Hello Everyone and Happy Holidays! Today I am bringing you some fun winter break ideas. These are tried and true fun, I do these activities regularly to have fun with my family and keep the fun going even during a pandemic. I am sure that you will enjoy these too! Without further ado, here are my pandemic winter break ideas!

• Movie Night With Extra Popcorn

This is an idea that I’m sure you will absolutely love!  There is something that is just so magical about snuggling up in your blankets on a dark winter night with your favorite Christmas movie and a warm bag of homemade buttery popcorn. This is the perfect pandemic winter break idea for if you’re home alone or staying with family. People of all ages and interests will love you for putting this activity together! Trust me

• Reading Night  With Delicious Hot Chocolate

Ok, ok, I know that many people don’t like reading but…I am a serious bookworm/ reading fanatic, so this had to make the list. There are so many books just waiting for you to pick them up and begin reading. I recommend surfing the web for holiday novels and cozy reads guaranteed to take holiday spirit through the roof! If you aren’t a fan of reading I recommend trying audiobooks, I haven’t met a person that doesn’t like audiobooks even a little bit. And if all else fails, just get a warm cup of hot chocolate and snuggle up in bed!

• Warm Cookies and Coloring Pages

This pandemic winter break idea practically speaks for itself. Coloring is lots of fun and it is an amazing stress reliever. People of all ages love coloring whether they are willing to admit it or not, lol. Just give this a try, you’ll like it!

• Funny Storytime With Friends and Family 

The holidays are times to bring friends and family closer to share the joy of Christmas. It’s surprisingly fun to call some friends and family with facetime, zoom, or other video conferencing software to catch up and laugh together at funny occurrences or inside jokes. Try this with your parents, aunts/uncles, cousins, siblings, or close friends and see what happens. Don’t take my word for it, experience the fun for yourself!

• Bake Bake Bake!

It’s time to make some cookies, cakes, tarts, and brownies! Who doesn’t love making a sweet dessert that reminds them of the holidays and tastes delicious when dunked in hot chocolate? Let little ones do simple tasks like mixing and using child-safe cookie cutters, older ones can choose the recipes and personalize them as they see fit. This will be loads of fun! (look out for a holiday recipe guide coming up!)

• Board Games or Online Games

A good old game night never hurt anyone! If you are quarantining with family, play board games or fun family favorites! You can also really enjoy having a zoom party and screen sharing an online game with your favorite people. Let me know how it goes!

• Decorate The House

Last but not least, you should really decorate your house with the people that are close to you. This is awesome in person with your family or virtually with friends. Just fire up your Christmas music and your video-conferencing app to get started. You’ll love this, that’s a Lily promise!

Thank you so much for reading this post! I’m sure that you’ll love these pandemic winter break ideas and enjoy spending time with your friends and family. I’m wishing you a very merry Christmas and holiday season! Remember to stay home and stay safe!  Until next week…….

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If any of you are vegan, vegetarian, or follow a plant-based lifestyle; you can easily change some of the recipes below and check out the following YouTubers for great food ideas.

Vegan Richa: https://www.youtube.com/c/VeganRichaRecipes/playlists click HERE

Pick Up Limes: https://www.youtube.com/c/PickUpLimes/videos click HERE

Liv B:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtuwIdM0Zx7xCiZSa_clRzw/videos click HERE

If you are not vegan, please feel free to edit the following recipes with animal products instead of substitutes if you so desire.

To make the recipes healthier, be mindful of the amount of sugar, oil, and other fats that you include. Don’t be afraid to use less sugar, oil, or butter than the recipe calls for. Also, don’t shy away from quick and healthy meals like oatmeal, grits, cream of wheat, cornmeal, etc. Lastly, remember that the last recipe on this page, the mug recipe, is not very healthy; so don’t eat it often. If you do eat it often, please try to find healthier recipes and use wholesome ingredients such as fruits, vegetables, and nuts. Quick, easy, and healthy breakfast/lunch ideas.

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor or nutritionist.

Recipes:

Avocado Toast: need bread, avocado, and egg (optional), hot sauce (optional)

• Toast the bread
• Spread the avocado on the toast
• place the cooked egg on the toast
• drizzle on the hot sauce
• done!

