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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…
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The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerLife is full of entropy
Entropy is real. Entropy is part of the current natural order. The dictionary defines it as, “a gradual decline into disorder.” That’s real life. Gardens grow…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerLife will change. It’s OK.
Life goes through different phases, stages, and seasons. Nothing we do will change that. Instead, what we do should work with that reality. Planning and…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerHomeschooling Middle School Boys
The enthusiasm of our young children energizes us. When they delight in poems, birds, stories, and singing, we take a deep breath and are relieved. This…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerSet Your Mind - Intentionally.
Own your thoughts: Change the subject in your head. When fear or doubt creeps in, we don’t need to reason with it or explain it away or answer it. We can…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerOrganize your attitude: a conversation with Virginia Lee Rogers
We’re kicking off the year with a conversation Virginia Lee Rogers and I had about keeping our attitudes organized in the midst of real life.
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerSO073: Living From a State of Rest
Season 12: Finding Rest as a Homeschool Mom This season of the Simplified Organization Audio Blog is excerpts from an hour-long live chat all about resting as…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerTeaching is Hard & Worth It: Seneca on Education
The result of an education in wisdom is a resilient integrity which knows what should be done and has the strength of mind and body to do it.
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerAll God’s Truth: Clement on Classical Christian Education
The classical tradition does not see itself as a new thing, but as part of the stream of Western civilization that started in Greece, grew in the middle ages…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerThe 3 Kinds of Rest We Need
We’ve all felt the exhaustion, the overwhelming sense of vague failure or defeat, the frustration of feeling like our goals are impossible. Maybe some women…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerFruitful Subjects of Study: Tacitus & Philo on the Liberal Arts
General and wide knowledge is the foundation of the educated mind, the roots that nourish it and cause it to grow. In order to bear fruit, we must learn and…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerRest Isn’t Easy
We’ve all felt the exhaustion, the overwhelming sense of vague failure or defeat, the frustration of feeling like our goals are impossible. Maybe some women…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerDuties & Delights: Quintilian on Teachers & Students
Quintilian wants young children to be exposed to literary thought and literary quality, because they are naturally receptive and retentive at this age – so…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerThe Rest that God Gives
We’ve all felt the exhaustion, the overwhelming sense of vague failure or defeat, the frustration of feeling like our goals are impossible. Maybe some women…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerImagination & Expectation: Quintilian on Education
We can’t simply demand character out of a person, nor can we explain it with abstract and theoretical definitions and expect that to be sufficient. We have to…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerBusy Moms: There is No Guilt in Resting
We’ve all felt the exhaustion, the overwhelming sense of vague failure or defeat, the frustration of feeling like our goals are impossible. Maybe some women…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerHomeschool Math Tips with Virginia Lee
If there's one subject that can get a homeschool mom down, it's usually math. Listen in on this conversation between Mystie and Virginia Lee about getting math…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerRealistic Ways to Rest for Moms with Virginia Lee
So this season is about rest. All the rest of the episodes are going to be clips from a workshop that I did on getting rest as a mom because sometimes that…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerThoughts on Jayber Crow and Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
Somehow, Berry makes you feel affection for all mankind, even those who aren’t likable and maybe even those who are wicked but especially for those who are…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerThoughts on Consider This by Karen Glass
As I’ve written before, the goal of education is virtue, and Karen’s first chapter jumps right into the heart of it. She proves that virtue – right acting –…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerFamily is For Fellowship.
Too often, when we start making goals around keeping house better or getting more done, our focus shifts too far and we start seeing these means as ends –…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerThoughts on Living Page by Laurie Bestvater
I recently finished Laurie Bestvater's The Living Page: Keeping Notebooks with Charlotte Mason, and I loved it. I bought it based on Brandy's reviews, and I'm…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler15 Minutes is All You Need
One way we give in to perfectionism is to not start unless we know we can finish and get the results we want. But as busy moms, that is rarely possible. We…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerChoose Your Expression.
It’s easy to smile at our newborns, smile at a cute three-year-old antic, smile at our bigger kids when they volunteer to help out. It’s good our life as…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerThoughts on Crazy Busy by Kevin DeYoung & Shopping for Time by Carolyn Mahaney
“Cross to carry” is a phrase used to talk about suffering as a lot in life, but this portrayal of that cross, that suffering, as an active things in our life…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerResist Plan Perfectionism. Iterate.
It’s paralyzed us all. Perfectionism. We wait to start moving forward with our plans because we aren’t sure if we’re doing it right. We aren’t sure they will…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerThoughts on Mere Motherhood by Cindy Rollins
If you are starting out homeschooling with a bright-eyed little 5-year-old – a toddler tagging along and another on the way – you eat up the stories of those…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerSO063: Give Yourself a Motto
Season 11: Attitude Organization Tips When we recite a handful of mottos over and over again, and conform our choices to them, we more and more naturally live…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerBook Recommendations with Virginia Lee
What should a homeschooling mom read? Mystie and Virginia Lee each recommend their top three book picks.
