This weekend holds very special memories for you and I, Kayla. This is the opening weekend of deer season, Ma Bowman's birthday today, and also the day when we turn our clocks back an hour. You never did care much for the hunting thing but I remember the first year we lived in Tallulah, Louisiana. We called Ma Bowman the morning of the first frost. Every year on the eve of the first frost, she would say, 'there's gonna be frost on the pumpkin in the morning.' When we called her that morning, we all told her there was frost on the pumpkin in Tallulah. She couldn't hear very well but she thought that was the cutest thing, that we would remember that. Many years have passed since then and every year I think about that when it starts getting colder out. Here in Commerce, Texas we have not seen the first frost yet. Today is also your Ma Bowman's birthday. You were named after her, Addie Mae Bowman. Never a more virtuous woman have I met in my life. Naming you after her was perfect...I see it now...her spirit of kindness, compassion, long-suffering, contentment, patience, commitment, and love showed in your life after Ma was gone to Heaven. Where Ma left off, you picked up and helped Kristin and the babies until it was time for you and Kristin to go on to Heaven. It blesses my heart to know you are all there together. You know, when Kaylee was born and it came time for Kristin and Kaylee to go home, that was the day that Ma passed away, 11-16-08. We called Kaylee 'Lil Ma' because we were sure that Ma's work was done when Kaylee was born and that's why she died that day. That's where your work began...with Kristin, Hagen and Kaylee. I know when Kristin died, your work was done too. I will never know any finer people in my life than Addie Mae Bowman and Kayla Mae King. I pray Hagen and Kaylee somehow inherit your wonderful spirits. Now onto a funny memory...the time change...I remember you and I would sit and argue about whether or not we gained an hour of sleep in the fall and lost one in the spring or not. Listening to the logic behind your arguement, I agreed you were right...in the fall I got the same amount of sleep before and after the time change and in the spring, same thing only I lost the hour. I smile as I think of your arguements about that. Even to this day, when someone mentions getting that extra hour of sleep, I tell them about you and our debates on the subject. You know Kayla, you always had to win any debate and I let you win that one but tonight I get an extra hour of sleep :)