Nicole Chryst
Wellness Educator
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 know the seasons often seem to slip easily into years, but this summer truly has gone by with the blink of an eye! It’s been so fast-paced, I hardly feel like we’re in July, let alone August! The calendar tells a different story though, so I’ve been working away at homeschool planning over the...
I’m in the thick of homeschool planning for our third year with Claritas memory work, so it seemed like a perfect time to update the blog’s memory work box post! This isn’t an idea unique to me. It is adapted from the Charlotte Mason scripture memorization system. This method is a fantastic way to systematically...
This coming school year will be our sixth as a homeschool family! We’ll be using Claritas Classical Academy’s Cycle 2 memory work as the backbone for most of our studies. As usual, I’ve put a reading list together to correspond with our history memory work. Also, I’ve included a list of books to compliment our...
It’s easy for the entire summer to pass by without me being intentional about reading to the children, so making a list helps me stay accountable to myself. I love to read aloud with them, but I can often get caught up in checking off items from my personal to-do list over the summer (especially...
My first introduction to Duān Wǔ Jié, or Dragon Boat Festival, was in June of 2011 when my husband and I were in China to adopt our daughter. It was the first time I had ever stepped foot on Chinese soil. I knew very little about Chinese holidays and even less about Chinese culture. So...
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