Commentary by Danielle Pelkey

The North Jefferson News



I know that Easter has come and gone, but I must tell you about the best Easter present that I have ever received.

On Easter morning, while going about my normal Easter activities of getting the basket together and getting ready for church, I found out some wonderfully exciting news — my husband and I will be having another child.

This pregnancy is a complete surprise to Todd and I, but we welcome this new addition with open arms. My emotions were very mixed as I looked at my pregnancy test and saw the positive sign. I was shocked that there was a baby in my womb, but I was also excited about all that the future would hold.

Just the night before I had a long talk with my grandparents about how we were going to wait for at least another year before we had anymore kids, so that Raygan would have plenty of time as the baby.

Needless to say, God was probably laughing at this conversation the whole time because He already knew that I was pregnant.

I’m amazed that the Lord has seen fit to bless me with yet another child to call my own. He shows me more of His love each time I turn around.

It still seemed like a dream to me until I went to the North Jefferson Women’s Center on Thursday for an ultrasound. I saw my baby’s heartbeat for the first time and was in awe. Just to think that over the next eight months, I will be assisting God in a miracle. It makes everything else in your life seem so small.

We are already going through the regular jitters of figuring out how to make the house accommodate another individual. We’re also praying that this child will be a mighty child of God and that he or she will be saved at an early age. These are the things that are the most important issues to our family.

I must admit that I feel as though I need to apologize to Raygan for cutting her life of being the only child so short. But as I think about it, my sister and I are only 18 months apart in age, and I never felt like I was gypped by not having enough time as the only child.

I always enjoyed having a sister. She was my easiest person to pick on and beat up until my brother came along seven years later. He then became the easiest target.

But now, I really get along with both my sister and my brother. I think if God had seen fit to give me another two or three siblings, I would love them as much as I love the two I already have.

Everything may not be happening exactly like the Pelkeys had planned in our five year plan, but things are even better then we could have ever imagined.

Just think, in the first five years of our marriage we will have had two children, made an addition onto our house and who knows, maybe by then we’ll even have a dog in the back yard.

Don’t get your hopes up though.