BID DAY! BID DAY!
BID DAY! The day I was dreading and excitedly dreaming about all at the same
time. Dreading, because if something were to go wrong it would all fall on me.
But dreaming about, because it’s the day we all come together to celebrate our
beautiful and growing sisterhood and most importantly, welcome our most
precious spring new member class. And let me tell you, precious they are! Gabby, Maddie, and Megan: the itty bittiest but most perfect little pledge
class I could have ever imagined to be blessed with.
Our theme this
spring was, “A League of Our Own, and a Place to Call Home.” So basically
all-you-can-eat baseball and ‘Merica! Who would want it any other way? We had cotton candy, popcorn, all American corn dogs, delicious hamburgers, and red white and blue on every wall!
While
there’s always stress and chaos getting all of the decorations set up and organized, the amount of love and support you feel when sisters who have no
obligation to help at all come running to your rescue makes all the stress and
chaos worth it. From sisters building giant wooden boxes with the American
flag painted on them, to sisters going out late at night for last minute banner supplies and staying up to
the wee hours of the morning out of the kindness in their heart to finish it,
all the way to sisters driving you all around Denton to help you get food and
décor when you know they probably have their own list of things to do. It’s in
the times of stress and chaos that we lean on our sisters most. To be a
part of a sisterhood where even at 3am, with bags under our eyes and acrylic
paint all over our leggings, we still laugh together to the point of tears, is an
incredible and unforgettable thing.
After the weeks of planning the theme and the food and the decorations and every tiny
detail in between, it all became completely worth it when I peeked my head
through the doors and saw three stunning new Zeta ladies standing right outside
with the biggest smiles on their faces. It was such an amazing sight to see
them as excited to be here as we were to have them here. So after getting the
first glance at the 3 women making up our Spring Pledge Class of 2016, I close
the door, and about 10 seconds later… “ZETA! Z-E-T-A-T-A-U-A-L-P-H-A! GIVES YOU
LOVE AND SISTERHOOD EACH AND EVERY DAY!” We open the doors when we’re finished chanting
and the three girls walked right in with huge smiles and open hearts.
While my
sisters welcomed our new members, it was all I could do not to get emotional. I had the craziest goosebumps on my arms and the
craziest butterflies in my stomach. Nothing could match the feeling I had at
that moment. The excitement of having such amazing new
members and the love I already felt for them as their pledge mom was unreal. There
was an instant bond and that bond is Zeta Tau Alpha. I am so happy to welcome home
these beautiful ladies and I can’t wait to see all of the amazing things they
bring to this chapter.
WELCOME HOME SPRING ’16! WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH ALREADY.
Zeta Love and
Forever Mine,
Carly Armstrong –
New Member Coordinator
