Followers, Traffic, and the good stuff!

I've been simply AMAZED that in the last 15 months I've had over 8,000 visitors to Catholic Christian Homeschooling. That's an average of 20 visitors per day.

Lately, thanks to programs like statcounter, I know that most of visitors have been coming from google, blogger, and the blog Mommy and Me. Thank-you ALL for being followers, visiting, and coming back again and again to Catholic Christian Homeschooling. Yesterday DH and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary.

Happy Meals Banned!

Well no they aren't really banned but Santa Clara County in CA wants to pass an ordinance that would prohibit restaurants from INCLUDING a toy in a high calorie meal. Under this ordinance ALL of McDonald's current Happy Meals choices (including those with apple dippers and milk) would no longer have a toy with the meal.




I think the pot is calling the kettle black! I believe this because USA Today reported last week that the group Mission Readiness is concern with what SCHOOL lunches (Lunch/Breakfast programs at public schools) are doing to our children. According the the USA Today report 30-50% of a child's daily calories are consumed AT school in a SCHOOL LUNCH!

Mission Readiness has PDF To Fat To Fight. It talks about wanting the junk food out of the SCHOOLS! It talks about wanting Congress to allow the US. department of agriculture to establish NEW nutrition guidelines that would remove HIGH-Calorie, LOW-Nutrition foods out of the SCHOOLS!

Besides health issues did you know that obesity is a national security threat?

The leading medical reason why so many young people are unqualified to serve: A fourth of adults in this age group — at least 9 million young men and women — are too heavy, according to military entry standards, the group says in its new report, Too Fat to Fight.

"When that many young adults can't fight because of their weight, it affects our national preparedness and national security," says retired rear admiral Jamie Barnett, a member of Mission: Readiness.

Look, I think it's stupid that a government wants to point the finger at McDonald, Burger King, Wendy's and all the rest when the meals they serve DAILY in  a school environment is just as BAD!! And I would argue that it's even worst then the fast food joints because it's DAILY!!! Fix the school lunches BEFORE you worry about what Ronald and the King are doing!

Has anyone seen Food Revolution? It's on Friday Nights on ABC. If you have missed it then you can watch them on Hulu.

Soccer Is Here!

Soccer season is here! Both Web-princess and Superstar are playing soccer. They are on the same team. The picture above of them playing was taken at practice last night. You may have noticed that Superstar is NOT wearing his AFOs. That's because the doctor told us NO AFOs for soccer.

Let me tell you this made me a little nervous seeing last night was the first running around he did WITHOUT his braces. However he did just fine!

Last week Web-princess celebrated her 8th birthday; It was a good birthday for her. Her friends came over, she had cake, what more could a little girl want! It was not a formal party, just a play date with her friends.

RE: Judy @ Benmakesten

I know many of you are followers of Judy @ Benmakesten or perhaps you follow many of her other sites like Homeschool Faith and Family Life. It's also possible that perhaps many of you are friends of her through THL.

Anyway, I'm sure that you may of noticed she is MIA! Well I can assure you that she's fine. Her computer just has a nasty virus and it is recovering! That is why she is MIA from the blogging, computer world.

I tried calling her on the phone today, but ended up with her answering machine. She DID return my call this evening, but I was out at the gym so I missed it. I'm hoping to touch base with her tomorrow over the phone.

She did leave me a voice message on my phone tonight and it basically said what I've wrote here: Everyone is doing well, it just her computer crashed due to a nasty virus. She lost everything and is hoping to be up and running again as soon as possible.

Hopefully I can actually talk with her tomorrow and get more details~

Pizza Hut Book-It for 2010-2011

Posting about Barnes and Nobles Summer Reading program earlier reminded me that enrollment for Pizza Hut Book-It 2010-2011 is NOW Open.

In addition I have also noticed that several of the bowling allies, for Kids Bowl Free, are now open for registration. There are still some that have not open up yet, So don't be too surprise if the bowling alley of your choice is still not open for registration.