The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler

Take the Baby Step Bingo Challenge: https://simplyconvivial.com/babystepbingo/ Making Progress One Step at a Time: Baby Steps to the Rescue Discover how the 'Baby Step Bingo' card for August can help you tackle small, overlooked tasks around the house and build momentum to overcome procrastination. By transforming everyday chores into a game, you'll reframe your mindset, gain motivation, and make...

Take Humble Habits: https://simplyconvivial.com/humble-habits If you follow homemaking blogs and YouTube channels these days, it’s easy to get the impression that what you need to be a great homemaker is to make sourdough, slowly sweep your house in silence and natural light, and decorate your table with candles you made yourself and flowers you cut from your yard. That’s the picture of fulfilled,...

Try Bust out of Burnout Bingo: https://simplyconvivial.com/bingo Transform Your Homemaking with Simple, Powerful Habits Join me as I share my journey from poor housekeeping to joyful homemaking. Discover the two key habits that transformed my life: placing scripture and inspirational quotes on index cards around my home for prayer prompts, and adding 'smile' to my daily to-do list. These simple ac...

Find Homemaking 101 here: https://shop.simplyconvivial.com/product/homemaking101/ Haley Williams, host of the Kindled Podcast, reflects on the challenges and lessons learned from managing a podcast while raising five children. She discusses the initial pressures to maintain a consistent publishing schedule and the eventual shift to a more flexible approach that accommodates her family life.  Empha...

Free! Beat Burnout Bingo: simplyconvivial.com/bingo Transform Your Home and Life: A Guide to Organization and Happiness for Moms Feeling overwhelmed with housework and life? Join Mystie Winckler, author of 'Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done,' as she shares her journey from being a poor housekeeper to a joyful homemaker. Learn the importance of attitude adjustments, personal...

Get Homemaking 101 here: https://shop.simplyconvivial.com/product/homemaking101/ Mystie Winckler and Haley Williams chat about managing home and family life from a biblical perspective. Feminism has poisoned our view of homemaking more than we realize, and Haley shares how she's seen that in her own life. They also discuss the challenge of balancing business and motherhood, and how they continue r...

Audit your own homeschool: https://simplyconvivial.com/audit 5 tips to plan your year round homeschool schedule: 1. Make your plan - either choose how many weeks your school year will be (and the state doesn’t decide that - you do!) and check them off as you go, taking breaks as needed OR start by marking your Christmas break, then schedule backward up into September working in your breaks and the...

Assess your homeschool sitch with this free guide: https://simplyconvivial.com/audit Discover why we decided to stop homeschooling year-round in this video. There is no perfect one-size-fits-all homeschool schedule - or even one-size-always-fits-you schedule! We have to be flexible and adapt to our changing family needs - which is one reason that we homeschool in the first place! Learn about the b...

Free homeschool audit: https://simplyconvivial.com/audit When I started homeschooling year round, I tried to prepare everything in advance for a seamless year. It was unrealistic planning due to the unpredictable nature of children's learning and development. The real success in homeschooling comes from flexibility and regularly assessing and adjusting plans. Avoid burnout by regularly connecting...

Join the Empowered Wife bookclub, starting July 12: https://convivialcircle.com In essence, by nature, the female is not necessarily floral, pastel, and soft. The female receives and productively transforms what she receives. She embodies and glorifies what she stewards. Feminism has taught women to be insulted when men treat them as special, open doors, carry heavy things, etc. Yet before feminis...

Now, I've read a lot of Christian marriage books that talk about love and respect, but none have actually ever given such specific examples like Empowered Wife. I think a Christian book these days could never be as pointed and blunt and specific as Laura Doyle is because specifies are immediately denounced as legalism. I have been married for over 20 years and have always paid attention to trying...

Free homeschool audit: https://simplyconvivial.com/audit When I started homeschooling year round, I tried to prepare everything in advance for a seamless year. It was unrealistic planning due to the unpredictable nature of children's learning and development. The real success in homeschooling comes from flexibility and regularly assessing and adjusting plans. Avoid burnout by regularly connecting...

Time management help: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/stop-overwhelm Be a happy wife - at first it seems odd that the first intimacy skill is self-care, is about yourself, but it's all part of taking responsibility for yourself. Start with yourself, not with what other people are doing or saying.  Many unhappy wives and homemakers think martyrdom is holiness, that sacrificial love means never thin...

