Nicole Chryst
Wellness Educator
Family Herbalist
Chasing truth, beauty, goodness, and all things naturally wholistic.
Faith over fear.
Ephesians 2:8-10
I’ve been married to my high school sweetheart since 2003. Together, we have four amazing children, by birth and adoption. When I am not homeschooling my favorite students, I spend my days on our 7-acre property where I try my best to love my family well and experiment with hobby homesteading. My favorite things to do are cultivate my ever-expanding gardens, wrangle chickens, ferment all the things, sourdough bake with einkorn flour, and figure out new ways to use herbal remedies and essential oils. I believe God has tasked us to be good stewards of our spaces in the world, and I guide my children to do the same.
I am a board member of The Sparrow Fund and an Empowered to Connect Facilitator. I love to dig in the dirt, cook nourishing food, capture beauty through my camera lens, watch the sunrise on the beach, and spend time with good literature on my porch while sipping on a hot cup of coffee.
I can’t believe we are entering our 4th year of homeschooling! FOUR YEARS! I remember feeling so ill-equipped and overwhelmed when we started in 2012, not really sure where our journey would lead. But day by day, month by month, year by year, here we are learning and doing life together. We limped through the...
I am so excited that we started studying Mandarin Chinese together this past school year. Because of our ties to China and our intentions of multiple trips there in the future, my husband and I felt it was an important skill for the children to learn. Also, with so many people using Mandarin globally, it...
I can’t believe it, but we just had our Classical Conversations end-of-the-year ceremony! It was a great event and all of the children got to share a little of what they’ve learned. Angel’s class presented John 1:1-7 in Latin, Lovebug’s class presented the Preamble, and Sunshine’s class presented Week 2’s sentence about the Pilgrims. I...
This will be our fourth year homeschooling and second time studying Cycle 1 with our Classical Conversations community, so we already have a book collection going. I’ve added a bunch of new ones too though. I may still add a few if they are good fits, but I’ll be working from this list. Many weeks...
Homeschooling these days looks quite different than it did at the beginning of the school year, and I’m good with that. We ultimately took several months of a break between prepping for Dumpling’s arrival, our trip to China, adjusting at home, and my Daddy’s passing. We didn’t really start back to school until the very...
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