The Brumwell Chronicles

Sound the party alarms of FREEDOM!!!! It is back to school time!!! Grab that book you've been trying to read all summer long, break out all the craft projects, and plan yourself a girls trip to Target and get some Tacos afterwards! Then when you get back home watch favorite your trashy tv shows and take a nap! Alas freedom is never free. Back to school doesn't just bring you freedom, it also brings back something not so fun. Welcome back all the GERMS!!! It's no wonder that school season falls right before flu and every other illness outbreak. Kids are kinda gross, and the one thing that you can always be sure they will share is germs. I can't tell you how many times I've told my kids not to lick/put something in their mouths. *insert clip of me on a play date with all the moms yelling at the kids "get that out of your mouth" every 5 seconds* Once school season starts we try to take extra precautions to help ensure our immune systems are at their ...

Nothing adds that little extra something better than Glitter!!! However nothing stays in your house and clings to every surface and stays for years and years to come better than Glitter! Crayola found a fun way to give you to joy and sparkle of adding glitter to your projects without all the mess! Thanks to Tryazon and Crayola we were able to test out these fun new products before they launch this 2019 holiday season! They stick to virtually every surface and make clean up a breeze. We got to try out three products along with the glitter dots, Sparkle Signs, Sparkle Fills, and Keychains. These packs give everything that our kids love! They have adorable templates, glitter, key chains to put on those new back to school bags, and cute signs to hang around the house. They also come with everything that moms love, minimum clean up and maximum fun! They entertained the kids for a long time and the moms not only got the satisfaction of entertained kids but joy of knowing ...

Summer Vacation is here and in full swing! Literally week one I thought I was going to go crazy! I quickly realized that excited new stay at home mom Summer and 1 year of being a stay at home mom Summer are two different people and I'm somehow way less prepared for summer vacation this year. A friend of mine told me that she's making her son a summer bucket list so of course we started working on one ourselves and thought we'd share.  Since we have three kiddos one thing that I thought was important to have on each kids bucket list was to have a special date with just them and mom and dad separately and then a special date with just them and the two of us together. We do try to have daddy daughter dates once a month either way but this would be an additional date for them. Maddison really loves the daddy daughter dates and comes home and tells me all about it. It can get so busy and crazy in the house sometimes, and she often gets the short end of the stick when it comes ...

I love holidays. Like all holidays! I love getting together with friends and family and just having fun. If there is food involved, especially chocolate then that makes it all even better. I swear that every year I say I'm not going to buy that much junk to put in the kids Easter Baskets and every year... I buy to much junk. Like, literally junk that I just end up throwing away within 2 weeks, so next year I vow to not buy a bunch of junk! Either way we had a lot of fun this Easter and did a few different egg hunts and it was so much fun to be able to watch all three of the kids run around and find eggs. I got my wisdom teeth out on Friday afternoon so I missed Maddison's school egg hunt but lucky for me, I was blessed with an awesome mom, one of Maddison's classmates mom always takes pictures of her and sends them to me when I am unable to attend an event that they have. It is the little things that make me feel so blessed by the people that we've met in our to...

Everyone knows that being a mom is a full time job, well like 40 different full time jobs. I thought that being a stay at home mom would be a lot easier then being a working mom but man I miss being able to get a break from the kids and talk to other adults about something other than my kids. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE being a stay at home mom and spending more time with my kids but y'all... it is not easy! Which is why I live for Moms night out each month! First of all, lets throw this bad boy out there because, MNO is one of the very few times a month that I not only put on jeans, but do my hair and make-up. It feels nice to feel like a real human again for one night a month. You can't have a real night out without going out to dinner beforehand! Had way too much laughing with these women and trying to watch the Penguins hockey game... come on, it was the second game of the playoffs for the Stanley cup and we had already lost one game..let's not even get in...

We are so excited to finally be getting some nicer weather, even if it is accompanied by rain. The downside to that is my backyard has a slight slope and part of our yard stays pretty wet after it rains. Which means if my kids go running around, they will find mud, and if they find mud... they will play in it and make it worse. So much worse... Yep... my kids found a small muddy patch in the yard and stomped around in it until it grew and then they rubbed it all over their bodies and then they threw it at my fence... Luckily they did strip down to their birthday suits before becoming completely covered in mud. Oddly enough not all of my kids were in the mud. Just the two that were old enough to know better. I still have one sweet kid who was just playing nicely outside, not in the mud.  Good ole Olliepop was just playing on the dump truck, riding around the back yard and minding his own business while the older two turd children were making a mess. Thank you Oliver!...

4 crazy moms, 9 wild kids, 1,156 miles in a car, and the ocean sounds like a recipe for disaster! Welcome to Spring Break 2019! One day in our group chat someone says something about we should go to the beach, and then we actually started planning a beach trip. Which I know my husband didn't think we would actually follow through on or that at the very least someone wouldn't come back friends. Good news, we made it, and we all came back friends! The kids had a great time and the moms had a even better time. We spent lots of time applying sunscreen, playing games, and laughing. We came back with lots of great memories and even more seashells. If anyone wants some seashells, just let me know! We rented a beautiful AirB&B a road back from the beach so we had to walk through one little sand dune area and boy you don't know how much stuff you are dragging down to the beach until you're dragging it and a bunch of kids through the sand! We got smart pretty quic...