Heh, yeah, it's a LOT of cutting. ;) As for level two... you may want to invest in a rotary cutter. We haven't gotten to it yet (we just finished lesson 18 in level 1), but it was on sale a while back, so I got it. It has 42 each phonogram and sound cards, 5 key cards, 230 word cards, and a few other sheets. I dread cutting out them all.

I have been having a hard time with handwriting, myself. It doesn't help that I always had awful handwriting (still do!) and so don't can't exactly uphold high penmanship standards.

I would be reading about your homeschooling wherever you blogged it, so it's simpler to have it here. Obviously, I"m not keeping up mine, either. ;)