Insanity

The past few weeks have been insane! Not necessarily bad insane, but insane nonetheless. Let's see, what have you guys missed? 

Well Daddy, Mamma, Mark, Blake, Nikki, Johnna, Alison, Claudia, Levi and I ran a 5k! The Kaleidoscope Color Run to be precise. Technically Mamma and Nikki walked, but they finished so it counts! 😜

It was definitely exhausting, but it was fun and everyone enjoyed it.

In other news, Blake and Mamma have jobs now! Yay! They are both working at 1 Fresh Stir Fry. She is also working at Michaels. My Dad has been getting quite a few tech jobs as well, so thank you Jesus for your blessings! 

Johnna and Mark have both put in applications at Starbucks(also known as 5bucks) and I put in mine at Maurice's,(I have an interview on Oct. 1) please be praying that we get the jobs! 

Lately we've started having family band practice, where my Daddy teaches us to play different worship songs, along with the occaisional veggietales silly song.  

Nikki and Johnna alternate Piano, Daddy, Lala and Blake do acoustic guitar, Mark does drums(Ali's learning those!), I do acoustic bass and we all sing. We sound pretty darn good too if you ask me!

Little to no arguments have been had lately. Kinda surprising, but hey good attitudes are always welcome! 

We finally put some family photos on the walls, they look really nice! Oh, and I'm supposed to get my license this week! 

Also, we started the Schedule last week. I'll try to explain that in another post soon!

Thank you to everyone who has been praying for us, we know we are loved. Until next time!

The Buddy System

In order to help you guys understand a little bit more of what goes on at the Hill House, I'm going to start doing some informative posts such as this one. 

Today I'm going to show you how the Buddy System works. 

In the Buddy System, each older kid is assigned a younger kid, these are called "buddies".  Here are the assignments for our family: Johnna-Simon, Charissa-Tempi, Alison-Andrew and Claudia-Victoria. Now you may have noticed that there are some names missing from that list. Well there are. 

Gideon is taken care of by everyone, but his favorite person is Daddy. 

Mark is kind've the overseer of Emma, Judah and Levi. They're old enough to get their own food and get themselves dressed, Mark just ensures that they remember to do these things, and Nikki ensures that Mark does. 😉

The duties of buddies include: making sure the child is woken up, dressed (diaper changed in Tori's case), fed, hair and teeth brushed,  and that they are following the Schedule(we'll discuss that in a different post). We also make sure they're ready to go when we go places. 

All in all this system works really well for everyone. 

It helps us older kids get lots of time with the younger kids while providing us with real world parenting experience, it helps my parents not to stress as much and it helps the younger kids get educated more quickly! How? They emulate us, we have this amazing chance to mentor our younger siblings, and I think we do it pretty well.