by Ashley Larkin | Feb 10, 2017 | Faith, Five Minute Friday, Love, Mothering
Every pulse of my being desires to keep her safe. Draw her up close and not let go. Surround her with covers and the tenderness of my mama arms, stroking her tired head, rubbing her sore tummy in circles. I am still drunk on coziness, the wonder of stories read on...
by Ashley Larkin | Sep 30, 2016 | Five Minute Friday, Gratitude, Joy, Mothering
We are on the third (or maybe fourth) leg of our afternoon school pick-up, which means “Lala,” Clementine and I have been sitting in the minivan for a while now. Big sister “J” should arrive any moment with her middle school carpool. From our...
by Ashley Larkin | Mar 31, 2016 | Amusings, Childhood, Mothering
Hi friends, There’s so much I want to share with you about this last week, but for now a small story. Today, I scraped myself up from bed, ate something small that still made me nauseous and pulled together the best...
by Ashley Larkin | Aug 7, 2015 | Five Minute Friday, Grace, Gratitude, Mothering
“Come here,” I said, pulling you from the bed and onto the floor where I sat. You cried as I stroked your long bangs and wisps of hair from your forehead. “But I don’t want to be seven tomorrow,” you said. “I want to stay six....
by Ashley Larkin | Jul 27, 2015 | Grace, Gratitude, Mothering, Truth-telling
I read of longing and desire from bed, covered in the quilt I brought from home and a rightly heavy down comforter. The walls are yellow like sun, and I am sick. Not the worst sick I’ve been in my life, but sick that looks weak and tired in the eye, feels the cold...
by Ashley Larkin | Mar 30, 2015 | Faith, Family, Grace, Gratitude, Mothering, Perspective
I miss blogging and the freefall of ideas, the connecting with you here. I never thought these last months would be a period of so many long separations and breaks from this place, so much else needing tending. And they are good things, and there are a lot of them. I...
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