The Editor's Desk - From Beneath the Clutter

Ok, ok, I'm back. Sorry about that big gap in newsletters. Things just piled up at the end of the school year. Stomach flu, a rather nasty cold and just to make things really interesting, I found out I'm pregnant.

Which explained the continuing exhaustion and nausea.

We're surprised and delighted. Timing could be better, but people say that about a lot of pregnancies. I'm getting more energetic again and if not getting rid of the nausea yet, coping with it better.

Why Manners Matter

"...the principle of civil reciprocity is a solid one, for which reason it is occasion for total, staggering dismay that it appears to be on its way out." Lynne Truss fumes in her wonderfully, hotheaded bestseller, Talk to the Hand #?*! The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay at Home and Bolt the Door.

Come read the rest at http://www.homewiththekids.com/newsletter/2008/070108.php

See you next week!

Stephanie