NATIONAL FRIENDSHIP BRACELET DAY!

The anticipation has been building for weeks. The sweatshirts have arrived, been sorted, and re-distributed. We've adorned our wrists with all of our old bracelets. Today is the day.

This morning I walked into Starbucks and before I even ordered the barista said, "Oh my god, that is the most epic sweatshirt I've ever seen. That's awesome."

FBC girls arrived before school to get their sweatshirts from the stack in the back of my room and drop off food for our party. Before 7:30 we had already busted out bandana bracelets and filled the back of my room with cookies, brownies, chips, cake, pop, chips, and pretzels. There are signs in the hallway and our facebook statuses are updated.

All day long we called "Happy National Friendship Bracelet Day!" to each other in the halls and more girls popped into room 201 to get their sweatshirts. 

My friend Emily texted me and said, "Did you know that American Eagle sells friendship bracelets for $9.50? You can't just buy friendship like that." She's right. AE needs to witness the chaos that was the FBC today.

About 60 girls showed up for club. We had piles of food including a funfetti cake we ate with our hands.  Because the group was so large we went to the library to take a picture for the yearbook, lining up on top of and in front of the tables. We played, for lack of a better name, the screaming game which drew some curious looks from staff whose rooms overlook the library. 

Back upstairs we broke out the string for the mixed up diamond, extra bandana strips for 9-braid bracelets and all the food. It was insane. There are groups of girls scattered all over the room and spilling out into the hallway. I never really set down but was constantly running around the room giving directions for the next step, pulling out knots, starting bandanas, having conversation, or tying on finished bracelets. 

For the last 15 minutes we went outside to take more group pictures of whoever was left. I love junior high girls at times like this, "Make a pyramid! Great. Do a jumping picture! Piggy-back, find a partner, get closer! Ok, everyone put your heads together. Everyone look at Mary weird. Run at the camera. Do it again!" They do each one and don't worry if they look perfect or ask to see the screen right away. Their favorite was when they each threw up handfuls of snow in air...which froze their hands.

FBC sweatshirts are spread to people all over the country and everyone was celebrating today.

Sarah and Natalie

Sarah

Katherine

Gretchen

Sarah and Meredith

Karley

Soaps

Emily

Sarah and Annie

Ellyn and Mrs. Hessong

Sarah and Michelle

Alli

Molly and Megan

p.s. Holy cow this is my 200th post!