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

3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/cleanLife is hard, but we can cheer one another on as we each faithfully tackle the life God has given us.Mackenzie is a podcaster, voice actor, and YouTuber who helps women fight the overwhelm and stress in their lives with planning and lifestyle solutions so that they can live well in the midst of life's chaos. Mackenzie is a single mom of four kids ages 7 to 16, and you can find her podcast Live Well Anyway, wherever you listen to podcasts.Find Mackenzie online -At her blog: https://mackenziekoppa.com/On her podcast: https://mackenziekoppa.com/podcastOn IG: @mackenziekoppa📖 Get my latest book: How to Use a Planner Without Wasting Timehttps://amzn.to/3CcRzuy➡️ Take the free daily card challenge and practice with me! https://www.simplyconvivial.info/todo-list/🏆 Enroll in Simply Convivial Continuing Education and get practical life management mentorship so you don't have to be overwhelmed anymore: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/stop-overwhelm 3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/clean

3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/cleanStarting is the hardest part and that's definitely true of a homeschool day!➡️ Take the free daily card challenge and practice with me! https://www.simplyconvivial.info/todo-list/🏆 Enroll in Simply Convivial Continuing Education and get practical life management mentorship so you don't have to be overwhelmed anymore: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/stop-overwhelm📖 Get my latest book: How to Use a Planner Without Wasting Timehttps://amzn.to/3CcRzuy 3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/clean

3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/cleanDeeDee & Ximena chat with Mystie about keeping food on the table - for meals and snacks - while also keeping our sanity as busy moms with lots on our plates.Avoid unnecessary irritation! Get DeeDee & Ximena's free cycle tracker: https://chipsnsalsahomeschooling.com/cycletrackerDeeDee and Ximena (known as the Chips & Salsa Ladies), are two homeschool moms trying to figure out how to savor life through every messy moment. They draw strength from each other and like chips and salsa, they try to keep life tasty and festive. They believe in the power of community and love encouraging other homeschool parents through their YouTube channel, social media and BookShark’s podcast “Homeschool Your Way”. Combined, they share 20 years of homeschooling experience. Their favorite things about homeschooling have been learning alongside their children and all the fun field trips and memorable moments they’ve been able to spend together.- Follow DeeDee & Ximena -https://www.chipsnsalsahomeschooling.com/On YT: https://www.youtube.com/c/ChipsSalsaHomeschoolingOn IG: @chipsandsalsaladiesGet Mystie's book, Convivial Homeschool: https://www.convivialhomeschool.com🏆 Enroll in Simply Convivial Continuing Education and get practical life management mentorship so you don't have to be overwhelmed anymore: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/stop-overwhelm📖 Get my latest book: How to Use a Planner Without Wasting Timehttps://amzn.to/3CcRzuy 3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/clean

3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/cleanDeeDee & Ximena chat with Mystie about what makes moms irritated and how to combat irritation as a default response so we can have God-glorifying, cheerful homeschools.Avoid unnecessary irriation! Get DeeDee & Ximena's free cycle tracker: https://chipsnsalsahomeschooling.com/cycletrackerDeeDee and Ximena (known as the Chips & Salsa Ladies), are two homeschool moms trying to figure out how to savor life through every messy moment. They draw strength from each other and like chips and salsa, they try to keep life tasty and festive. They believe in the power of community and love encouraging other homeschool parents through their YouTube channel, social media and BookShark’s podcast “Homeschool Your Way”. Combined, they share 20 years of homeschooling experience. Their favorite things about homeschooling have been learning alongside their children and all the fun field trips and memorable moments they’ve been able to spend together.- Follow DeeDee & Ximena -https://www.chipsnsalsahomeschooling.com/On YT: https://www.youtube.com/c/ChipsSalsaHomeschoolingOn IG: @chipsandsalsaladiesGet Mystie's book, Convivial Homeschool: https://www.convivialhomeschool.com🏆 Enroll in Simply Convivial Continuing Education and get practical life management mentorship so you don't have to be overwhelmed anymore: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/stop-overwhelm📖 Get my latest book: How to Use a Planner Without Wasting Timehttps://amzn.to/3CcRzuy 3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/clean

3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/cleanThe best way to stay focused and make progress around the house and in your life is to limit your daily task list to three items. Here's how to do that!➡️ Take the free daily card challenge and practice with me! https://www.simplyconvivial.info/todo-list/🏆 Enroll in Simply Convivial Continuing Education and get practical life management mentorship so you don't have to be overwhelmed anymore: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/stop-overwhelm📖 Buy my latest book: How to Use a Planner Without Wasting Timehttps://amzn.to/3CcRzuy 3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/clean

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3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/cleanDurenda 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 3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/clean

3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/cleanEnroll: 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. 3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/clean

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3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/cleanCreate 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. 3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/clean

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3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/cleanGet 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. 3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/clean

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3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/cleanWe 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 3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/clean

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3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/cleanToday on the Simplified Organization podcast, I have Molly Nickles, also known as The Modern Homeschooler on Intagram. She's always had a job while homeschooling - and not always part time only, either! Find out how she manages a full time job (for someone else!) while homeschooling 2 teens - and why she thinks it's good for her kids, too. 3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/clean

