I received my LiL's LAST NIGHT! I have TWINS!!!!! :D

Due to an overwhelmingly successful Recruitment this year, a few from our chapter had to take on twins....YAY for me! I get to have TWICE the fun!

I am also a GrandBig for two....that's right, my TWO previous LiL's also received LiL's....I love my FAMILY TREE! We are all as different as can be, but thats why i LOVE it so much....we complete each other!

(So far i have LiL's from Chicago, Los Angeles, Kissimmi, & Miami... where will they come from next?!!)

EDITED TO ADD:

Congrats AOIIsilver, i don't think anyone can beat that! That must be an amazing experience... i'm so jealous (in a good way!) ;)

big/lil update
 

well i didn't get a little this semester, but i got an awesome big!

(since i'm a transfer, they found a big for me here :D ) she is sooooooo amazing and awesome and I am very excited!!!

We had Big/Lil on Thursday night and my family has expanded once again!!!

I have:
4 littles
3 grandlittles
2 great grandlittles

We have the biggest family in the chapter (and there are also more along with our extended family)!!!!

Wow I'm old and I still have a year to go.....I'll be a great great grandbig before I graduate!

All this talk of big/lil is getting me excited, and I dont get a big til november 14th. I already live with the sorority, so luckily I know the sisters a little better, but it kinda sucks bc they totally mess with my head all the time and try to tell me stuff like all the girls I want arent taking littles, or that my favorites want someone else. Its getting really nervewracking!!!

hang in there justhey!!! i'm sure your big will be awesome!!! both of my bigs are ! i get twice the love! :)

I got my big last night! I'm so excited -- she's one of my favorite girls in the house.

Sapphire Sister Revealing
 

I just had to add my post about how excited I am because I'm getting a new Sapphire Sister. Yeah. We are revealing ourselves tomorrow to our new "littles" (shhhhh....we're not supposed to use that word).

I think I may have one of the largest families if not the largest now. We have family mascots and ours is the star. So in star family this is who we have: I'm a founding sister and part of a set of triplets. My two Sapphire Sisters that founded with me didn't get littles before they went Alum.

I have a Little from last fall and am getting one this fall
She took a little in the spring - my grand little just happened to be one of my best friends so I was happy when she ended up in my family.
My Grand little is getting a new Sapphire Sister too which will now make me a great grand big.

I love my family of Sapphire Sisters!!!!

traditionally, my chapter does big/lil on halloween.. i am super excited to get a big.. there are already 1 or 2 sophomores that i totally love in my house and would love to be their little.. we'll see

I just got a grand little 2 weeks ago. Which is awesome, she just emailed me a picture of my big, my lil, her, and me. My family is one of alcoholics (just kidding, but we love a good party) and we alternate yankee vs. 'southern belle' ... haha, my big sis June is from GA, I'm from NJ, my lil lindsey is from SC, and my grand lil is from DE. Anyway, I'm excited! I hope everyone's famlies grow and y'all have fun!!
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Y'all, I'm so stressed out about the whole Big/Little thing. On Sunday night, we submitted a list of three sisters that we might want as our Bigs. It took me FOREVER to decide who to put as #2 and #3, but I was sure of the girl who was #1... she preffed me and I think she would just be the greatest Big ever.

But tonight, I had my Phi study group (to learn the creed and other important stuff), and one of the girls in my group said that she had picked her too! I guess I hadn't even considered the idea that someone else might want the same girl as her Big.

So now what happens if EVERYONE on my list is taken by someone else? I tried to put down younger sisters, because some of the older girls might not be taking on Littles this year. I am very stressed about the whole situation... because I have at least two weeks until the Revealing. What if I end up with some random sister and I do not even like her?

AHHHHH.

Do you all mind if an OLD (;))alumna butts in on this thread?

I've been pretty active in Alpha Gam's extension and colonization efforts at Chapman University. A few weeks ago, the advisors asked the Los Angeles and Orange Junior Circles (our young alumnae groups) to serve as Pearl Sisters (i.e., surrogate sister-mothers) for the colony members.

I'm proud to let everyone know that I have two amazing little Pearl Sisters! They are darling in every sense of the word, and I'm even taking them shopping for their initiation dresses on Friday. (LOL, wish us luck on that!)

Its such a unique and wonderful opportunity for our young alumnae. We all feel like we're 18 again! :D

CarolinaCutie,

I guess in reality, you may not get the person you preffed #1 or even someone on your list. This happened to me. I was really shy after pledging and basically only knew one older sister very well. Her best friend from home was in my pledge class so basically she had to choose between us. She hand picked my big for me based on what she knew about me. It wasn't someone I knew, and yes, when I found out I was a little disappointed. BUT it was a wonderful opportunity for me to meet and get close to another sister who I may not have sought out. We were great friends and still keep in touch today (after, gulp, almost 15 years).

Keep your chin up! Your sisters will take care of you!

My little didn't get any of her three choices for her little...insted of taking someone she didn't know at all, she allowed someone else to take a new little (her's had transferred) and waited a whole year. And then my little was placed as first to get whoever she wanted/wanted her the most...and we got her! And my grand-lil is the best extension to our family!