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerTips for Attitude Change (with Virginia Lee)
tips for organizing our attitude because it often needs it with stuff day to day.
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerClassical Education Demands Habit Training
Certainly we are to watch and train the habits of our children and our household, but that is not all the work to be done. The confirmation of the habit into a…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerThe Role of Vocations in Planning
When we plan, we need to be planning to work within our vocations.
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerEducation Requires Language
It is by means of language that we both procure and use wisdom – for does not thought require language? So practice in speaking and in using language (today we…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerBuild the Habit of Looking at Your Plan
The real secret of making your planners work is actually looking at it.
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerWhere Education Begins & Ends
Education in the broad, unspecialized sense is summed up as how to obey and how to rule. One who rules without obeying is a tyrant, one who obeys without…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerPlanning Seasonally
Planning is not always going to be the same. We need to be flexible according to our needs at the time we're in.
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerA Teacher’s Goals
Mothers must be both teachers and learners. As mothers home with our children all day every day, we are their primary influence, especially in the younger…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerYour Planner is a Focus Tool
Learn what your planner really is supposed to be doing for you.
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerA Teacher’s Attention
If we start off on this homeschool journey with no idea what education is, why we’re doing it, or where we want to be at the end, we’ll flounder, frustrated…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerAre You Trapped in Productive Procrastination?
Productive procrastination is doing anything except what you really ought to be doing.
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerThe Reason for Education
The one thread that strings through all the classical educators from Perrin to Plato is that education’s aim is virtue – not a diploma, not a job, not a stack…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerWhen Planning Feels Like a Waste of Time
Sometimes planning really is wasting time, but if we learn good planning habits, we can use that time effectively.
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerHandling Plans with Flexibility (with Celeste Cruz)
Mystie – There’s a spread of abilities and also needs. How do the expectations that we have as moms going into that situation affect how we do it, what we do…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerClear Vocations
If there’s one thing that derails our attitudes, it’s feeling overwhelmed and uncertain about what we should actually be doing. There are so many options, so…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerHomeschooling with lots of littles (with Celeste Cruz)
Mystie – There’s a spread of abilities and also needs. How do the expectations that we have as moms going into that situation affect how we do it, what we do…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerPrayerful Pause
Anxiety and worry are attitudes we need to rid ourselves of. Peace and joy (among others) are the fruits of the Holy Spirit, the attitudes of Christ we are to…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerCommunicating Plans with Kids (with Amy Roberts)
Whatever plans we make, we're asking for trouble if we expect our kids to quickly comply when we're always springing new plans on them.
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerThoughtful Truth
Meditation is rather hip right now, but the kind of meditation I am speaking of is not emptying our minds, but rather filling them. The Psalms speak of…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerCH052: Homeschooling Middle & Little Kids (with Amy Roberts)
Season 9: Real Life Homeschooling Tips This episode is an excerpt from a video workshop Mystie recorded with Amy Roberts in 2016. You can register for the…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerIntentional Stories
What we think matters. While it’s still awkward and uncomfortable, we accept the story God is telling in our lives and tell it to ourselves. We can take the…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerPlanning with a Large Homeschool Family (with Amy Roberts)
Is planning even possible for a large homeschooling family? Amy Roberts from Raising Arrows tells us how to make it work.
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerRealistic Expectations
A potent attitude poison is unrealistic expectations. When we make a to-do list full of our own pet projects when our time is actually taken up with our…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerHomeschool Management - two moms talk real life
So much has to be done in a homeschool day and the homeschool management struggle is real. How do you keep track of the daily work in your homeschool and…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerBrain Dump Tips (with Virginia Lee)
So, I like to say that all organization projects should begin with a brain dump. So, I thought that the best place to start would be to talk briefly about what…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerOrganized Homeschool White Board
I’ve created a few iterations of a chore board over the last year and a half. First it was a poster board frame, and I wrote directly on the hard plastic…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerMenu Planning for Each Personality Type
Ok, I just can’t get enough, and I hope you can’t, either. There’s more than one way to menu plan, and your personality will predict which one is most likely…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerA Digital Homeschool Planner
Keeping track of what each student is supposed to be doing, and making sure they are doing it is one of the struggles of homeschooling moms everywhere. Here’s…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerHow Often Should You Grocery Shop?
A decluttered kitchen is one of the first projects to undertake when minimizing and simplifying your home life. If you’ve ever wondered how to organize your…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerHow I Catalog My Books
You know I love lists. And I also love books. So what could be better than a list of books? How about a list of my books? I won’t try to convince you that you…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerPlan All the Meals
I know it seems overwhelming. I know even just planning dinner sometimes seems overwhelming. But, seriously, who wants to wake up and decide in the pre-coffee…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerHomeschooling Without a Schoolroom
We homeschool without a schoolroom. Like many homeschoolers, the kitchen table is where much of our work happens. We use our kitchen table, we use our dining…