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.
This post may be better titled: The schedule with which we’ll start or The schedule to which we’ll aspire. Hopeful also works because I believe in at least having a starting point. If there’s one thing I’ve learned about myself though, I’m terribly fickle with an at-home schedule. I think that’s mostly because I like...
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...
I’ve had several recent emails asking about our experience with Claritas Classical Curricula memory work for our homeschool studies, so it seemed like a good time to review it on the blog. Especially now that we’ve been using it for a year and a half, I feel like I can offer my perspective to hopefully...
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