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
Jul 17, 2017 • 6min
Evernote for Daily To-Do Lists
I’ve written before about the benefits of writing a daily to do list on an index card, but for several months I’ve experimented with using Evernote for my task list instead of a daily index card – just to see how going all digital would work out for me.I have gone back to writing out a short daily to-do note, but I learned a lot from my little experiment. Using Evernote for a daily to-do list and journal is definitely a viable option with several benefits.
Jul 13, 2017 • 9min
Planning for Real Life
I love new year goals and resolutions, but they can lead to discouragement unnecessarily.Sometimes we conclude that because we can never reach and maintain our ideal, then it is the ideal bringing us down. We’re tempted to stop trying to clean the house, organize the toys, lose the weight, balance the budget, or train the children because we never reach our desired (usually unrealistic) goal, or if we do, it doesn’t last long. However, the primary problem is our own paradigm, not our goal.
Jul 10, 2017 • 7min
Evernote for Home Routines
There is so much to keep track of at home.Not only does everyone want to eat three times a day, but the house also has a fast trajectory down Entropy Lane.There are apps for home routines. But will we really check yet another app consistently and regularly? Do we need one more place to keep information? Whenever feasible and efficient, I think it’s best to consolidate into using as few apps as possible to manage your home and family.
May 25, 2017 • 7min
Convivial Means Life
What sort of elderly person will I be? Of course a large part of the situation will depend on circumstances and what my particular physical or mental ailments will end up being. But what of the different temperaments? Will I be a sweet old lady, grateful and encouraging up to her dying day? Or will I be a fault-finding, cranky old lady?When whatever my infirmities will be come upon me — no matter the age at which it happens — what will it do to me? Can hard circumstances turn you into someone you were not? Or do they reveal who you actually were by removing your defenses?
May 22, 2017 • 4min
Gratitude Makes You Productive
Why do we do what we do?Sometimes, an end result can look the same even when the motivations behind the action are opposite.
May 18, 2017 • 8min
Convivial Means Keeping in Fellowship
Keeping short accounts leaves no room for resentment, no room for bitterness. It also means that even in the midst of argument, I am more careful in how I express myself, or where I let myself go — better to not sin in the first place than have to ask for forgiveness and make it whole and right again. It also means I can express myself openly and honestly and have confidence that we are both striving to reach unity and oneness, and in the ways we fail on our way there, restoration will be sought.
May 15, 2017 • 4min
Frustrated No Longer
I set the timer for fifteen minutes.Surely in fifteen minutes, I thought, I can make a difference in this room.The room was mine. The mess was an assortment of laundry, books, accumulated junk, out-of-season kids’ clothes, and random bits.I knew there was no way I was going to finish cleaning the room in fifteen minutes, or even that day, but I had to make a start.
May 11, 2017 • 9min
Convivial Home: The Dare
When the Bible says things like “Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.”God means it. It’s true. It’s what we are to strive to attain, and what we need to confess when we fall short.There are no excuses, only repentance.
May 9, 2017 • 5min
Realistic Expectations
What happens when we organize something?It gets messed up. Inevitably.We catch up on the laundry, but more clothes hit the hamper within hours.We wash the dishes and clear the counters, then dinner is over and the kitchen is in ruins, with stacks of dirty dishes.We put the kids’ closets in order, but by the end of the week the neat stacks are in shambles.We put our own closets in order, but then comes a busy day, and it all falls apart.We clean out the fridge, and then the next day a big spill happens.It is so tempting to think that our work is undone, a waste of our time, useless, futile.But it isn’t. I promise.
May 4, 2017 • 7min
Convivial Means Choosing Your Attitude
I don’t feel guilty for not doing the things that I have to do, I feel persecuted that I have things to do.The pesky homekeeping tasks should just all evaporate and leave me be, leave me to do whatever I want, whatever I feel like, all day. Stupid housework. Down with housework! Up with play! Housework is boring.
