

Simply Convivial: Biblical Homemaking, Homeschooling & Mom Life—Without Burnout
Mystie Winckler
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.
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.
Episodes
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Sep 14, 2022 • 14min
How to get out of a mental loop & really think things through
Free brain dump course: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/clarity

Sep 13, 2022 • 13min
Avoid escapist planning!
Stop the cycle of 'new plan' escapes. Learn to make realistic, actionable plans rooted in current reality, not future fantasies.FREE PLANNING WORKSHOP: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/plannerShow notes: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/podcast/how-to-make-plans/The time you spend planning is often time wasted. But that doesn't need to be the case. Learn how to plan to save time rather than using planning to procrastinate.

Sep 13, 2022 • 12min
Your plan & routines have to adapt - wisdom from Amy Roberts of Raising Arrows
Create a working homeschool schedule with help from Amy: https://www.raisingarrows.net/homeschoolscheduleAmy's course will walk you step by step to plug in the different homeschool subjects, where to put them, how to make it all work, how to practice it and make sure that it is what you really need. Amy provides the fundamentals and principles that work very well for a lot of different people and teach just the basics of how to put it all together.We can focus on enjoying our day and our kids so that we can create the atmosphere of our home and homeschool that we want - one of engaged, loving learning.

Sep 6, 2022 • 14min
Finding margin in your day as a homeschool mom - with Amy Roberts
Amy Roberts of RaisingArrows.net is a homeschooling mom of 10.She offers practical homeschooling and homemaking advice and encouragement to other large family moms through her blog, her podcast and her YouTube channel.With so many people to take care of, Amy shares how she has learned to adjust her routines and create margin in her life.5 Steps to Get Organized Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPkowQCQW4x9EMFT5oeq8fwmmbP2JKPKv

Aug 16, 2022 • 10min
Juggling life as a mom and missionary - with Sarah Furrow!
Get my new book, How to Use a Planner Without Wasting Time: https://amzn.to/3dz3J7lFree interval guide: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/intervalSarah is a wife and homeschooling mom to three. She is an avid reader, a writer, and she loves to nature journal with her kids. Sarah and her husband Jason moved to Honduras 15 years ago where they founded Give Hope 2 Kids, a ministry that's caring for kids who were once abandoned or abused by raising them in healthy Honduran families. (www.GiveHope2Kids.org)Sarah shares about how she handles many responsibilities and roles as a missionary mom in a foreign country. It's easy to feel overwhelmed, but it's possible to reject overwhelm and walk with calm cheerfulness in uncertainty and busyness.

Aug 11, 2022 • 10min
When You Need to Walk Away
Free module of my signature course: https://www.simplyconvivial.info/story/ When I feel like I want to walk away from life for a spell, what I actually need to walk away from is my own selfishness and idealistic dreams.

Aug 8, 2022 • 15min
How to maximize your time and energy as a working mom - with Molly Nickles!
Get help with time blocking: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/timebudget

Aug 4, 2022 • 7min
How to be happy as a mom
We tend to think of happiness as a mere feeling, something nice but unnecessary, something transient and superficial. However, happiness has always been a topic of deep interest to philosophers, and there is a long Christian tradition of both what happiness truly is and also how important it is.Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Pascal, Lewis – all agree that what people are searching for is happiness. And that is not a sinful search, but a proper one. We were created to live in perfect harmony and happiness with God and man, and we long for what we have lost in the Fall. Thus, only God satisfies the search for happiness, a search we should all make because it does lead us to God

Aug 3, 2022 • 7min
How to be happy as a mom
Free guide: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/happy We tend to think of happiness as a mere feeling, something nice but unnecessary, something transient and superficial. However, happiness has always been a topic of deep interest to philosophers, and there is a long Christian tradition of both what happiness truly is and also how important it is.

Aug 2, 2022 • 15min
A homeschooling, working - happy! - mom tells all (with Molly Nickles!)
Today on the Simplified Organization podcast, I have Molly Nickles, also known as The Modern Homeschooler on Intagram. She's always had a job while homeschooling - and not always part time only, either! Find out how she manages a full time job (for someone else!) while homeschooling 2 teens - and why she thinks it's good for her kids, too.


