The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler

Time Budget Template: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/timebudget Part 2 of my conversation with Viriginia Lee Rogers focuses on how to organize your attitude when you feel like you're going nuts keeping up with details and people, when it feels like there's not enough time to do it all (maybe there actually isn't!)

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...

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.

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 gr...

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...

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 abo...

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. 

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 m...

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.

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...

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

No More Perfectionism Workshop! https://www.nomoreperfectionism.com Perfectionism 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.

Daily Card Workshop: https://youtu.be/XQ81AJz5_ZM Free Brain Dump Guide: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/braindump Youtube version: https://youtu.be/osTM2j8dCLw We 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 a...

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...

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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: t...

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...

Free "plans that stick" workshop: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/unstuck If 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.

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...

Short circuit the boom and bust cycle by taking advantage of just ten minutes at a time. Don't overthink it.

Find Kortney's resources: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/kortney Welcome to Simplified Organization, a show for busy moms who are looking for practical help in managing their homes, families, and lives for God's glory. We keep it real without complaining and we help women overcome the overwhelm and perfectionism that comes from the comparison game.  In this episode, Kortney shares her menu planni...

Free Workshop: AnswerOverwhelm.com Kortney Garrison is a poet and a homeschool mama of three who works from home as the Community Director for Read-Aloud Revival. She also blogs at kortneygarrison.com Welcome to Simplified Organization, a show for busy moms who are looking for practical help in managing their homes, families, and lives for God's glory. We keep it real without complaining and we he...

free brain dump guide: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/braindump The root cause of procrastination and laziness is most often attitude. Again, ask yourself questions and find out the reason behind your attitude; with that information, fixing your attitude and overcoming procrastination will be simple. Don’t let your mind be a cluttered storage unit itself. Before you clear out all those back rooms...

You don't need a curriculum for character.