Manage your home life with grace, balance, and wisdom by gaining essential skills, finding support, and embracing encouragement through meaningful baby step progress.
Most of us began our lives as wives and mothers not only without any training or instruction in running a home, but also without any real examples in our own history and life to follow. We want to identify as a homemaker, but still feel uncomfortable doing so.
We so desperately want to do a good job, and we jump in with both feet and suddenly find we're drowning.
Modern society conditioned us to think that the job of a homemaker and mom was mundane, simple, outsource-able, unfulfilling work. “So,” we unwittingly think, “I should totally be able to manage this and do a good job.”
Then, to our surprise, we find that it’s a lot of work and that we’re wholly unprepared for all it demands of us.
We’ve had no training in how to be homemakers
Our society is set up to believe that education is meant to prepare you for your work. We go into debt, spend 4 or more years of life, and plan to come out of that ready for a fulfilling career.
On the one hand, then, we buy the argument that homemaking is fulfilling and meaningful work, yet on the other hand, we don’t think it takes any real training or education to do it. In what other meaningful work is that the case?
Past societies didn’t have the university system. Instead, they relied on apprenticeships and relational training. Children learned how to survive and work from their parents. Tradesmen learned their craft from an experienced master. Knowledge and skill were passed on through relationships over time.
But mom is home alone with her small children, with no one there helping her see what the next thing she ought to do really is. Who will help sort out the details and make it all fit into a manageable whole? We can blame our mothers, but even our mothers, at this point, didn’t have mothers who taught them either.
My own homemaking development
I grew up in a home with a homeschooling, stay-at-home mom; I am the oldest of seven children. So, I did at least know how to change diapers, help with middle-of-the-night feedings, and cook a few meals for a crowd. I had helped with chores and knew what family life was like. So I expected to walk into my role as mom, prepared and ready to nail it. After all, I’d made my list when I was 12 of all the ways I’d do it better than my own mom.
So I was bound to fall face-first. Pride does that – and it’s good for us that God orchestrates it thus.
The reality is that homemaking and parenting are made up of innumerable areas of responsibility. There are so many plates we're supposed to keep spinning, we can't even track them all – especially when several have rolled down the hall and around the corner. Yet for the most part we jump in with a very short runway for a learning curve.
Over the years, as I’ve failed and faltered and struggled, and continually, by God’s grace and at His insistence, gotten back up again to keep at it, I’ve engaged in my own skill and management training by writing it out, over and over again. As I have walked this development and sanctification path myself, I’ve been encouraged to connect with other women struggling through the same issues.
Continuing Education for Homemakers
After years of running single courses to help other homemakers address their attitudes and manage their responsibilities better, it became a juggle just to keep track of the programs I was offering.
That’s why we now have a single subscription to all the courses, which have been consolidated and clarified in the process.
In every course we offer, the underlying assumption is that our attitude – our heart – matters more than whether or not the floor is clean or the laundry is done. We learn to manage our expectations and standards and align our thinking with biblical wisdom. It’s not the kind of thing a checklist can cover adequately.
What we need is not a new set of hacks and tips and tricks, but rather a perspective shift with relational accountability and guidance that will allow us to apply wisdom and grace in our own personal situation.
Instead of looking to others to give us a checklist and tell us what to do, we need to grow in understanding, gratitude, perseverance, and ability. That all adds up to applied wisdom.
Wisdom is not a switch we can flip. It’s a journey to undertake, one step at a time.
Convivial Circle is set up to be a flexible, adaptable support system for your own growth in ability, maturity, and sanctification as you live out your calling as a wife and mother.
What you’ll learn inside Convivial Circle
The courses inside Simply Convivial Continuing Education won’t give you secret knowledge or a magic pill to stay on top of your life and do all the things. Instead, they will walk you through addressing what’s actually causing your struggles and helping you address those through repentance and rejoicing – not as a once-and-done step, but as a continual process.
While addressing every element of our homemaking responsibilities and also our personal habits, each course also helps you make meaningful, visible progress in your home.
The courses are not superficial or quick-fix, but they also are not spiritualized and esoteric. Our lives are blended physicality and spirituality, and so any approach that will help us grow must also be both.
The following programs are available to all enrolled members of Convivial Circle:
- Homemaking 101 – Jumpstart your home management and organization approach so you can make purposeful progress in everyday real life.
- Simplified Organization: Organize Your Attitude – Change your thoughts and choose your feelings to create a positive, loving atmosphere in your home.
- Simplified Organization: Work Your Plan – Create a working planning system for clarity and reduced stress.
- Simplified Organization: Streamline Your Homemaking – Tackle family management with skill and grace for a welcoming home.
- Humble Habits – Build personal habits for growth and satisfaction.
- Sweep & Smile – Establish basic housekeeping routines to prevent chaos and keep your home reasonably clean.
- Restful Routines – Manage your time with a balanced approach to work and rest.
- Art of Homeschooling – Focus on relationships over checklists in your homeschooling journey.
- Simplified Pantry – Simplify kitchen and cooking routines for consistent meal prep.
- Personality Portfolio – Understand personality and its impact on home dynamics.
The direction & accountability homemakers need to make noticeable progress in their home management skills.
just $27.99/month
(or save with a quarterly or annual plan)
How you’ll learn inside Convivial Circle
Every course has lessons in written or audio form for learning in the way that works best for you. Each module also has an activity to help you apply the concepts to your situation.
Members receive weekly emails with encouragement, direction, and updates. We also have a private, not-on-Facebook chat app for connecting with hundreds of women who share insights, struggles, and successes.
Members can also receive a motivating morning text, and we host weekly and monthly live events to stay connected and engaged.
How do these programs teach me to be a better homemaker?
When you enroll in Convivial Circle, you will:
- Adapt any planner to manage life’s details
- Find balance in expectations and commitments
- Eliminate guilt and distraction
- Experience satisfaction from wise time management
- Build habits for consistency in housework, homeschooling, and personal life
- Be flexible without frustration due to strong priorities
Convivial Circle is where you’ll find both instruction & mentoring to be a homemaker who glorifies God.
Find homemaking help!
The direction & accountability homemakers need to make noticeable progress in their home management skills.
- Get gospel-focused advice and encouragement.
- Level up your plans and progress, one step at a time.
- Find accountability with likeminded women without any social media drama.
- Experience the homemaking mentoring you’ve always wanted.
- Learn to love being a homemaker!
The direction & accountability homemakers need to make noticeable progress in their home management skills.
Just $27.99/month
(or save with a quarterly or annual plan)
Related posts
Written by
