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  • Story of the Orchestra
    Story of the Orchestra
    With CD!
  • My Big Book of Catholic Bible Stories
    My Big Book of Catholic Bible Stories
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  • The Little Red Hen
    The Little Red Hen
    Hooray for a good work ethic! The little red hen asks but receives no help in her efforts to put bread on the table. Yet all who wouldn't help would like to eat. In a refreshingly old-fashioned triumph of moral consequences, they don't get to!
  • Noisy Nora
    Noisy Nora
    Poor Nora! The loveable mousette experiences all the pangs of the child-in-the- middle, caught between the demands of baby brother and bossiness of big sister. Catchy meter, playful illustrations make for a wonderfully satisfying mouse's tale. Baby-Preschool
  • A Chair for My Mother
    A Chair for My Mother
    A remarkably beautiful story told by a young girl whose mother is a waitress. Since they lost all their furniture in a fire, they've been saving mother’s tips in a jar – so they can buy a big comfortable chair for their whole family to enjoy – daughter, mother and grandmother. Life has its ups and downs, but there’s always lots of love. Ages 4-7
  • Caps for Sale
    Caps for Sale
    Be dramatic! Shake your fists! Stomp your feet! You and your toddler will have so much fun with this wonderful story, in which common sense prevails over temper tantrums! 3-7

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  • Character Sketches From the Pages of Scripture, Illustrated in the World of Nature
    Character Sketches From the Pages of Scripture, Illustrated in the World of Nature
    Institue in Basic Youth Conflicts

My life

***Doing the Blue Skies Happy Dance!***

Conservatives cowering in the closet - sheeesh!

Catholics - is it time for you to come home?

Ash Wednesday reflections

Barbara Curtis at Frederick County Right to Life 2/19

The deer at our door

DC Snow Apocalypse - gearing up for second blast

Be back soon

Missed the March for Life - please send pictures!

The most miserable day of the year?

Whose Christmas tree is still up?

Happy Birthday, MommyLife!

Maddy Curtis on American Idol

MommyLife hits 2 million mark

Elf Yourself card - with me!

Advice needed on buying used laptop

Christmas - focus on family

A very Curtis Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving - our traditions

Switching gears for Thanksgiving week

Eric the 1/2 troll

Summer's back for a day or two

Financial disaster and the great hereafter

Glenn Beck show - 9-12 Moms - welcome!

Headed for Glenn Beck tomorrow

When having less means having more

Glenn Beck 9-12 Mom - show segments

While troops die, Obama parties hearty, ignores Afghanistan

Glenn Beck's 9.12 Moms tonight, and the UN Circus in NYC - maybe you've had enough too!

Tomorrow: NYC, Fox Studios, Mary Baker, Glenn Beck

New to MommyLife? Welcome

Former Leftists? Tell your story.

The praying mantis on my window

Paglia on Obama's decline - today's headlines - busy day

Smithsonian Air and Space Museum - Curtis and Duquette

With the pirates off, Mom's full steam ahead

The story of mothers: Hello and Goodbye

Pictures from Boston

Family update

Christians and political activism: The Mission

Busy week - well, a couple weeks

Watching the bees and butterflies

Cleaning the refrigerator - and loving each moment

A visit from Becky Miller and family

Closed on Sunday

To Wanna in Waterford: idle gossip, small minds

Not as sick as yesterday - hopefully healthy tomorrow

Cold cure: lemon juice, garlic, cayenne

Dads, Who Needs Them?

Spammed a lot

Leaving for a while - be back tonight!

Do you like your name?

Family update: Zach's surgery today

Let your kids be your DJ

Zach on his motorcycle experience - and beyond

Just another Saturday - is it ever?

My birthday - unbelievably 61!

BenAnna countdown: 26 hours

BenAnna wedding countdown: 34.5 hours

BenAnna's wedding countdown: 44 hours - rehearsal dinner menu

Zach's getting a motorcycle

Curtis Update/Challenger Little League Jamboree 5/10

On my way to the beach!

Sick again - and so needing to pull myself together :(

Teaching children to serve with love

Not feeling well

Of dentists and teaching kids to drive

Ebay .15 insertion fee sale today 4/21

Maddy's Sweet Sixteen!

Winter/summer clothes switch - anyone there yet?

Tripp update 4/18

On my way home from Mt. Hermon

Ben's recital - now I'm off to California!

Morning chatter

Boys will be boys forever on Green Machines!

My history as told through laundry rooms

Montessori at home workshops Ashburn 3/10, 3/24

Hair gray, hooray!

Ben and Anna's wedding shower

Jonny and Maddy

Tripp update

Tripp update

Tripp's surgery today at 1:00

Should MommyLife ignore politics?

16 degrees this morning, 56 tomorrow

Reality check from Facebook

Purcellville Gazette - my 1/23 column

Purcellville Gazette - my 1/16 column

Maturing mom - love never stops growing

Be back soon

MommyLife Blogiversary - #4

Patsy Cline - Life's Railway to Heaven - Yukon Pass

Indie music - the Avett Brothers

MommyLife - Best Overall Pro-Life Blog

Father Michael Kelly - remembered

Barbara Curtis - Kirkwood MOPS - Springfield, VA 1/21

Matt's Birthday!

Where, oh where is OUR snow???

Your New Year Resolutions?

What's in your refrigerator?

