Goodbyes are not forever... this time.

This evening I spent a little bit of time with my sisters. Talking with some of them was just the best. I have not realized how much I love my sisters until this moment. This semester and the semester before have been crazy, hectic and completely insane and it has been hard to really realize how much you love someone even if you don't spend the time with them. As I will be starting the new semester in the fall as a Senior in Alpha Xi, I am feeling more love than I have before. Even when it is a call to go to the store for them, or to go run and errand with them, it doesn't even bother me that I am the person they call, that is just it. It is the fact that they thought of me long enough to make the call. I would do anything for my sisters, and we just keep getting amazing women. There are younger members that I want to see grow and fill positions that I once had, or that my pledge sisters once had. It is wonderful to see them being so brave to take on something so hard. I love my sisters so much that I cannot really truly express it.

I have grown close with my pledge sisters, and the sisters before my class. One is graduating, the other is going to be graduating in the fall, and that leave two of us. We will be strong as we always have been for each other. Calling on each other in need. But it isn't only the pledge sisters that I am truly close with. Not even all the girls in my twins' class. It is the class that holds my grandlittles. I feel as though they look up to us and look to us for advice and help. I feel like it is my duty as their sister to help them in need, and help them truly realize their potential as a woman trying to change the face of greek life at Boise State, as well as trying to change the face of their future.

I want my sisters to know that if you ever need a ride home; call. If you ever need something even if it is just to talk because you have bored someone else with the issue; call. If you are in trouble, and I swear I don't care what kind of trouble it is, call!! I will help you as much as I can because I feel like I should. I love you all so much.

This summer is going to be the hardest to spend away from so many of my sisters. But I hope that they enjoy every moment of their summer because the fall will hit hard, especially with some of our sisters going abroad. I love you ladies and I am going to miss you all so much!

Tribute

Today's post is not about ramblings or the ideas or suggestions that I wish people in society would learn from or take heed. Today's post is a tribute to a very amazing person that is no longer with us. Today May 8th 2012, we lost a person that was very near and dear to our hearts. She will always be loved and forever missed. Sharon was a woman that raised many children with respect and courage. She was a woman that no one could really compare too. I spent a lot of time with her, in the bowling alley and training horses. Her and I bowled on the mixed league together, and spent a great amount of time together in the bowling alley. She also taught me many things about horses, and riding and the Posse, and how they train horses. We spent many hours training Taxi together. She is also the mother of my sister whom I love dearly. Sharon was a big part of our lives, and she always will be. She put a smile on many peoples faces and warmed their hearts. My grandmother played bingo with her on occasion last time I played with them I won 75 bucks, I guess it was my lucky day. Not only to win the money, but because I was surrounded with people I loved and cared about. She had an amazing heart, she took care of her horses and dogs as if they were family, and even took in a fat, annoying cat that I couldn't take to Boise with me, and she loved him even though he was probably one of the biggest pains in the ass that ever lived in her house.

She was a wonderful grandmother, mother, aunt, sister, and friend. She will be greatly missed by everyone. Like my brother said this morning, "today we are all incomplete whether we know it or not." And it is true. Without her we are incomplete, but this is how life is. We all become incomplete and it is hard to take. It is hard to understand and hard to completely believe but we are all a little less than ourselves these days, and if it weren't for Sharon, a lot of us would not have been brought together to share the bonds that we now hold.

Thank you for your passion, friendship and love Sharon, you will be missed more than words can express.

-Britt.