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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Apr 1, 2022 • 29min
Get Organized #5: Planning without wasting time or feeling like a failure
Organization is a SNAP Quiz: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/quizDaily Card Workshop: https://youtu.be/XQ81AJz5_ZMExample 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.
Mar 31, 2022 • 31min
Get Organized #4: Put your attitude in order
Take the Get Organized quiz: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/quiz
Mar 31, 2022 • 12min
Dealing with perfectionism with Amy Sloan
No More Perfectionism Workshop! https://www.nomoreperfectionism.comPerfectionism trips us all up and sometimes we don't even realize it's our problem. We don't have to do things perfectly to be fulfilling our responsibilities well. Perfectionism is really just a guise for self-centeredness. Listen to Amy Sloan of Humility and Doxology remind us how to give up identifying as a perfectionist.
Mar 30, 2022 • 35min
Get Organized #3: A planner that isn't clunky, that works - even when messy
Daily Card Workshop: https://youtu.be/XQ81AJz5_ZMFree Brain Dump Guide: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/braindumpYoutube version: https://youtu.be/osTM2j8dCLwWe have so many tasks, thoughts, ideas, and appointments we need to keep track of, but sometimes the more we try to get the perfect system in place, the harder it seems to be to stay on top of things. Let's do a working but messy planner and actually accomplish the most important things without getting distracted and overwhelmed.
Mar 29, 2022 • 32min
Get Organized #2: Organizing Spaces Effectively
Get the free EHAP guide: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/ehap and discover how to keep your house mostly tidy most of the time, even with kids.We think of our spaces when we think of getting organized, but we try to make our spaces and lives into things they are not rather than try to make the spaces facilitate more life, more living - not more expression of personal style. Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/RpRprsEUhLoDon't forget to listen to part 1 and subscribe so you don't miss a single episode in the series!
Mar 28, 2022 • 29min
Get Organized: Why organization never sticks
Watch the YouTube version with slides: https://youtu.be/0LutEE_zI14Take the quiz: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/quizShare this episode and get the workbook for the series for free! Tell us how and where you shared at support@simplifiedorganization.com and we'll reply with the download link.
Mar 23, 2022 • 8min
Create an island of sanity.
We must remember that the point of organizing is not so everything is neat and tidy and clear all the time. The point is that we are ready to do the right next thing; that we are maintaining an atmosphere of love and order in our home; and that our environment supports not only our work, but also the work of our children – the work of learning and growing and thriving.That work is messy.Enter: the island of sanity.To help maintain your calm equilibrium in the midst of the chaotic, messy day-to-day, designate one small area as your own personal island of sanity.When you don’t know where to start, start here.So often, there’s so much out and so much clutter and so much to do that we don’t even know where to start.When you have chosen an island of sanity, you always know where to start. And starting is always the hardest part.Knowing where to start helps you get going and build momentum. Knowing where to start helps you build your habits and appreciate a clear space – even one clear space in the midst of chaotic clutter.Build the habit of keeping it clear.When I was learning to care about cleanliness and neatness, choosing one island of sanity and appreciating this one small spot in a sea of “need to do” around the house helped me so much.
Mar 21, 2022 • 13min
Abby Wahl's best kitchen hacks
Free pantry printables & guides: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/pantry Abby feeds 40+ people on the regular when it's lambing season - not as a big social event where people bring their polite appetites, but where people are coming in after a long day of hard labor and will go back out again afterward.So Abby has all kinds of tips and hacks up her sleeve to make planning and executing large, hearty, satisfying meals doable on repeat.
Mar 19, 2022 • 9min
Dear Mom who doesn't stick to her plans - with Abby Wahl
Free "plans that stick" workshop: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/unstuckIf we spend time planning but never look at those plans, we're just wasting time. If we make plans that are completely unrealistic, then we're just wasting time planning. If you aren't sticking to your plans, the problem might lie in your planning. Let's talk about how to make better plans AND then stick with them.
Mar 19, 2022 • 16min
Dear homeschool mom who wants to give her 5yo a classical education
Education as a program, even classically, did not traditionally begin until the child was reasoning. Talk to a 9 or 10 year old child for a time and observe the difference between his thinking process and conversational ability and your 5 or 6 year old. When the oldest is 5 or 6, and he’s followed by younger siblings, he seems so smart, so capable. He is. But he is also still quite young.Whatever you do, don’t try to start Latin with your 5 or 6 year old. Rather, read fairy tales, Aesop’s fables, and begin working your way through the 1000 Good Books list.Don’t construct science experiments. Have him spend hours outside each day, and go to different sorts of outdoor environments to play. In Teaching Science So Students Learn Science, classical school teacher John Mays says that outdoor experience is the best foundation for later science learning, and it comes at a premium in this tech-driven age.Start Morning Time, but not full-blown mimics of those who have older kids and have been doing it for years. Start with 15-20 minutes, including the reading of poetry and nursery rhymes. Pick a hymn and a Psalm to learn, add a new one every couple of months, and in ten years the amount you’ve filled your heart and mind with will astonish you. But it starts with one, not with a full binder.Do not despise the days of small beginnings.
