I Used a Pendulum to Predict My Future

The answer was wrong, but then again, it was right

A long time ago, I was a young mother with a daughter. I was with my coworkers when someone pulled out a pendulum, and we started having fun asking questions and watching the results.

For whatever reason, I asked how many children I’d have. The pendulum answered I’d have three children total: a girl, a girl, and a boy — in that order.

As I got older, I had another child, a boy. I didn’t have any more children after that.

As my kids grew and time went on, that pendulum reading stuck in my memory. I couldn’t believe how wrong it had been with such a profound question.

My kids grew, and I got divorced, remarried, divorced, and then started dating a wonderful man, Michael, in my late forties.

Mike has an extensive family with seven brothers and sisters. As we got closer, I was embraced by his siblings and their spouses, nieces, nephews, and most importantly, Mike’s only child, his daughter, Kelsey.

I adore Kelsey. I consider her also to be my daughter and love her as I do my own children. It may be no surprise that Kelsey is younger than my daughter and older than my son.

One girl, one girl, one boy.

The universe was right! I’d have three children in my life, but the answer was not the way I expected.

When Mike and I got married, my son walked me down the aisle, and our daughters stood beside us as we said our vows. My girls get along well together. And Mike has embraced my kids as I have with his daughter.

And we are one happy, extended family.