June will mark six months the Chickadee Nest has been in existence as a blog, and I can’t even begin to tell you how great these first six months have been!  I just wanted to write a quick note to tell you all how much I appreciate your support, your comments, your shares, links, and pins!   It…

One week from tomorrow, I’ll have been a Mom for 13 years.  13 whole years.  My sweet little Rocketboy is now a huge kid taller than me, who wears size 14 shoes.  Sometimes it seems like I can still picture so clearly, the earnest little blonde toddler lining up his Hot Wheel cars in “parking…

Happy Tuesday!   How are things in your neck of the woods?  It’s summer here, already!  Seems we jumped straight from winter (snow in April!) to summer (high of 85 today!) The kids are feeling it too, we’ve got two more weeks left of school to do, and they’ve more than made it clear that they’d…

I don’t know who’s more nervous: Rocketboy, or me. Actually, yes I do. I’m more nervous. Today he’s taking his first-ever standardized test. Homeschoolers in Missouri aren’t required to take these tests like some states are, but I figured with him skipping eighth grade this fall and starting high school level work, it’d be as…

Happy First day of May to all of you, and Happy Birthday to my awesome Husby ComputerGuy!  If you know him, make sure to give him a birthday shout out today! 🙂 I remember one year when the kidlets were tiny, we picked a bunch of flowers from the yard and turned them into May…

Once upon a time, I had a kindergartener. He was a sweet, enthusiastic boy with darkening blonde curls, big sparkling blue eyes, and a contagious laugh.  He loved his little red Converse shoes, Veggie Tales, Transformers, and had a thirst for learning new things. Even then, science was his favorite subject. We studied ecosystems: oceans,…

Hello beautiful people!  It seems like spring has finally sprung here in Missouri!  The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and I’m sitting here wondering if it’s safe for me to pack away the kids’ winter clothes and switch them out for warmer weather stuff.  Every year I do it, it seems the very…

I love dandelions! When the girls were small, we used to call dandelions “Wishing Flowers,” when they were white, and we would make chains, bracelets, necklaces, and crowns out of them when they were golden.  Even now that the girls are a little older, where some people see weeds, I see tiny golden puffs of…