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Paisley & Sugar

Paisley & Sugar

Oh yes…there’s more! While I realize I don’t write an actual foodie blog, there is just no denying that I’ve been bitten by the baking bug lately. I just can’t seem to get enough of making sugar pretty and colorful. So I’m dragging you along with me for the ride {good thing photos are calorie free, eh?”} Next sugar cookie… Read More

Cute Stuff, Designs, Food, Photography

Oh, Holy Mother of Pearl…it’s SWEET!

You’d never know I gave up sugar for New Year’s…for here, my friends, is a whole heck of a lot of sugar-infused goodness. I teased this baby on facebook a while back {you know, way back in 2011} and totally forgot to share the recipe as promised.  Forgive me.  Sugar coma, what? Here’s the basic cheesecake recipe I follow –… Read More

Crafts and Activities, Cute Stuff, Family, Food

Crumbling the Silence {with Cookies}

We’re having a grand ol’ time here in the McMilli-vanilli home.  I have no idea where that came from.  You’ll have to pardon me, I’m heavily sleep deprived {sick kids, design deadlines, cookies to decorate, you know…the usual} and mildly medicated {it’s that time…and my uterus hates me}.  And apparently my TMI filter is broken. {sigh} I wanted to take… Read More

Cute Stuff, Family, Food, Home, Photography

It’s {almost} Boot Season

And it would appear that I am not the only one in this house who is excited to don them…

Complete nonsense, Cute Stuff, The Kiddos

Oh, How He Loves!

If you know anything about me, you’ll know how easily my inner-child is delighted.  It’s rather ridiculous, actually. I don’t think she gets out much, personally. Remember the time God scribbled a heart of clouds in the sky for my wee lass.  Woah mama. Well, He did it again…{while this photo does it little justice…this blueberry was heart shaped!} …and… Read More

Cute Stuff, Daily Life, Faith

The {Rainbow} Cake

We celebrated our little loves this weekend.  Bean turned 4 a couple of weeks ago, and Bug turns 2 in a couple of weeks.  We’re still cheap they’re still young enough to combine birthday parties. It was delightful! And the cake.  Oh! the cake. My big sister is a cake-bakin’-makin’-decoratin’ guru.  So being the brilliant mama that I am…naturally I… Read More

Cute Stuff, The Kiddos

My Day with Moppitt

Meet *Moppit.  She’s the 5 day old {teeny weeny} baby bunny that spent her final 30 hours – or most of it – nestled in my less-than-ample cleavage.  I enjoyed every minute we were able to care for this sweet little baby. We discovered Moppitt and her two siblings when Marley dug up their nest last Saturday.  They were probably… Read More

Cute Stuff, Garden

{Homemade} Bubble Tea

If you know me at all well, you’ll know I love tea.  No, let me rephrase that.  I adore tea. Make that: hot, black {British blend}, milky tea.  An entire pot of it! I also happen to be quite partial to chai and earl gray. Yes, indeed…tea + me = one happy girl! I’m {only mildly} embarrassed to admit that… Read More

Cute Stuff, Food

A Very Special Sunday

Celebrate the story of Easter through the eyes of a child…

Cute Stuff, Faith

{Drooling}

I am ever-so-slightly, just a wee-little-bit, experiencing some mild “baby bug” symptoms. Okay, so I would be lying if I said my uterus didn’t cramp just a tad when I look at these beautiful baby blues. She’s completely and utterly perfectly delicious in every way.   {the fact that one of my best friends is freshly preggo isn’t helping one… Read More

Cute Stuff

It’s A {Frog} Wrap

The lovely {brilliant, creative, beautiful} momma behind Second Nature Baby Wraps {who just happens to be one of my all time favorite people} knocked my socks off when she custom created a wrap for me to “wear” my son after he was born.  {It’s an absolute life-saver when you have a toddler to chase} While still in utero, my sweet… Read More

Cute Stuff, The Kiddos

The Only Thing Better Than Baby Feet…

Is baby feet in teeny, tiny little crocheted Mary Janes! Just look at these fabulous fuzzy things…   I’m completely and utterly in love. Okay, honey, I think I’m ready to have another baby.  But, then again…if it’s a boy, the poor thing’s in for a tough time.  So maybe not. I’ll just get some to stuff with potpourri and… Read More

Cute Stuff

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Hello there! I'm Joy. Speaker, designer, author & coach, and creator of the #weROARproject. Welcome to Simply Bloom Co., where passion & purpose collide.

