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The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler

Christian homemakers need encouragement and motivation to stay the course. Homemaking and homeschooling can feel overwhelming, but they don’t have to be. If you’re a Christian mom longing for a well-ordered home, a peaceful homeschool, and a joyful heart—without the stress or burnout—you’re in the right place. Moms can be productive and peaceful when grounded in Scriptural truth.

I’m Mystie Winckler, homeschooling mom of five, founder of Simply Convivial, and your guide to managing both home and heart with faith and focus. Here, we talk about biblical homemaking, sustainable homeschooling, and cheerful productivity—all through the lens of organizing your attitude and embracing your God-given calling.

In each episode, you’ll find practical homemaking systems, homeschooling strategies, and mindset shifts that will help you manage your home without perfectionism or frustration. We’ll tackle topics like:
✔️ Christian homemaking routines that actually work
✔️ Productivity, mom-style
✔️ Homeschooling with peace—even when life gets messy
✔️ Time management for moms (without rigid schedules)
✔️ Decluttering your home & your attitude
✔️ How to be diligent, not just busy

Motherhood is a marathon, not a sprint. You don’t need more willpower—you need a grace-filled, biblical approach to managing life at home. Let’s cultivate faithfulness, embrace joy, and build habits that make home a place of peace and purpose.

👉 Subscribe now and start organizing your home and heart—cheerfully.

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Latest Episodes:

How to juggle homeschooling and housework Apr 29, 2022

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Get a tidy house: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/ehap --free guide

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a homeschool mom in possession of a large family must be in want of a housekeeper.

That’d be nice, wouldn’t it?

Some families can actually swing it, but most of us are on our own when it comes to keeping up with both school and home.

Of course we can bring the kids on board, and sometimes husbands can lend a hand, but there’s still a lot to do.

Our homeschool year is over, but this is the perfect time for a home routines audit as well as a homeschool audit – look at what worked and what didn’t, and figure out what to do this summer to set ourselves up for a better year next year.

When your kids irritate you - with Virginia Lee Rogers Apr 25, 2022

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Handle overwhelm better: AnswerOverwhelm.com -- free workshop

As moms, we need to be realistic about what's actually going on behind our grumpy, irritable moods. We might think there's something terribly wrong, that we need to totally revamp our whole life and self, when really we just need to get enough sleep.

3 things to do when homemaking is hard Apr 20, 2022

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I often hear from women who say they were organized when they worked in an office, but they just can’t manage to be – or at least feel – organized at home.

What makes it so hard to stay on top of basic tasks? Why is organization so hard to maintain?

I think it’s due to both the open-ended and repetitive nature of the job.

There are no bosses, no managers, no teachers. There are no paychecks, no grades, no due dates.

The tasks, once done, need to be done again, so there’s never the accomplished feeling of finishing.

We have to not only make our own plan, but also be the one to follow through on the plan without oversight.

Some of us are good at making the plan, but bad at follow-through. Some can follow a task list, but are less comfortable making that list themselves.

So homemaking ends up being a challenging position.

However, like entrepreneurship, it also offers a unique opportunity to shine, to grow in capacity, and to find fulfillment and satisfaction.

Stop using your head like a briefcase (with Leisa Moulton) Apr 18, 2022

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Free Brain Dump Guide: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/braindump

Stop using your head like a briefcase because it's making you feel overwhelmed and incapable of handling life.

So much of what we do as moms at home doesn't have a tangible result at the end of the day. It's hard to recognize what we've done and be satisfied in it, but that recognition and satisfaction is the attitude adjustment we need to recapture the joy of mothering and homemaking.

How to classically homeschool multiple students Apr 13, 2022

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My book - The Convivial Homeschool: https://amzn.to/3rhFLBA

We homeschool to avoid the factory model and give our children an effective learning environment rather than an efficient one. Thus, our home life and our various ages working alongside one another is actually a perk, not a problem.

So what do you need to classically homeschool multiple kids? You need good books, time to read and talk about them, thoughtful and engaged brain work, encounters with the real world, and discipleship into living well alongside others. All of these things the home and family come fully equipped to provide.

We can’t homeschool well without confidence and independence – freedom – of mind. Classical education should bring both confidence and freedom by its very nature. If it doesn’t, it’s probably not actually classical.

In The Liberal Arts Tradition, Kevin Clark and Ravi Jain use this definition:

“The ancients believed education was fundamentally about shaping loves….It is for this goal of passing along a culture that the curriculum existed.” Kevin Clark and Ravi Jain, The Liberal Arts Tradition

While particular practices and day school techniques might not be feasible in the home, giving our kids an education with a classical goal, classical content, and for classical reasons is possible.

What to do when you feel overwhelmed - with Leisa Moulton Apr 11, 2022

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Free Workshop: AnswerOverwhelm.com

Today we're going to chat about feeling overwhelmed and about practical ways to organize your attitude.

Leisa and her husband and three kids have built their own home in Southern Idaho, first living and homeschooling in a camper while the home was under construction. So she knows a thing or two about overwhelm.

Building better habits at home Apr 09, 2022

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Why habits are hard workshop: https://youtu.be/dge2oieqJys

I would stare and shake my head.

My roommate in college made her bed - on the top bunk - every single morning.

Over 100 miles away from her mom, she made her bed because *she* wanted to.

I did not relate. I did not make my bed.

The difference was in our habits - AND our habits formed our tastes and desires.

Good home habits give peace of mind.

“The way you keep your house, the way you organize your time, the care you take in your personal appearance, the things you spend your money on all speak loudly about what you believe. “The beauty of Thy peace,” shines forth in an ordered life. A disordered life speaks loudly of disorder in the soul” - Elisabeth Elliot

The more I do work on establishing order, the more I realize what a peace-giving thing it is.

Scripture Memory Tips with Amy Sloan Apr 04, 2022

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Amy's Bible Memory resources: https://humilityanddoxology.com/year-of-memory-work/

The best way to keep our attitude under control and live out the fruit of the Spirit is to memorize and recite Scripture every day, all the time. Amy gives us some tips and helps to weave Bible memory work into our lives as homeschoolers and women.

Get Organized #5: Planning without wasting time or feeling like a failure Apr 01, 2022

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Organization is a SNAP Quiz: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/quiz

Daily Card Workshop: https://youtu.be/XQ81AJz5_ZM

Example planning pages: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/2021/planners-for-moms/

#1 - Look at your planner multiple times a day.

#2 - Do something from your planner after you look at it; let it guide your choices.

#3 - Keep your planner clear and simple.

It’s so tempting to think that the only thing keeping us from being organized is the layout of the planner page. If we just had that planner, then we’d finally have it all put together.

We spend time setting up or even creating from scratch what we hope will be our perfect planner that will finally work for us, but then it doesn’t.

No matter what planner you have, it won’t make your plans happen automatically. That will always take effort, time, attention, and intention – every day.

We need to not only have a plan, we need to look at it multiple times a day and we need to then do what it says.

Get Organized #4: Put your attitude in order Mar 31, 2022

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Take the Get Organized quiz: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/quiz

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