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3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/cleanhttps://www.crowdcast.io/e/homeschool-logisticsWe know we need curriculum and books and lists before the homeschool day begins, but what about logistics?Logistics is our strategy for how things will be done - as opposed to the curriculum question of what will be done.Our homeschool days are more about logistics than curriculum particulars, so let's address our logistics strategies head on before we finalize our homeschool plans.Join me for a free workshop series that will give you 3 practical ways you can improve your homeschool logistics.https://www.crowdcast.io/e/homeschool-logisticsThen forward this email to another homeschool mom friend who might enjoy joining, too! I'll be giving away resources and printables and more during the live sessions, so you don't want to miss it!Each session I'll also give away a book to a random live attendee who participated in the chat! It'll be fun, energetic, meaty, and super practical. 3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/clean

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3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/cleanPlanners can easily be time-wasting rather than time-managing. How do we make sure our attempts at getting life together are going to be helpful and useful? I have three keys that will ensure they are.Take the "Get Organized" Quiz - https://www.simplyconvivial.com/quiz - it will tell you what you should work on next to make the most progress, quickly. 3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/clean

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3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/cleanCamaraderie-style accountability can help us spur one another on to any sort of good work: homemaking, homeschooling, holiness.And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works – Hebrews 10:24Camaraderie-based accountability doesn’t have to be official, with rules and agreed-upon terms. If rules float your boat, lay some out; remember, however, that our lives demand flexibility. Hold the rules loosely, as guidelines, not as whips. If rules scare you, you don’t need them! This is really just a friendship-maker. Make a regular and routine topic of conversation what you’re up to and encourage each other to dig in and do the work with a cheerful heart. It can be very natural and informal.Really, friendship-based, informal accountability is a way to do life together. In this way we keep track of what’s going on in each other’s lives and we can pray specifically and also encourage meaningfully and practically – perhaps even by lending a hand or an ear. It doesn’t have to look or sound spiritual or deep – yet it is. It is sharing the burden, even the mental burden, in an everyday, practical way.The truth is that we care more when someone we care about cares.Care is at the heart of motivation, and care is something we can give one another.That is, when we have a friend who cares about our eating plan, our home routines, or our Bible reading habits, it helps us care more, too. That little extra nudge might be all we need to make it over the momentary emotional (i.e. motivational) blips.Who can you walk alongside with camaraderie and care, and how will you regularly keep open the lines of communication? 3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/clean

One of Pam's brilliant concepts is the "minimum viable day."

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3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/cleanBe ready for hospitality with my free tidy house guide: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/ehapRead the article here: www.simplyconvivial.com/hospitality/So, we know that our home is for hospitality, but it seems so hard – it’s extra, and we have no room for extra. We want to know how to be hospitable, but it doesn’t come naturally.The one thing that makes hospitality so difficult is that we are out of practice.It is easy to slip into selfish patterns: doing what needs to be done on our own agendas, taking a break, keeping to ourselves and our own thoughts. Instead, we need to practice the habit of hospitality.The being hospitable includes but is much broader than having people over for dinner. It means inviting people into our lives – even the people that live in our houses.It is not enough to simply share a roof with people. We need to share a life – a full life, a conversational life – with them. 3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/clean

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3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/cleanI often hear from women who say they were organized when they worked in an office, but they just can’t manage to be – or at least feel – organized at home.What makes it so hard to stay on top of basic tasks? Why is organization so hard to maintain?I think it’s due to both the open-ended and repetitive nature of the job.There are no bosses, no managers, no teachers. There are no paychecks, no grades, no due dates.The tasks, once done, need to be done again, so there’s never the accomplished feeling of finishing.We have to not only make our own plan, but also be the one to follow through on the plan without oversight.Some of us are good at making the plan, but bad at follow-through. Some can follow a task list, but are less comfortable making that list themselves.So homemaking ends up being a challenging position.However, like entrepreneurship, it also offers a unique opportunity to shine, to grow in capacity, and to find fulfillment and satisfaction. 3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/clean

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3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/cleanMy book - The Convivial Homeschool: https://amzn.to/3rhFLBAWe homeschool to avoid the factory model and give our children an effective learning environment rather than an efficient one. Thus, our home life and our various ages working alongside one another is actually a perk, not a problem.So what do you need to classically homeschool multiple kids? You need good books, time to read and talk about them, thoughtful and engaged brain work, encounters with the real world, and discipleship into living well alongside others. All of these things the home and family come fully equipped to provide.We can’t homeschool well without confidence and independence – freedom – of mind. Classical education should bring both confidence and freedom by its very nature. If it doesn’t, it’s probably not actually classical. In The Liberal Arts Tradition, Kevin Clark and Ravi Jain use this definition: “The ancients believed education was fundamentally about shaping loves….It is for this goal of passing along a culture that the curriculum existed.” Kevin Clark and Ravi Jain, The Liberal Arts TraditionWhile particular practices and day school techniques might not be feasible in the home, giving our kids an education with a classical goal, classical content, and for classical reasons is possible. 3Rs of Meaningful Housework: simplyconvivial.com/clean

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