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May you remember that God is not only the God of d May you remember that God is not only
the God of destinations, but of detours.

When life takes you somewhere you never intended to go,
may you recognize that you have not been forgotten.

May you have eyes to see the people in front of you,
hands willing to gather the sticks,
courage to shake off the snakes,
a heart willing to welcome and be welcomed,
and faith to believe that even here,
especially here, God is at work.
What if the place you keep calling a detour is act What if the place you keep calling a detour is actually part of the story?

Paul was headed to Rome. Instead, he ended up shipwrecked on Malta.
It wasn't the destination. But it mattered.

A reminder for all of us: don't waste the waiting,
the detour, or the place you didn't choose.

🎙️ 042 | Make Malta Matter | Finding Purpose in Divine Detours
  The latest Oh, Good Grief Podcast episode is out now.

#OhGoodGriefPodcast #MakeMaltaMatter #SimplyBloomCo
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What if the years you thought were wasted… weren't What if the years you thought were wasted…
weren't wasted at all?

In Part 2 of my conversation with Leah Harvey,
we go deeper into what it means to trust
God when the outcome is still unknown.

Leah has spent years carrying the ache of infertility,
and she doesn't offer a tidy answer or a spiritual shortcut.

Instead, she talks about restoration.
About eternity.
About choosing Jesus over her preference.
About looking for treasure in the middle of the story.

And about the surprising realization that there
may not have been wasted years after all,
because God was present in every one of them.

He is.
Even here.
Even now.

🎧 Part Two with Leah Harvey is live now.

#OhGoodGriefPodcast #StruggleWell #StayRooted #SojournTogether
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What if trusting that God is good doesn't mean bel What if trusting that God is good doesn't mean
believing He will give us everything we ask for?

That's one of the questions my friend Leah Harvey
and I wrestle with in this week's episode.

Leah and her hubby, Jake, have walked through years
of infertility and the kind of unanswered prayer that
doesn't just hurt once—it asks you to keep
trusting God over and over again.

We talk about grief, surrender, the questions we sometimes feel afraid to ask, and what happens when we stop trying to put tidy answers over messy pain.

This is a tender conversation about choosing Jesus over our preferences, embracing the mystery of God, and learning to believe that His goodness doesn't depend on whether He gives us the thing we're asking for.

Part One of my conversation with Leah Harvey is live now
🎧  040 | The Goodness of God in the Waiting

#OhGoodGriefPodcast #StruggleWell #StayRooted #SojournTogether
Before the world told you who you needed to become Before the world told you who you needed to become...
Before fear taught you how to survive...
Before shame convinced you to hide...
God looked at you and called you His own.

Not because you had healed.
Not because you had figured yourself out.
Not because you had become your best self.
Simply because you were His.

You are still becoming.
And you are already loved.

Keep coming home.

#OhGoodGriefPodcast #SimplyBloomCo
What if the goal isn't to become a different type, What if the goal isn't to become a different type,
but to become more fully yourself?

We've spent the last several weeks exploring the Enneagram:
our gifts, wounds, coping strategies, and the stories we
learned to believe in order to survive.

Now it's time to come home.

Episode 039 closes this Summer Series by asking
what happens when self-awareness becomes surrender.

The Enneagram can help us understand our patterns.
But it was never meant to become our identity.

You are not your number.
You are not your trauma.
You are not your coping strategy.

You are a beloved child of God.

🎧 Oh, Good Grief — Episode 039 is available now.
Sitting on the front porch with a cup of coffee, m Sitting on the front porch with a cup of coffee, my Bible and a book of maps in my lap, and the sun on my face, has me thinking about how strange and beautiful life can be.

It’s no small honor to be given the opportunity to preach at our church from time to time. Had you told the broken, shoplifting, lying, giving-her-body-away-for-free teenage girl I once was that one day she’d stand in a pulpit and talk to people about God’s goodness and grace, I would have laughed at you.

But maybe that’s exactly why God delights in using the messy, the unlikely, the misfits. Because these are the stories that make His redemption impossible to miss.

One of my favorite lines from The Chosen, spoken by Mary Magdalene, sums it up perfectly: “I was one way, and now I am completely different. And the thing that happened in between was Him.”

That’s my story, too.
And if I were to hazard a guess, it's yours as well.

It’s one of my greatest joys to dig into God’s Word, share what He’s laid on my heart, offer some encouragement and conviction, confess the uncomfortable things, and ultimately point people back to Jesus.

Because there’s no denying the extraordinary power of redemption when you’ve lived it yourself.
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