Rush

This week is recruitment week for my sorority (rush week). It is super fun but super crazy! There were over 300 girls I think that signed up for recruitment, which is insane! I am so excited to have more girls in our house and to get to know all of them. I am so amazed with the potential all of the girls coming through have. Every one of them has something so special about them and I love it so much. Every single girl I have met is so beautiful inside and out and it just lifts me up. This week can be really rough for the girls because they may be lost on where to go or they may not get exactly what they want. I know that everything will work out for each and every one of them though because they are such remarkable people and they have so much going for them. I can't wait to share my love for DG with the girls and I can't wait for them to experience everything I have!

Loving Life

I am scared to admit that my life is so great right now because I don't want anything to change. I honestly think that life couldn't get much better. I am back at school and it is so great. I am living in my sorority house and it is seriously so much fun. It is a big slumber party every night. I love being back with all of the Delta Gammas this fall. It is so awesome to have so many friends that have your back through anything. You girls all mean so much to me and I really don't know how I would survive without you all! Love you!

The House that Built Me

By Miranda Lambert

I know they say you can’t go home again
I just had to come back one last time
Ma’am I know you don’t know me from Adam
But these handprints on the front steps are mine

Up those stairs in that little back bedroom
Is where I did my homework and I learned to play guitar
I bet you didn’t know under that live oak
My favorite dog is buried in the yard

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
This brokenness inside me might start healing
Out here it’s like I’m someone else
I thought that maybe I could find myself
If I could just come in I swear I’ll leave
Won’t take nothing but a memory
From the house that built me

Mama cut out pictures of houses for years
From Better Homes and Gardens magazine
Plans were drawn and concrete poured
Nail by nail and board by board
Daddy gave life to mama’s dream

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
This brokenness inside me might start healing
Out here it’s like I’m someone else
I thought that maybe I could find myself
If I could just come in I swear I’ll leave
Won’t take nothing but a memory
From the house that built me

You leave home and you move on and you do the best you can
I got lost in this old world and forgot who I am

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
This brokenness inside me might start healing
Out here it’s like I’m someone else
I thought that maybe I could find myself
If I walk around I swear I’ll leave
Won’t take nothing but a memory
From the house that built me...

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This past week I moved out of my house for the first time in my life. I have lived in my house since I was two and it is all that I can remember. It has been such an amazing journey growing up in that beautiful house and I treasure the many memories I have there. I love this song because my house is the house that built me and it helps me reflect back on everything I have experienced and learned growing up in that house. I hope that I never lose the person that developed in that house and that I don't get too lost along the way.