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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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6:45

Grocery Store Tips

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2017/10/23

Ack! No milk! Off to the grocery store!Was there something else you needed? There was, wasn’t there? What was it? Oh, look, this is on sale. That isn’t, but I think I need some. Might as well wander down this aisle to shortcut to the other side.Oops – walked straight past the pasta, and we definitely need some of that.How many grocery store trips feel like a random grab-bag and confused wandering? It happens to us all, but if feeding our people and keeping the shelves stocked is an

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18:04

How We Organize Homeschool Stuff (with Virginia Lee)

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2017/10/17

Mystie: That’s fun. So this season, season 8 of the Simply Convivial podcast is going to be about organizing homeschool stuff. So I thought we’d just have a brief conversation about how stuff gets organized in our homes. I think it’s easy when you say “organized” to start thinking of the magazines or the Pinterest where organized means everything looks really pretty and looking pretty is nice especially if you’re a personality who’s good at that but I’m not. Really, being organized is about

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9:15

Grocery Shopping Tips for Families

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2017/10/16

We’ve done grocery shopping a couple of different ways and I think you’re right it really does depend do you have a baby, do you have older kids going with you, you know, that kind of thing. For awhile we used to, at the bulk store that we have, you can put in online orders so you can just get online, choose every single thing you want, and place the order, and you do have to be prepared because you can’t do it the day you want to pick it up, I mean, you have to do it at least the day

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8:27

Homeschool Mottos

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2017/10/03

We recite mottos during our Morning Time.I think the first place I encountered the idea was when listening to ACCS teacher training audio (back before there were CiRCE conferences or podcasts). The elementary classes of Logos School, at least back in the old days, had mottos they recited daily that then the teacher could call to mind when they were relevant.As a family, we already had a few little sayings – ways to keep a frequent command familiar, memorable, and pithy.Over the years I’ve

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4:45

Focused Habits

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2017/10/02

We are often encouraged to set SMART goals: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound. It sounds great, and those goals do have a place. But when much of our lives is about developing people (ourselves and our children), we can’t put ourselves or others into such neat little boxes. We must treat people as people instead of as projects. So for many of our hopes for the future, we’d do better to focus on our processes – what we do today and tomorrow and the next day – rather than

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9:35

The Secret to Sanity

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2017/09/26

In the first episode of The Scholé Sisters Podcast we talk about how levity – lightheartedness, humor, cheerfulness – is a burnout prevention method. When we sink into seriousness, into get-it-all-done mode, into self-importance, we’re bound to be pulled down, lose our joy, and want to give up.To prevent burnout and also to recover from it, we need to shed our anxieties and pride – and we do that through laughter.

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6:07

Productive Habits

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2017/09/25

What does being productive even mean?It’s not simply getting more done, but getting the right things done, done well, and done cheerfully.

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8:57

The Scary Homeschool Mom

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2017/09/19

You’ve met her. Maybe you’ve been her. Maybe you are her.Some homeschool moms might scare you. Some homeschool moms scare their children. But I think we’ve all experienced another kind of scary homeschool mom: the one who scares herself.Are you scary? Who do you scare?

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5:10

Start with Habits

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2017/09/18

Rather than grandiose goals for a new year, we should be focusing on small habits that we can build upon. These new year habits continue giving, because they become automatic. So we can gain their benefit without expending much energy to do so.A habit is an acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary.

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9:02

Beating Homeschool Morning Blahs

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2017/09/12

Sometimes it’s weather, sometimes it’s illness, sometimes it’s simply fatigue. If you’ve been homeschooling for awhile, you’re probably familiar with the feeling: homeschool morning blah.It’s normal; it’s natural; it’s bound to happen.But it’s also one of a homeschool mom’s most insidious enemies.No, I’m not exaggerating.

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4:01

The Habit of Making My Bed

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2017/09/11

I’ve written before about making my bed and why it is a goal worth pursuing, two and a half years ago, actually, and while I make my bed occasionally (which is a great improvement upon never, by principle), it is hardly a habit.

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5:48

Choose Conviviality

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2017/09/05

Is happiness an emotion reserved for those who have an easy life? Right now I have a child who thinks happiness is a life without math fact drill pages.And, he’s onto something that misery is dragging one’s feet and taking three hours to do what should take one three minutes. However, cause and effect might be different than his perception.

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4:29

Focus on Keystone Habits

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2017/09/04

Keystone habits, according to Charles Duhigg, are habits that give “small wins [that] fuel transformative changes by leveraging tiny advantages into patterns that convince people that bigger achievements are within reach.” Incremental change is the best approach, and keystone habits are the increments that have the biggest impact.

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7:25

Mom’s Mood Matters

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2017/08/29

It was about 5 years ago now that I deleted my old blog and started over from scratch, choosing the name Convivial Home for my new effort. A real estate agent promptly offered me a large sum for that domain, so I sold it and switched my name to Simply Convivial.I did not want to let go of the word convivial – though perhaps it is a more unusual word than I realized. Convivial has been a stake-in-the-sand word for me: it does not come easily, but because my principles and philosophies

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4:09

Habits, Not Results

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2017/08/28

So much goal setting advice out there focuses on achieving certain outcomes. We’re supposed to set our eyes on a particular result we want to reach and work until we get there.Maybe – maybe – this works with projects, but very little of our lives at home are project-based. Most of our time is spent in the day-in, day-out routines that build our home and family.

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11:17

How to lesson plan so you’re never behind

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2017/08/17

Some homeschool moms – maybe those with school-teacher backgrounds – have elaborate homeschool lesson plans – full sheets of papers full of ideas, notes, references, activities, and objectives.Many homeschool moms have no lesson plans at all.I have never been in that first category, but more often find myself in the latter. Even though I love planning, lesson plans seemed more like a waste of time than anything else.

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5:39

Evernote for Homemaking

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2017/08/14

Over at Simply Convivial I’m in the thick of a series about using Evernote for homeschooling, and I thought I’d make a companion post here at Simplified Organization about household records and plans with Evernote.

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7:52

Plan a Homeschool Day

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2017/08/10

What, out of everything in the plan, is essential to make our homeschool day count?Because more often than not, at least at my house, the entire plan doesn’t get checked off. So what does need to happen, without fail? Here’s my version.

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3:54

How to Get Information Into Evernote

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2017/08/07

Q: "When you scan things to Evernote, is this time consuming? Do you scan it to a PDF file and attach the file? I’d be very curious as to what this process looks like for you. I tried with a manual the other day and it seemed to take forever, and I had to try several different ways to get it to work."A: It’s fast and easy, I promise!

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10:04

3 Tools for a Sane Homeschool Plan

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2017/08/03

It’s one thing to buy the books and supples, to make a plan, to create a chart and quite another to actually pull it off in a typical day.Days never go exactly as imagined, but it’s worth the time to imagine it even so – and the more you practice imagining it and planning for contingencies before the heat of the moment, the better you’ll become and rolling with the punches of a real-life homeschool day in a household bustling with people.

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