My friend in Alaska's kids sent our kids some letters and I had to realize how lacking my kids' "handwriting neatness skills" are .  I hope it is not too late to improve their handwriting, but I am really going to work on it for the rest of the school year. Unfortunately, I accepted papers with barely legible handwriting from my kids, and was just glad that they did something.  Not Anymore!!!!!!!

From now on I hereby declare that if their papers are not neat, then they will not be acceptable and will have to be done over.!!!!!!!!   How's that.   Now I feel better............