Pancakes: these are vegan, but you can always use animal products instead

Click HERE for the recipe

Biscuits with eggs, bacon, or just jam: the biscuits are vegan, all animal products such as eggs and bacon are optional.

Click HERE for the recipe

• you can add the bacon and eggs after you cook the biscuits
• feel free to just use jam or peanut butter

Pizza: This is vegan pizza dough,  you can add your own toppings and make this a breakfast, lunch, or dinner pizza

Click HERE for the recipe

• you add the toppings directly on top of the dough and then place it in the oven to cook for the suggested amount of time.
• pro tip: make pizza dough ahead of time for easy meal preparation

One-Bowl Waffles: these are vegan, works perfectly with animal products too. You need a waffle iron for this recipe. Feel free to make these into pancakes instead.

Click HERE for the recipe

• top with fresh fruits
• top with butter, jam, peanut butter, syrup, or whatever you like!
• enjoy!

Breakfast Burrito: this can also be a lunch burrito. You need tortilla bread, vegetables, cheese, and whatever else you want.

• pro tip: all you really need is a tortilla! Put whatever you like into it!
• warm up the tortilla bread
• cook the vegetables or leave them raw

place them on the warm tortilla bread

• place cheese on the tortilla
• roll the tortilla burrito-style
• enjoy!

Grilled Cheese Sandwich Or Cheese Quesadilla: you need sandwich bread or tortilla bread, and cheese

• pro tip: if you don’t have time to put this on the stove, just place it in the microwave.
• pro tip: add spices, vegetables, or meat to make the flavor pop!
• pro tip: you can use vegan cheese or hummus instead!
• warm stove or griddle
• place tortilla or sandwich bread on pan or griddle
• place cheese on bread
• let it melt
• add extra things (optional)
• enjoy!

Mug Cake: this can be a meal or simply a very quick dessert!

Click HERE for several recipes.

• remember to always be safe and never put metal in the microwave!
• don’t stand in front of the microwave, too much radiation!

I hope that you try these quick, easy, and healthy breakfast/lunch ideas! This should make work and school from home a little less stressful. You can make many of these recipes ahead of time, and place them in the fridge for later use. Please remember to come to my upcoming webinars! I would love to see you there and answer your questions in person! View the events HERE. 

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• tips to avoid boredom eating at home
• Tips for dealing with isolation from peers during the COVID-19 pandemic

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During the final semester of school last year and during summer break, I learned a few valuable things about how to successfully be productive at home. At first, I made all of the mistakes possible. At the time, I didn’t appreciate it, but now I can tell all of you what to avoid, so for that I am very grateful! In the first few days of online school, I did my school work in bed frequently. I ended up feeling sluggish and unproductive all day. What I didn’t know was that location matters. I also learned that having a device nearby that is constantly pinging with texts from friends and family is an immense distraction! I learned so many things that I can’t explain them all to you in a normal blog post length, so I highly recommend that you tune in to my webinar and get all of my productivity tips there. For this blog post, I will give you a list that will be further explained in my webinar. Ok, ok, enough webinar promotion! I am just really, really, excited. Enough procrastination, here is the list.

Work/School From Home Productivity Tips

1. Don’t do your homework or office work in bed!
2. Make an area that is strictly for school and work, nothing else!
3. Move all unnecessary devices from the work area, yes, phones and other tech. included!
4. Only text and call friends after work or school, that means no face timing in class!
5. Take breaks! If you can, go outside in between classes or calls!
6. Wear blue light glasses, if you don’t you may suffer from headaches, eye twitching, and dizziness!
7. Drink water regularly and stay hydrated, aim for eight glasses a day!
8. Treat yourself and take brain breaks, yoga; walks; and talking with friends are great ideas!
9. Set a time to be a school or work every day, and stick to it!
10. Eat healthy snacks, do not eat chips/crisps, and cookies/biscuits every day!
11. Set a time to have lunch every day, it is important to fuel your body and stick to a schedule!

Thank you so much for reading this post! I hope that this helps and that you attend my webinar on September 3rd. I can’t wait to see you there! Look out for the following posts in the back to school series.