Father Michael Kelly, RIP

Curtis family Christmas update

Diet prep

Family Update - especially Tripp

2009 Fat Flush update

Blogroll update and a tour of MommyLife

The Fat Flush Diet: Does it work? And anyone want to join me 1/2/09?

These days at our house - overflowing gratitude

Thanksgiving 2008 - our family portrait

Thanksgiving - our traditions

Curtis family reunion tonight - thanks to all for your kindness!

Tripp is home

Tripp coming home today to finish his recovery

Help is on the way

On my mind today

Tripp update

Tripp Update

Tripp in the hospital again - surgery tomorrow

Double take kind of morning

My life - ready for normal

my new granddaughter

Maddy: a winner no matter what

Our visit from Taiwan

Noonan, Palin, tears, homecomings, gratitude

Update on Tripp - and more

MommyLife: 3000+ entries

MommyLife readers - Happy Fall!

Please pray for Tripp - urgent

Down syndrome event last Saturday - thank you Numbers Thirteen Farm!

My new granddaughter - coming home soon!

Tripp's home, I'm keeping busy (health care rant)

My memories of Fairbanks, Alaska

Tripp's knee, new grandaughter, visit from Taiwan, other Curtis news

My life - a lot going on behind the scenes

McCain/Palin rally Fairfax 9/10 photos

My Millionth Visitor

Millionth update - almost there

Random pictures from the past two weeks

An upside to the economic downturn

Finding hope in the everyday

Home tonight - catching up on laundry, email, sleep

Hearing from daughters

Taking Sophia to college

Channeling Florence Nightingale - who, me?

Gmail shut down ??????

What is MommyLife about, anyway?

Moving update

Loudoun Extra interview - thanks, Rachel!

Still moving - happiness bigtime

Moving -

A father to the fatherless

Beyond family skeletons: redemption and freedom

Five things that might surprise you about me

Our financial collapse - and starting over

July 4th at our house - Maddy off to Walpole Island

Family skeletons - breaking free

Coming home from Camp Easter Seals

Let It Go - keeping a tender heart

Maddy confirmed as Catholic

Sophia graduated today!

My life - full speed ahead, but some CyberBumps

Where I've been

500 headaches/500 cures - book entries

500 headaches

Going gray - on my way!

Purcellville Gazette - home of my new column Family Matters

Real Life in Loudoun - tangling with tornados

Feed a cold? Starve a cold? What?

My birthday - unbelievably 60

My life in a nutshell

Barbara Curtis - Lovettsville Library Thursday May 15

Every Mother's a Working Mother

Sophia and Mom's Incredible Amazing Trip to New York

In New York for the weekend

Evangelical to Catholic #22 - Celebrating the Ascension

The fox in my life

Celebrating birthdays at our house yesterday

Proof that prayer works

Jennifer and me

Taking Daniel to Dr. Capone today

Jonny & Me: Our Amazing NYC adventure

Barbara and Jonny's amazing adventure

Jonny & Me: Counting down to NYC

My life - full speed ahead!

Easter at church and at home

Personality and Multiple Intelligences test: I'm ENTJ

Greetings from California

The Loudoun Times-Mirror has dropped my column

The Fat Flush Diet: how hard is it and did it work?

My WaPo copyright issue follow-up

Do I really need two blogs?

Evangelical to Catholic #20 - Catholics Come Home video

Feminism - a quiz and a little personal history

The Washington Post breaking copyright law?

My life - and diet update

Speaking in Redwood City, CA March 11

Dreams

Grace and peace to you this morning!

Evangelical to Catholic #19 - Sola Scriptura

Home from Seattle

The fox in my life

My broken wrist revisited

What a wonderful world - no matter what's broken

Evangelical to Catholic: my journey #18

as my life comes to a screeching halt

Loudoun County Public Schools closed

Here I am, just a little broken but rarin' to go

Evangelical to Catholic: my journey #17

Evangelical to Catholic: my journey #16

Moms: finding emotional freedom

Evangelical to Catholic: my journey #15

March for Life 2008 - photo journal

Jonny and me

Keeping kids warm - inside and out

Deadlines, news, and what's ahead

Life at our house

Evangelical to Catholic: my journey #14 - the larger trend toward spiritual tradition

My life - quick and random thoughts

Evangelical to Catholic: my journey #13

Evangelical to Catholic: my journey #12

Evangelical to Catholic: my journey #11

On my way home from Boston

Teddy Bear Tea yesterday at the Ritz Carlton

Evangelical to Catholic: my journey #10

Evangelical to Catholic: my journey #9

Evangelical to Catholic: my journey #8

Thanksgiving at our house

Evangelical to Catholic: my journey #6

Evangelical to Catholic: my journey #5

Portrait of our marriage

Evangelical to Catholic: my journey #3 - Barbara goes to Mass

Evangelical to Catholic: my journey #2

More to come - eventually

Evangelical to Catholic: my journey #1

What Not to Wear and a couple other TV favorites

Mommy, Teach Me! at Columbus, Georgia MOPS 11/13

Special education in Loudoun - one battle won

Big blogging day tomorrow

Busy day, but will get back with more

What does it mean to be pro-life?

Today's mini update

Do mothers of big families and/or kids with special needs face more judgment?

Be back soon

Dashing in, unpacking, and dashing out again tomorrow