The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler

Stefani Mons shares her insights from meal planning, homeschooling, and parenting with chronic illness.

Stefani Mons, a Texas homeschool mom and Convivial Circle Community Manager, chats about what to do when you find yourself too easily irritated with your kids.

Time Budget Resources: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/time Just like Dave Ramsey has you use cash envelopes for your spending budgets, we can reserve envelopes of time for our various responsibilities across the week. Rather than scheduling 20 minutes for folding laundry, 10 minutes for sweeping, and so forth for every task we have on our list, we can look at our days and weeks as a whole and res...

Free pantry printables: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/pantry Dawn has worked hard to make meals meaningful times of family relationship-building. She shares her insights and best tips from her years of practice. Meal planning, menu making, cooking, and feeding our family takes a lot of our time - and that's how it should be!

Time budgeting help: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/time Most of our overwhelm as moms comes from feeling like we don't have enough time to do all the things we need to do. We don't have enough time to do all the things, but we do have enough time to do what we must.  We have to be sure we're telling ourselves the truth and choose a right response rather than overwhelm.  When time is short, prior...

Free overwhelm workshop: answeroverwhelm.com With teens, activities, homeschooling, and work, Dawn Garrett juggles many plates. She is the community manager for Your Morning Basket with Pam Barnhill and she homeschools her three high schoolers who are each busy and active. Dawn shares how she juggles it all and what she does when she feels overwhelmed - and why she doesn't think it's so bad to fee...

Free brain dump guide: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/braindump What you say to your kids and to yourself matters immensely. Rachael Younger, a mentor-level member of the Simply Convivial Community, shares how she manages and teaches her own self-talk and fixes her attitude by doing so. Find out about Rachael's lego business here: http://youngerandson.net/category/lego/ Simplified Organization is...

Find your organization score: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/quiz Rachael Younger is a busy homeschool mom with multiple projects and interests who knows what it feels like to snap in irritation when kids seem to interrupt. However, our kids aren't interruptions. They're the point. We need to reject our irritation if we want to love our families well. After all, love is not irritable or resentful...

Get started: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/stop-overwhelm Most of us began our lives as wives and mothers not only without any training or instruction in running a home, but also without any real examples in our own history and life to follow. We want to identify as a homemaker, but still feel uncomfortable doing so. We so desperately want to do a good job, and we jump in with both feet and sudd...

How to handle overwhelm: answeroverwhelm.com Moms have a lot to do. Sarah Mackenzie is no exception. While homeschooling her six kids, she also runs Readaloudrevival.com - a podcast and community to help your family fall in love with reading together.  This quick conversation with Sarah will give you ideas you can apply to your own life to find time for what matters most and not let the mundane ch...

Free Overwhelm Workshop: answeroverwhelm.com Sarah Mackenzie, founder of Readaloudrevival.com, is one busy mama. She and her husband homeschool their six kids - including twin boys! - and run a thriving online community and podcast. How does she do it? How does she keep her plates spinning? Is the ever-enthusiastic Sarah ever overwhelmed? You bet. Tune in to find out how she handles it and what sh...

Homeschooling is hard. Here are 10 reasons why you may need to give up.

Get my new book! https://amzn.to/31nKs2A It’s one thing to start the school year strong, but quite another to keep at it after the weeks start blurring together. Motivation to homeschool ebbs away, and we can’t wait for some natural, overwhelming incoming tide to return. Instead of being tossed about on the waves of our emotions and hormones (which turn into tropical storms when they crash into th...

Get The Convivial Homeschool book: https://amzn.to/3reVoug When homeschool days go bad, we wonder if we are missing something or if there are better ways out there we’re missing. We want a lovely homeschool lifestyle, full of laughter and joy and definitely lots of learning – without tears. How’s a homeschool mom to make that happen? These techniques are how I work toward a better homeschool every...

See how your homeschool is doing with the REAL homeschool quiz: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/homeschool I don’t know about you, but I always start off the year thinking that this year will be more awesome than last because this year I’m committed to really being, well, awesome. This school year will be different because I will be different. So, a decade into homeschooling and having rounded the...

3 ways to handle perfectionism and get rid of perfectionist tendencies

SNAP into organization QUIZ: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/quiz I had put dinner on the table. Wasn’t that enough for one day? To get up and then face the collection of plates, cups, pans, utensils, pots – not to mention the counters themselves. Ugh. Soaking seemed to be the best solution. If the dishes wait, no harm is done. Really, I was being a better housekeeper for putting it all off until...

Are you a perfectionist? Is the reason for your chaos actually perfectionism? Show notes: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/blog/slob-perfectionist/ Those who want all or nothing generally get nothing.  I used to think I was not a perfectionist, because nothing I did was perfect. I was a slob, so how could I be a perfectionist? If all-or-nothing perfectionism is our tendency, then we shouldn’t be su...

Find out about our community: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/membership Hear from a number of women about personalizing and customizing a planner to make it work for your life and needs. Planners don't have to be one-size-fits-all and they don't have to be confining or busy work. Keeping a weekly dashboard - in any format - will help you keep your plates spinning when life is hectic and busy.

Take the "get organized" quiz: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/quiz How to set up and organize any planner so that it works for you. Planner organization can seem complicated, but it really doesn't need to be. We can waste a lot of time setting up our planners. Here's the brass tacks of planner set-up: List current projects. Update your calendar so it's complete and correct, with the next 3 months...

Work Your Plan: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/stop-overwhelm  A functional planner depends more on the user than the page templates and formats. You are the secret to your own functional planner, no matter what system you use.  Three Rules to a Working Planner:  It has a place for projects, notes, and a daily top three  You carry it around with you and look at it throughout the day  You update i...

Stop getting distracted and find the motivation you need to get momentum, find focus, make progress. Moms need to know how to stop getting distracted, because it's too easy to lose track of what's important and what needs to be done. We don't want to waste our time. To stop wasting time, we need better time management skills. Those skills include the simple practice of writing things down. We wond...

Download the free guide: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/braindump We all know the feeling. You can't focus, you can't think straight. You can't get a handle on life. The truth is that your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. Clear the clutter to free up your creative energy. Three steps: Spend 10-15 minutes everyday writing down the  1. thoughts that make you anxious,  2. the thoughts tha...

Find my free brain dump guide here: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/braindump When you're feeling unmotivated, it's hard to get things done. We want to be more productive, but when we're feeling that lack of motivation we drag and dawdle.  This one practice is the golden key to overcoming a lack of motivation and kicking your productivity motor into gear. You might wonder how to be more productive...