Since we are just a colony we have twin sisters and I'm so excited about mine! She is a sophomore named Kristy and she is so cute! We are both legacies, we both have boyfriends named Chris, we are both from the same area, we both have majors that deal with children, and she is running for VP Communications and I want to be the Director of E-Communication (Webmaster,etc.) - so I'd be right under her and get to work with her all of the time! We are so perfect for each other! I'm so thrilled! And since we are just a colony we can start any tradition we want for our family! Any suggestions?! :D

Maria, congratulations on your Pearl Sisters! :)

Big Sister
 

In my sorority we get our big sister at close rush. They are like your guide through the pledging...I love my big sister...

In my house the new members get a new Heart sis every week for four weeks. Heart sisters get you small gifts, take you out, and hang out with you. Usually the initiates take their heart sisters out in groups, so they turn into big sisterhood events. Then after four weeks the girls write down all the girls they know in the house, and rank them in order of who they would want as a pledge mom. The initiates do the same thing and the New Member Ed chair matches up the pledge kids and moms! It's really fun- we have pledge mom night next week and I'm so excited!

We also have this thing called Guardian Turtles- an older girl in the house, usually a senior, will pick a pledge to secretly "watch" for the four weeks leading up to initiation. GTs give their pledges little gifts every week along with a note, and it's like a secret Santa type thing. GTs reveal themselves on the night before initiation- it's a cool way to get to know the older girls in the house. We also have a mentor program, where you get matched up with a pledge who has a similar major and curriculum to you, and you give her school advice and you have the option of studying with her and stuff.

I got who I wanted! But I was too afraid to list the name because I thought he didn't like me. So...there ya go. He is a great friend and limited the shots I took last night. :) Helped a freaking ton during pledging too.

I am so excited!!!!
 

I am soo excited right now!!! We have a fall pledge class of five right now, and two more on the way hopefully! I am sponsoring girls this semester, so hopefully Iwill get a little. The girls are really cool, and I really seem to be bonding with one of them. We have our mutual selection at the end of this month, so wish me luck!

~Lacey

we just found out at our pledge meeting yesterday that we are doing BIG/LIL on OCTOBER 24th.. i am so pumped to get a BIG

Revelation next Wednesday!
 

Tonight we got to list 5 of our potential bigs. Then next Wednesday its Big/Little Revelation. I'm sooooooooo excited!!!!!! yah!:)

I FOUND OUT WHO MY LITTLE IS TODAY !!! it's going to be sooo hard not to say anything !!!! I'm soo excited because I got my first choice and my second choice is going to be my Big's second little.. (I was her first) so she'll still be in my family !!

I'm a little! I got my big last night. Her name is Meredith and she's one of the sweetest girls I know. :)

i'm confused... you are in... but you just got your big... :confused:

i'm getting a little this fall... i was supposed to last fall- but she and i didn't click and i decided not to take her- it was a really bad situation and really upsetting.... and i'm the last one in my pledge class of a year and half ago not to have one :(

i couldn't even be assistant pledge mom because then i couldn't take a little... but this girl meghan who i absolutely love is hopefully pledging- so we'll see how that goes :D

No, I'm not in, I just post here alot. I mention that I'm a New Member in alot of my posts :)

I have two of the most fabulous littles. I got my first one last year. She and I are superclose and always hung out. Unfortunately, she transferred to UGA to be closer to home. She still comes to visit a lot, though.

I got my second one this year. She's the complete opposite of my first little, but she is a lot of fun! I'm just sad that I have to graduate and leave her in a few weeks :( I'm trying to get a job in the area, though, and if I don't, I'll leave her in good hands :D

It's that time of year again! Anyone have a new little that they need to brag on? :)

As for me, I don't have a little yet, but we'll see after formal recruitment is over!

I found out I got a new Little on Thursday night! I'm REAL excited about it too! I haven't had good luck with my Phi Mu family the past few years. My big and my little both left Phi Mu, so it's VERY exciting for me, even as a senior.

But yeah, I could go on for years about my little! She's had Phi Mu in her blood for quite awhile... her sister-in-law(who she's known for almost 8 years) was a Phi Mu in my chapter(my great grandbig even!) and was voted the Best Collegiate Member in the country a few years back. So, my little has known since 8th grade she wanted to be a Phi Mu at Lambuth! It's just really refreshing to see someone SO excited about Phi Mu, about Lambuth, and about life in general. I can't wait til Revealment on the 29th!!!

My Big!!!!
 

Hey Guys,
I'm new to the board, but I noticed this thread and had to post! Our Big/Little week was Sunday-Wednesday and I got my Big last night! She rocks! She was my rosebuddy and told me she didn't wanna give me up! I figured out who she was before reveal though, so she said I took the fun out of it. LOL Oh well.

I HEART MY BIG!!!! :D :D :D




New Member of Alpha Omicron Pi Pi Alpha chapter

Well it took 4 years but I finally got a lil brother a little while ago, I was pretty selective the first 3 years and the year before that we lost our pledge class (long story lots of things came up that just made it unfeasible for them to keep pledging) but yea my lil bro is awesome, he's so cute i8ts like his goal in life is to make me happy which is funny cause all I do is take him out and shit cause hes my lil and i want him to have a good time haha

lil sis wise i'm getting my 4th next month =)