Year Round Homeschooling for the win! Free homeschool audit: https://simplyconvivial.com/audit There are 3 different ways to homeschool year round. Let me tell you how they each work, and why we chose the year-round homeschool we did - and stuck with it for fifteen years. Watch the whole series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPkowQCQW4x8se43eCJoXU_aZbdO7ECK4 How to homeschool year round:...

Join the Empowered Wife book club inside Convivial Circle: https://convivialcircle.com The Simply Convivial team discusses what it takes to have a happy marriage - and why that's so important. Empowered Wife (find on Amazon: https://amzn.to/45ju0wY ) sounds cringy and feminist, but it's actually about taking responsibility for yourself, about recognizing and stopping excuses and blaming and compla...

Scared of homeschool burnout? It's a real thing, but might not be caused by what you think. Tune in to hear my #1 method for beating homeschool burnout! Make your next homeschool year better. Take the free homeschool audit - https://simplyconvivial.com/audit My pro tip to prevent homeschool mom burnout is to use a homeschool year-round schedule. Catch all the videos on how to do that here:  https:...

Tune in to this conversation between Sarah Mackenzie and Mystie Winckler all about Sarah's latest picture book. Sarah also shares about why she started a new publishing house for picture books and what life lessons we can learn from Barbara Cooney. Find Sarah's latest picture book here: https://amzn.to/3wRVvkJ Visit Waxwing Books: https://waxwingbooks.com/ Sarah is the author of Teaching from Rest...

Find your vocations: https://simplyconvivial.com/vocguide/ Rosemary was recently diagnosed with breast cancer and is currently undergoing treatment, yet she’s still checking in with her accountability stand-up group weekly and being such an encouragement in our community. Rosemary I would just love to hear your testimony of seeing God’s work in your life and family even as you’ve been struggling w...

Get my free meal time templates: https://simplyconvivial.com/freemenuplan Struggling to make dinner quickly? Learn how to spend less time in the kitchen and speed up dinner time with these easy kitchen skills and tips! Perfect for busy families looking to enjoy a stress-free meal together. Mystie Winckler encourages moms to organize their attitudes and get traction at home so we are no longer over...

Download my master pantry list: https://simplyconvivial.com/pantry Most overly elaborate menu planning instructions have you write a grocery list while you plan. After all, you want to have the right ingredients on hand is necessary, right? But that means the menu planning has to happen before you go to the store, which has to happen before you’re able to cook dinner from your plan…and it’s actual...

Free master pantry list: https://simplyconvivial.com/pantry With a stocked pantry, family dinner can be simple and easy. If you want to streamline and simplify meal planning, you need to work from your pantry, not a grocery list.  What belongs in your prepared pantry? Stock up on these must-have pantry items for easy family dinners! This master pantry list will help you always have what you need f...

Join Jennifer Pepito as she shares her tips on creating a sacred home. Learn how to bring peace and harmony into your space with Jennifer's expert advice about creating your own family mission and rule of life. Book bonuses - https://www.thepeacefulpreschool.com/habitsforasacredhome Jennifer is the host of the Restoration Home podcast, author of Habits for a Sacred Home and the founder of The Peac...

Free downloadable pantry list: https://simplyconvivial.com/freemenuplan/ So if you don't have a menu plan, what do you do to be sure there's food for everyone at every meal? Try a meal strategy!  Looking for a new approach to meal planning? Try a meal strategy instead of a meal plan! This video will show you how to create flexible and delicious family dinners without the stress of traditional meal...

Free planner templates: https://convivialplanner.com Do you have a hard time making a planner useful in your day to day life? Do you want to use a planner, but you feel like you're just wasting your time or doing something wrong? Kayse's tips on realistic planning and making a planner fit your life are gold! Kayse's YouTube:  @AnchoredWomen   Kayse's website: https://anchored-women.com/ Kayse serv...

Free template & master pantry list: https://simplyconvivial.com/pantry Do you hate menu planning? Meal planning is hard - it’s so easy to waste time menu planning. Overcomplicated, elaborate plans are a waste of time You don’t need a menu plan, but there are 3 things you do need -  1. You need a master list of family favorites. 2. You need some themes for certain nights - Make planning as simp...