Miss Texas 2020

There are times in my life, when I've run across someone that I know in my heart is destined for great things. Sometimes I'm not sure how I know that, but I just do.

This week while at the beach, I had one such occasion. I met Miss Texas 2020. Mind you, right now she's only 6, but in 12 more years, she'll be doing the beauty pagent wave, mark my words.

I know this because behind the guise of being 6, she was really practicing how she would answer the interview questions posed to her by the panel of judges.

Taylor was visiting the beach for the day with her family last week, and once she spotted Kylee, she merrily jaunted the small distance between their "camp" and ours, proclaiming, "My mama says I only have 30 minutes to play with you..." and, I responded that that would be fine. Here's where the amazement starts, and you really can't get the full gist in print, therefore, please click on the links to the audio.

After alerting me to her alotted time limit, she said,

Wow. Ok. In the next breath, she'd told us exactly where she lived, and invited us all to her birthday party. In the course of the thirty minute period, she went back and forth several times, the final time bringing back her "purse" for lack of a better word. After this trip she said:,


Out of the mouths of 6 year olds. However, Taylor lived up to her orations. She proceded to pull out her makeup and lovingly apply it to Kylee's face. I know..I know...make up, especially lip gloss can carry germs, but...I couldn't break the spell of one special six year old ministering to my oft mute Kylee.

I'm sure I could tell you the rest of Taylor's entire life story here, but suffice it to say, she impressed me. Wise beyond her years, Taylor approached something and someone she was unfamiliar with, and embraced it for all it was worth.

Each time I go to the beach, I'll be on the lookout for Miss Texas 2020. It was the best 30 minutes I've spent in conversation in a great while.