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Simply Convivial: Biblical Homemaking, Homeschooling & Mom Life—Without Burnout

Mystie Winckler

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,

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4:53

Set Your Mind - Intentionally.

Simply Convivial: Biblical Homemaking, Homeschooling... ·

2019/01/07

Own your thoughts: Change the subject in your head.When fear or doubt creeps in, we don’t need to reason with it or explain it away or answer it. We can simply pray about the issue that’s vexing us and then “change the subject” we’re thinking about. We don’t have to engage fear or doubt and overcome them with willpower or logic. The response of faith is to pray, then turn it over into God’s hands and move on with whatever small obedience is in front of us.This requires trust and it is also

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Organize your attitude: a conversation with Virginia...

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2018/12/31

We’re kicking off the year with a conversation Virginia Lee Rogers and I had about keeping our attitudes organized in the midst of real life.

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7:49

SO073: Living From a State of Rest

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2018/10/01

Season 12: Finding Rest as a Homeschool Mom This season of the Simplified Organization Audio Blog is excerpts from an hour-long live chat all about resting as a homeschool mom. Find the link below to access the replay in its entirety! Decision fatigue is super real, and it’s not just our kids pestering that puts us over the edge, it’s ourselves also. Our own minds are always going, going, going. And that’s one reason why we’re brain dumping, we’re getting … Read MoreThe post SO073: Living

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10:46

Teaching is Hard & Worth It: Seneca on Education

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2018/09/26

The result of an education in wisdom is a resilient integrity which knows what should be done and has the strength of mind and body to do it.

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16:03

All God’s Truth: Clement on Classical Christian...

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2018/09/25

The classical tradition does not see itself as a new thing, but as part of the stream of Western civilization that started in Greece, grew in the middle ages, has suffered much recently, but still exists, particularly if we educate our children in its gifts and blessings and warnings. It is the culture of a people who sought truth, of a people then who met Truth, of a people who tried – though messily and often wrongly – to make truth the basis of their state and kingdoms, and always of a

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7:49

The 3 Kinds of Rest We Need

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2018/09/24

We’ve all felt the exhaustion, the overwhelming sense of vague failure or defeat, the frustration of feeling like our goals are impossible. Maybe some women out there can manage, but we aren’t and cannot be.We need rest. We know we need rest. But we aren’t sure how.The only kind of rest we can even think of is a “turn it all off” sort of rest. Go away. Escape. Shut down. Stop the madness.And that’s pretty much impossible.So, rest must simply be unachievable for us. Let’s just give up with a

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11:41

Fruitful Subjects of Study: Tacitus & Philo on the...

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2018/09/12

General and wide knowledge is the foundation of the educated mind, the roots that nourish it and cause it to grow.In order to bear fruit, we must learn and know.

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6:38

Rest Isn’t Easy

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2018/09/10

We’ve all felt the exhaustion, the overwhelming sense of vague failure or defeat, the frustration of feeling like our goals are impossible. Maybe some women out there can manage, but we aren’t and cannot be.We need rest. We know we need rest. But we aren’t sure how.The only kind of rest we can even think of is a “turn it all off” sort of rest. Go away. Escape. Shut down. Stop the madness.And that’s pretty much impossible.So, rest must simply be unachievable for us. Let’s just give up with a

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12:57

Duties & Delights: Quintilian on Teachers & Students

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2018/09/05

Quintilian wants young children to be exposed to literary thought and literary quality, because they are naturally receptive and retentive at this age – so what they are exposed to will matter to their entire course of life.

