I love my sisters
I have been having the best time since graduating. I’ve seen everyone way more than usual. I had several sisters come to my graduation party, we affiliated together, I text people all the time…We went to karaoke last week and we went bowling for Katie’s birthday. I went shopping with Jacki and tonight eight of us went for Chinese food and even more met us at Rita’s. I also just sat around with like six sisters talking for about three hours before all of that. It has really been wonderful! 
Also, I bought new shoes. I can’t get the picture to work. Gr. I’ll have to take one with my own camera.
The love of a sister…or forty. :)
This past week was amazingly hectic and SAI-filled. It was the last week of our members-in-training period before the girls became sisters! We had some cool activities every night of the week. I was only able to make it on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. 
I was sick on Monday night and had to work on Thursday. On Friday we had a sleepover at Lauren’s, as usual. Lauren and I decided to grocery shop at about two in the morning, and when we came back with ice cream and other junk food, I decided I wanted bacon and eggs, so I cooked them at 2:30 am or so! I made letters and watched Lifetime with Kelly and otherwise just talked and had a great time with my sisters. We stayed up until about four am, and then had to get up at nine for Initiation stuff. Haha. Heather is my hero because she brought me coffee!!!
Initiation was possibly the most amazing and beautiful thing I’ve ever experienced in my life; and I’ve experienced it before. I was part of it, and I guess knowing that it was my last one as a collegiate member really hit me. I actually started crying, thinking about how much I truly love SAI. I pictured all of my sisters around me, protecting me, and keeping all good things like SAI in my life, trapped right around me. It made me unbelievably happy. I’m excited to affiliate with the alums with five + other girls who I’ve spent all of my time in SAI with as a college sister, but still sad to leave the collegiate time behind me.
After initiation we had a million and one pictures and a picnic! Our favorite Rowan girls came to visit us and even came to the picnic! I got to spend lots of time talking with them and eating good food! Also, one of our alums came too, and I had a great time seeing her again. The eight new sisters were adorable, and they all want to order letters from me!!!
I think the best part about the whole day (besides all the SAI goodness) is that for a period of about four hours, I was blissfully happy. I forgot about all the stress in my life concerning school and money, and I was just happy and in love with life 100%. It was nice to pull away from all the things that upset me and forget they exist for that time. I felt the best that I have in a long time, and I am so thankful for my sisters being able to do that.
Where to start??
I have been trying to write a post for a long time, and it keeps coming out too boring and long winded…then I remember I don’t have any pictures on the computer and I stop, delete it, and don’t post.
This is me posting! (FYI, it’s still long-winded, but I finished this time!)
I got a bunny from my best friend and sister, Kristi.
Isn’t he cuuuuute? His name is Sammy and I’ve loved him since I met him. Kristi and Eric’s new apt charges per pet, so they are cleaning house (of the bunnies) I got Sammy just in time for Easter! (the photo is on Easter)
I didn’t get real spring break. I got Thurs-Mon off. I spent my time well…sewing, sewing, and oh yeah…sewing. This is one of my favorite SAI totes that I made….
All in all I made six totes and five shirts. I love my girls who keep me sewing! It was so cool at our Thursday night activity to see half the chapter wearing letters that I made!
My last day of freedom (which was almost its own post) was spent doing what I do best. Eating a ridiculous amount of food, watching an eight episode mini-marathon of Gilmore Girls, and scrapping with my best friend and fabulous cousin, Jessica.
I thought I was really uninspired, and then finally I created these two pages.
Sorry I can’t photograph straight. I should do it *before* I put them in the book…haha. These two are from our MITs’ musicale that they did. I included their program and some photos. The page on the right was inspired by Leslie’s fabulous layoring and ribbon techniques. I really like the way it turned out!
I’m back at student teaching. Getting observed teaching a class I haven’t even met tomorrow. We had early outs both Wednesdays I’ve been there, so I don’t even know these kids, but my supervisor (who I’m sure used his BEST judgement and not at all his hectic schedule as a basis for this) is coming tomorrow. Have I mentioned that I am DONE on May 9th and graduate the 10th? May is going to be so cool
So…that’s all folks….for now.
The Variety Show
In school the other day my cooperating teacher explained to the kids that Ed Sullivan ran a variety show. This is a variety post, because it contains a little bit of everything.
First, my placement is the very best I could have hoped for. My cooperating teacher is a great teacher and person, and very easy to talk to and work with everyday. The staff in general is very nice and the kids are polite. Who knew that middle school students would be polite? I have had a few little teaching experiences thus far, but I am excited about tomorrow. I’m working with the 9th grade clarinets, and then teaching-wise I really take off with classes!
Glenn and I have been fighting like nutcases because we are so stressed about finding a place to live. We had the perfect house (aka, nice area, decent house, but total fixer-upper) but it slipped through our fingers so to speak. I think we finally truced and realized that it is more the stress and disappointment speaking, because tonight was the first time either one of us was truly relaxed in awhile. We had dinner at our favorite place, Tosco’s, and had some pretty silly conversations.
Our realtor thinks we’re insane because we were talking about our future children, Skeletor and Evilynn, and calling them such. Not knowing it was an inside joke she made quite a face and was like “are you really naming them that?”
I did some scrapbooking before the beast that is student teaching began, but I didn’t ever post the photos. Here is one for my SAI sister Caroline’s recital
And our Members-in-Training put on a skit This is possibly my favorite-est page ever.
Leslie, I’ve been using all of the ribbon you sent me, and I completely went to town with the tag book! Thank you sooo much!
Speaking of SAI, we had our first meeting last night and it was WONDERFUL to see all of my sisters. I yelled at our president to take things like “commencement” off of the calendar. This semester is going to be amazing.
I hope these are enough ramblings to tide everyone over! (by everyone I mean the one person who reads this…haha)
Visit to Asheville!
Our SAI chapter (Epsilon Epsilon) and a really cool girl from a nearby chapter (Marissa!) left at five am to drive to Asheville, North Carolina where headquarters is located! It took eleven hours (including two stops along the way) and when we reached Asheville it was FREEZING! Why did it get colder as we made our way south?!
We had a lot of fun on Wednesday night, telling everyone our names were Minnie Davis and Mary Storrs, etc, and that our sister Caroline was getting married the next day (a Thursday?!). I actually sang a karaoke song by myself! (I’d do my senior recital if it could be in Asheville where no one will remember it…)
The next day we visited headquarters and met Ruth Sieber Johnson. She is the sweetest woman in the world. We got a tour of the building and took a ton of photos, then did some volunteer work. Ruth gave us cookies and tea in the parlor, and then we played and sang songs from the song book! It was really a wonderful day! After we finished at HQ we went to a mall of sorts in town that hosted galleries and unique shops (no Borders or Starbucks here!) I bought a beautiful wall hanging.
We stopped in on Friday before we left to shop SAI and take group pictures. Greg, who does layouts for Tempo! took quite a few nice shots of us with Ruth and her daughter Beth.
Glenn and I went to see Spamalot yesterday. Very funny musical! We had a nice dinner after and walked around Times Square a bit.
Today I returned to babysitting and when I got home, the scrapbooking bug hit me. Here’s what I did:
