

(*insert laughter here*)

I was given Stitch Witchery for Christmas one year...probably the year of these pants.

It's a great little invention that holds a hem in place without all the work of actually sewing... I love it already.

My kids are stirring. I don't have much time. I run to my laundry room and turn on my iron to start this repair process. I shape the hem to how I would like it and add this special hem fabric to my pants and start ironing. I place the iron down on the fabric and it won't budge.

Something wrong here. I lift up the iron only to have my pants slowly melt away from the Teflon plate of the iron.

I melted my pants.


Oops! It was too hot. It melted a hole through my pants. Just like on cartoons. I look at the iron. Oh, the damage, this melting oozing fabric is stuck to the metal. I have ruined the pants and the iron is less than 5 seconds!

I could have waited until the weekend or I could have called my seamstress at 9am but I was impatient and thought I could do it faster my way. Only to have tears and damaged goods start my new week!

After pondering this incident, I have tried to see it from a spiritual perspective. I have God guiding me and helping me through my day, and I can rely on Him always. How many times though have I decided I have an issue I can do alone? It happens. I know and want to trust God in everything. That is my desire and I know that is His desire from me. But I am not perfect. I am human. I make mistakes. I can ask forgiveness and God is there holding my hand ready to help. Always!

Wonderful peace in following God.

And those pants...I realized that I didn't make the hem high enough so I was able to cut above the hole and once the iron cooled, the hard plastic-y material just wiped clean. Both of which were God's answer to my prayers that morning.

Another lesson learned!