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Originally posted by dphies00
Its a tradition in my family that bigs and little match up one-and-one in big/little ranking. We decide bigs and littles from ranking lists, much like formal recruitment. Also, I broke the series of blondes in family tree and started a brunette branch!
My big big big was the reason I joined my sorority - she got me during recruitment! She works with little ones in a nursey school right now.
My big was the warmest sister - I decided I wanted her to be my big at our first mixer, the night after Bid Night. She had the biggest smile, and luckily for this world, she became a nurse!
My twin came into the family the semester after me and she was also a nursing student. She works in a hospital in Tampa Bay right now. She lived right next door to me the semester she rushed and joined and I loved her to pieces - she was like a mom to whomever needed some support! Florida was lucky to have her in their hospitals after their hurricanes - she gave her time to rescue reliefs and stayed in a hotel and hospital while structual repairs were made to her home.
I have two littles - and we matched up one-and-one both times. I 'dirty littled' both of them - they were popular choices for littles in my chapter and I wanted both in my family tree. Karen was my roommate my senior year and Shaunna (another blonde!) became our chapter's President this last year. Karen had been our Member-at-Large. Both littles are different people - but both make time for people who need help and an ear to listen. I have two little littles and 1 little little little - and I haven't met any of them! My job has been crazy this last year though I'm putting more limits on how much time I give it. So I'll visit in April and reconnect with a few alums from my chapter (who I can't wait to see!) and meet these little littles and probably spoil them all.
Not that it really matters, but our family mascot is the butterfly!
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OK, well Dphies00 is MY Big, so I'll just continue the brag with the most recent members!
Well, before I get to them, lets talk about my amazing BIG Laura! She was the final deciding factor to me signing that bid on bid night and I knew from Pref Night (even before I knew I HAD a bid) that she was going to be my big sis. Laura was always an integral sister in our chapter and had more passion for the sisterhood than anyone else. As VPRecruitment, she almost single handedly turned everything around for our chapter concerning rush. This wasnt easy for her and like she said, we roomed together her senior year, my sophomore year, and she gave up tons of sleep for DPhiE. She was also the life of the party and is still known for making her rounds during parties ("I'm gonna go take a walk!!") I miss her :-(
My little Rayna is my one and only lil, and the only one I'll ever take, I'm sure. We have such a unique relationship, where we are simultaneously best friends but I also have a huge protector role over her. I seriously do anything and everything I can for her like she was my child or something haha. She's the nicest, most intelligent, and ridiculously funny person I know. If we had an class clown type award, it would definitely go to my little every semester.
So if Rayna is my child, then her little Alexandra, my little-little, would be my grandchild. And yeah, I act like that to her too. I'm such a doting grandbig, I spent almost as much on her as I did on Rayna's Big/Lil night. Alex is super involved on campus and is one of those people that everyone knows somehow. She takes after her big with the ridiculous sense of humor.
Now I even have a GREATgrandlittle, Alisa. I only met Alisa once, but I can definitely tell she will be a great addition (yes, another brunette! We all are Laura, except for Alex, but she's not a natural blonde ;-) Oh, and Shaunna's littles are blonde too, but thats almost another branch at this point)
For Dphies00's benefit...you have more family than you thought:
Karen
Little Rayna
Littlelittle Alexandra
Littlelittlelittle Alisa
Shaunna
Little Brittany Little Debbie
Littlelittle Melissa
and then Rachel's branch:
Kristina
Little Kathleen
Littlelittle Katie