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6:35

The Rest that God Gives

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2018/09/04

We’ve all felt the exhaustion, the overwhelming sense of vague failure or defeat, the frustration of feeling like our goals are impossible. Maybe some women out there can manage, but we aren’t and cannot be.We need rest. We know we need rest. But we aren’t sure how.The only kind of rest we can even think of is a “turn it all off” sort of rest. Go away. Escape. Shut down. Stop the madness.And that’s pretty much impossible.So, rest must simply be unachievable for us. Let’s just give up with a

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8:57

Imagination & Expectation: Quintilian on Education

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2018/08/29

We can’t simply demand character out of a person, nor can we explain it with abstract and theoretical definitions and expect that to be sufficient. We have to illustrate – model, tell stories, practice, make analogies – if we want to help people (ourselves, our children) change.And doing so is demanding. It’s hard work. It’s good work. It’s necessary work.

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6:58

Busy Moms: There is No Guilt in Resting

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2018/08/27

We’ve all felt the exhaustion, the overwhelming sense of vague failure or defeat, the frustration of feeling like our goals are impossible. Maybe some women out there can manage, but we aren’t and cannot be.We need rest. We know we need rest. But we aren’t sure how.The only kind of rest we can even think of is a “turn it all off” sort of rest. Go away. Escape. Shut down. Stop the madness.And that’s pretty much impossible.So, rest must simply be unachievable for us. Let’s just give up with a

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15:16

Homeschool Math Tips with Virginia Lee

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2018/08/23

If there's one subject that can get a homeschool mom down, it's usually math. Listen in on this conversation between Mystie and Virginia Lee about getting math done, keeping it organized, and helping our kids progress at their own pace.

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7:18

Realistic Ways to Rest for Moms with Virginia Lee

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2018/08/20

So this season is about rest. All the rest of the episodes are going to be clips from a workshop that I did on getting rest as a mom because sometimes that just seems impossible. So, I thought today we would kick off that season by having a quick conversation about specific ways that we rest and recuperate from an intense day with the kids. And, I think that thinking about it in terms of recuperation really helps. It’s not usually a word that’s used in this conversation. We talk about rest

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7:08

Thoughts on Jayber Crow and Hannah Coulter by Wendell...

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2018/06/06

Somehow, Berry makes you feel affection for all mankind, even those who aren’t likable and maybe even those who are wicked but especially for those who are foolish — which is each one of us.“Membership” with one another is the underlying thread in them both, and these novels have given that word much more depth and richness than I had ever seen in it.

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Thoughts on Consider This by Karen Glass

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2018/05/30

As I’ve written before, the goal of education is virtue, and Karen’s first chapter jumps right into the heart of it. She proves that virtue – right acting – needs to be the end we are pursuing when we educate children (and also ourselves), and demonstrates this is the classical notion about what education is for.

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6:55

Family is For Fellowship.

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2018/05/29

Too often, when we start making goals around keeping house better or getting more done, our focus shifts too far and we start seeing these means as ends – which means anything that gets in the way of our ends is a problem to be overcome or a frustration to bear resentfully.And too often, that means grumbling against our husbands or shouting at our kids. We could reach our goals, we think to ourselves, if it weren’t for these other people getting in the way.

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7:44

Thoughts on Living Page by Laurie Bestvater

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2018/05/23

I recently finished Laurie Bestvater's The Living Page: Keeping Notebooks with Charlotte Mason, and I loved it. I bought it based on Brandy's reviews, and I'm glad I made the leap-of-faith, even though I am only a Charlotte Mason admirer and not a strict adherer. I think this book, with the history behind commonplace books and Mason's implementation of it, demonstrates more clearly than ever that Charlotte Mason was not an innovator, but was making methods and practices based soundly upon

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4:41

15 Minutes is All You Need

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2018/05/21

One way we give in to perfectionism is to not start unless we know we can finish and get the results we want.But as busy moms, that is rarely possible.We can’t put things off until the perfect moment, because that moment will not come.Instead, try embracing 15 minute chunks.

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5:45

Choose Your Expression.

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2018/05/14

It’s easy to smile at our newborns, smile at a cute three-year-old antic, smile at our bigger kids when they volunteer to help out. It’s good our life as mother provides us these opportunities to smile, because smiling is good for us and it is good for our kids.

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