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My Big Sister is Cool {A Pumpkin & Parsnip Giveaway}

If you know anything about me, you know that I’m surrounded by incredible women.  Wicked cool incredible women.  Women who know how to make stupid look cool. It’s a gift. Between my female family members, friends and neighbors…I am one lucky duck, people. While all 4 of us Douglas girls gained a hefty strand of […]

Crafts and Activities, Designs, Family, Giveaway

Mother’s Day {Printable}

Mother’s day is fast approaching, Spring is in full force…and it’s Friday.  Which can only mean…it’s time for a springy, maternally-inspired printable. I considered little pictures of birds and twigs with this quote…“Mothers are all slightly insane” by J.D. Salinger. from The Catcher in the Rye, but didn’t feel it had quite the right ring […]

Motherhood, Printables, Quotes and Scriptures

5 Things You Should Know About Spanx

We attended our very first Policeman’s Ball a couple of weeks ago, and while the exquisite $14.60 thrift-store dress was a highlight of my night, what loomed beneath was not… 5 Things You Should Know About Spanx 1.     While you may anticipate spanx becoming your new best friend, it will not.  It can rather be […]

Complete nonsense, Keepin' it Real

Meal Planning {Printables}

I’ve had a few friends comment on the cute weekly meal plan I have framed on top of my fridge and my response is always the same…”yes!!  I plan to get those printables on the blog…soonish!”. And, wouldn’cha know it…today is officially “soonish”.  It’s only taken me 6 months to deliver. I realized that I […]

Daily Life, Designs, Food, Frugal Living, Printables

Because Parenting Isn’t For Sissies {Part 2}

{If you missed part 1?  Check it out right here} If every human being has a driving need for security, significance and strength – including the little ones hanging onto our ankles – then we as parents have to be intentional about seeking out opportunities to instill and cultivate these qualities in their young lives. […]

Faith, Family, Grace, Motherhood, The Kiddos

Brave Love {Printable}

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill Make no mistake…life takes bravery. Following your dreams takes bravery.  Being married, and staying married, takes boat loads of bravery. Sometimes just getting up in the morning takes bravery. And parenting? It takes bravery too. William Wallace […]

Designs, Faith, Love, Motherhood

Because Parenting Isn’t For Sissies {Part 1}

I’ve been waiting for the perfect occasion to use this photo I snapped at a mountain zoo in Colorado last summer.  I LOVE everything it represents…the detail it captures, and all the emotion it evokes. This little babe had been born just 6 days prior to our visit and it took everything in me to […]

Family, Grace, Motherhood, Photography

We Are A Family of Heroes {Printable}

My husband is our hero.  In many more ways than the obvious. There is no doubt, I’m blessed beyond belief to be married to a kick-butt guy who rocks my world on a daily basis, bakes ridiculously good bread and provides a near-constant flow of delicious hot beverages…but his profession most certainly complicates life a […]

Daily Life, Designs, Printables

Honey Whole Wheat Bread with Molasses

We’ve been making our own bread for a few years now, sans bread machine, and with all the different recipes we’ve tried and tweaked, this is – hands down – our favorite.  It has fast become our go-to sandwich bread. Now, it’s no beer bread, but it’s delish none the less {and it’s far more […]

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What Lies Within Us {Printable}

Ralph Waldo Emerson was a pretty smart dude… Now you can bring his wisdom home with this 8.5 x 11 printable (which can be cropped down to fit an 8 x 10 frame).  Just take your pick, click, download and print. For printable 1, click here …for 2, click here …for 3, click here …for […]

Designs, Printables, Quotes and Scriptures

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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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The stories we tell about ourselves often begin be The stories we tell about ourselves often begin
before we know we’re telling them...
in childhood, where identity is still forming
and belonging can feel uncertain.

This week, I sit down with my friend Tiana Hawver as she shares her story of adoption, trauma, and the ache of rejection that shaped how she saw herself for years.

This one is tender. Honest.
And deeply needed.

🎧 Episode 020 is live | Reconnecting the Dots
  Identity, Trauma, and the Ache of Belonging
Joy isn’t the opposite of sorrow. It’s the opposit Joy isn’t the opposite of sorrow.
It’s the opposite of fear.

We live between Friday and Sunday,
and most of life feels like Saturday.
Tension is not failure.
It’s formation.

If you’ve been chasing happiness
and feeling weary...
this episode might steady you.

🎧 019 | Cultivating Joy on the Journey
 [in the Middle of the Mess]

Listen wherever you stream podcasts.
One year ago today, I drove 90 mph to an emergency One year ago today,
I drove 90 mph to an emergency room,
wondering if I would walk into that room
as a worried wife…
or a widow.

Another valley of despair.
Another encounter with a good, faithful God.

My update from that week still holds:

"I never imagined my shaky thumbs would be typing words like stroke, NeuroTrauma ICU, or brain surgery in reference to my healthy, 44-year-old husband.
And yet…this is where we find ourselves.
We’ve been brought to our knees—again.
But, as we’ve come to understand…
our knees are a good place to be.
Nestled in the palm of God’s hand..."

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And today, we continue to stand amazed,
at God’s kindness to us,
and at the gift of our people:
our community, our family, our friends,
who have carried us in ways we will never be able to repay.

Looking at my handsome guy today,
strong, fully recovered, and back to work since October,
apart from the six-inch scar up the back of his head,
you’d never know a massive stroke almost took his life.

So we mark today with gratitude.
I hereby dub April 23rd:
Joe’s Stroke of Grace Day ✌

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“When you’re in over your head,
I’ll be there with you.
When you’re in rough waters,
you will not go down.
When you’re between a rock and a hard place,
it won’t be a dead end…”
:: Isaiah 43:2
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Happiness is a moving target. Joy is not. In toda Happiness is a moving target.
Joy is not.

In today’s episode, I share a story about a farmer
who trusted the wrong reference point,
and plowed his entire field crooked.
Maybe the reason we’re exhausted isn’t because we’re failing.
Maybe we’ve been fixing our eyes on something that keeps moving.

This conversation isn’t about faking joy.
It’s about cultivating it, in grief, in tension,
in the hidden places where roots grow.

🎧 Episode 019 | Cultivating Joy on the Journey
 [in the Middle of the Mess] is now live.

#OhGoodGriefPodcast #RootedJoy #FaithInTheHard #JoyOnTheJourney
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What if addiction isn’t the root, but the symptom? What if addiction isn’t the root,
but the symptom?

What if beneath the behavior
there’s pain that’s never been named?

This week’s conversation is about
truth, trauma, and the slow work of healing.

And the kind of redemption
only God can write.

🎧 Listen to 018 | Beauty Beyond the Breaking with Carol Boothroyd
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