by Ashley Larkin | Oct 30, 2014 | Childhood, Faith, Perspective, Through the eyes of my children
{And the winner of “Playdates with God: Having a Childlike Faith in a Grown-Up World” is…LORI HARRIS!} Today my daughter, “Sici” (nickname pronounced “See-See”) writes about what it means for her to preserve her childlike...
by Ashley Larkin | Jan 22, 2014 | Childhood, Grace, Mothering, One Word: Seek, Perspective, Redemption, Surrender
Yesterday, when I dropped J off at school for her field trip — to the play, Charlotte’s Web — I realized she was without a scarf or gloves. I unwound my scarf from my neck and wound it round hers, I pulled my gloves out of my pocket and watched as...
by Ashley Larkin | Jul 13, 2013 | Childhood, Gratitude, Mothering, Perspective, Through the eyes of my children
Children aren’t looking for life to be just so to stop and see beauty. It’s in the midst. In the blanket fort a mish-mashed mess, in collected litter treasures, in the living room dust particles dancing like fairies upon the sun’s backlight. For me,...
by Ashley Larkin | Jun 21, 2012 | Childhood, Love, Mothering, Through the eyes of my children
We pass over the camera, and we get to see what they see. This is love through the eyes of my girls. Today, as you push through the stuff of the world — the relating, the doing, the questioning and the all of it that makes you tired just to think — take a...
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