

The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Mystie Winckler
Christian homemakers need encouragement and motivation to stay the course. 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.
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Sep 20, 2022 • 18min
Be unhurried, not overwhelmed - with Durenda Wilson
Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.comDurenda has been homeschooling since 1996 and has graduated 7 of her 8 children so far.She has been married to Darryl for 32 years and they have 9 grandkids.Durenda is convinced that home education is an incredible blessing, but only if we don’t let it hold us hostage to unnecessary expectations and notions of what it “should” look like.The heart of her message encourages parents to create a simple, unhurried lifestyle while growing a strong, cohesive family. It's in this nurturing environment where learning most naturally happens and where lifelong learners are grown.Durenda's books: * The Four Hour School Day: https://amzn.to/3LsE7G2* The Unhurried Homeschooler: https://amzn.to/3QYiIpo*Unhurried Grace for a Mom’s Heart: https://amzn.to/3RT37slDurenda is the owner/host of her podcast (Durenda Wilson) and website,durendawilson.com. She also mentors moms at simplyunhurriedcommunity.com
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Sep 15, 2022 • 9min
Start Monday Strong by Taking Sunday Off
Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.comEnroll: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/stop-overwhelmOh, Monday morning woe!Dishes piled in the sink, counters overloaded with random bits, laundry mounting high out of the hampers. Extra gunk on the floor, toys left out, books strewn everywhere.Everywhere I looked, I saw evidence that I was starting the week behind.Everywhere I looked, I saw that I did not spent the weekend as I ought. I clearly did something wrong.I used to think that I had to earn Sunday rest.After all, I couldn’t actually rest if the house was a mess. Who could expect that?So, if the house wasn’t up to snuff, I’d be cranky or despondent – which is simply another form of disobedient.But, like salvation itself, Sunday rest is not something I earn. It’s something I receive, right where I’m at. I might not like where I’m at, but that’s where God intervenes, nonetheless.I don’t have to pretty myself up or set myself up for success.In this way, every Sunday, whether the house looks good or not, whether I look good or not, whether I feel ready or not, I experience again in a small taste what salvation by grace is like.
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Sep 14, 2022 • 14min
How to get out of a mental loop & really think things through
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Sep 13, 2022 • 14min
Avoid escapist planning!
Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.comStop 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.
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Sep 13, 2022 • 13min
Your plan & routines have to adapt - wisdom from Amy Roberts of Raising Arrows
Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.comCreate 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.
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Sep 6, 2022 • 15min
Finding margin in your day as a homeschool mom - with Amy Roberts
Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.comAmy 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
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Aug 16, 2022 • 11min
Juggling life as a mom and missionary - with Sarah Furrow!
Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.comGet 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.
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Aug 11, 2022 • 10min
When You Need to Walk Away
Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.comFree 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.
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Aug 8, 2022 • 16min
How to maximize your time and energy as a working mom - with Molly Nickles!
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Aug 4, 2022 • 8min
How to be happy as a mom
Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.comWe 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
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