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.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Apr 30, 2018 • 4min
SO063: Give Yourself a Motto
Season 11: Attitude Organization Tips When we recite a handful of mottos over and over again, and conform our choices to them, we more and more naturally live them out even when we don’t use them. They become the way we simply do things. The best way to form new habits is to take on the identity as the kind of person who … leaves places better than they were, smiles and starts, or doesn’t let a mistake or slip-up … Read MoreThe post SO063: Give Yourself a Motto appeared first on Simply Convivial.Support the show (https://www.simplyconvivial.com/membership)
Apr 25, 2018 • 13min
Book Recommendations with Virginia Lee
What should a homeschooling mom read? Mystie and Virginia Lee each recommend their top three book picks.
Apr 23, 2018 • 10min
Tips for Attitude Change (with Virginia Lee)
tips for organizing our attitude because it often needs it with stuff day to day.
Apr 4, 2018 • 11min
Classical Education Demands Habit Training
Certainly we are to watch and train the habits of our children and our household, but that is not all the work to be done. The confirmation of the habit into a character is work done by the person himself when he is independent. The test of character comes when each person is an adult – will he confirm the habits he was brought up to? Will he practice what he has been taught?
Apr 2, 2018 • 5min
The Role of Vocations in Planning
When we plan, we need to be planning to work within our vocations.
Mar 28, 2018 • 10min
Education Requires Language
It is by means of language that we both procure and use wisdom – for does not thought require language?So practice in speaking and in using language (today we would add writing as a method of discourse) is of upmost importance not just to learn to communicate effectively with others, but even to be able to understand within our own minds.
Mar 26, 2018 • 6min
Build the Habit of Looking at Your Plan
The real secret of making your planners work is actually looking at it.
Mar 21, 2018 • 8min
Where Education Begins & Ends
Education in the broad, unspecialized sense is summed up as how to obey and how to rule.One who rules without obeying is a tyrant, one who obeys without ruling is a slave.And both truly all begins when young children learn to obey, because that requires the beginnings of learning self-control.
Mar 19, 2018 • 6min
Planning Seasonally
Planning is not always going to be the same. We need to be flexible according to our needs at the time we're in.
Mar 15, 2018 • 11min
A Teacher’s Goals
Mothers must be both teachers and learners.As mothers home with our children all day every day, we are their primary influence, especially in the younger years. We can’t just wing it and expect great results or satisfaction.If we can be always learning, always growing, always stretching, we will be happier and we will be modeling for our children the life we’re asking them to embrace.