Back to school series upcoming posts

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• tips for staying fit while at home
• tips to avoid boredom eating at home
• Tips for dealing with isolation from peers during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Easy Canned Food Meal Ideas

Make sure that you visit these websites and see if any of these recipes work for you. Lately, I have become a whiz at cooking with canned beans. What have you become good at cooking with? Feel free to comment down below.

• 101 simple canned food meal ideas for a busy schedule
• Quick dinner dishes that you can make out of cans
• 61 easy recipes to make with canned foods
• 10 easy dinners made with canned goods from the pantry
• canned food recipes
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• 30 easy canned food recipes
• easy canned food recipes

Thank you everyone for reading my post. I really hope that this helps you and makes your life a little bit easier. If you are feeling alone, please know that you are not alone. We are all going to get through this together. I am praying for a change and for the healing of the world. If you need access to some resources for Covid-19 please click HERE.  Also, feel free to visit the Covid-19 category on this blog. I highly recommend the yoga routines to relieve stress.

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Hello Everyone! Today I have some very exciting news. Today is the “Let Them Hear Your Voice” Live Life The Girl Way YouTube channel launch! I am creating the YouTube channel to increase and support the message of Live Life The Girl Way. The YouTube channel will feature extra content related to blog posts, interviews, travel, and motivational speaking. The Live Life The Girl Way channel is another way to inspire a wider audience of people, and to connect with all of you! Every video will be an inspiring message that will help and encourage you to be your best self. The channel will also help you to take more active strides towards reaching your goals and dreams. I believe that the Live Life The Girl Way YouTube channel along with the Live Life The Girl Way blog will be an effective way to inspire all of you and help you to go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

“Let Them Hear Your Voice” Motivational Speech YouTube Video

“Let Them Hear Your Voice” Motivational Speech Podcast Episode

I would like all of you to know that I am supremely grateful for all of your support throughout my journey to inspire and encourage girls to be confident in their abilities. All of you inspire me every day to be my best self, to be kind to others, to achieve my dreams, and to write this blog to inspire others. I hope that the Live Life The Girl Way channel will aid you in your efforts to achieve your goals and dreams. I would be honored to have your support as I start this new chapter in the journey and mission of Live Life The Girl Way.  Until next time, remember that if you believe in your ability to succeed, you will achieve all of your goals and dreams.

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These past two years have been some of the best years of my life because of all of you! Thank you for all of the support that you have given me from the very beginning. Thank you for being so supportive of my mission to empower and encourage girls to be their best selves. Without your constant support and feedback Live Life The Girl might not be where it is today!

Today we are celebrating two years, technically two and a half years, of Live Life The Girl Way. We are not just celebrating that two years have passed, we are also celebrating the difference that you have helped Live Life The Girl Way to make on the world. Live Life The Girl has reached girls in almost every single country in the world! Girls I want to encourage you today to never give up on yourself and your dreams. You are strong, capable, beautiful, and intelligent! Once you believe in yourself the sky is the limit! (unless you want to be an Astronaut, haha)

Even though 2020 has been off to a rocky start, we can still work hard to achieve our goals and dreams. Don’t let the hurdles in life become stumbling blocks. Jump over them with drive and determination because you know what you can achieve! There are no goals too big and no dreams too small. I believe in you and now it is time for you to believe in yourself. Smile at your reflection in the mirror and appreciate yourself! Inspire and encourage others to do good things at every chance.

Always remember that you don’t get farther in life by holding others back, we do our best when we work together. United we are strong, divided we crumble. Girls, it is time for us to show the world what we are made of. Strength, beauty, intelligence, determination, potential, innovation, and so much more! Our futures depend on us and our choices, let’s make them bright.

Today I want to give you a “time-lapse” of Live Life The Girl Way. I will give you some links to posts from previous years. Not all of the posts will be available because unfortunately, some were lost when the Live Life The Girl Way website crashed for a few months. I will give you all of the post links that I possibly can. Just remember that when you click on the categories to see more posts you will have to scroll to the bottom of the page and keep hitting the “older posts” button until you have seen every post. Without further ado, here are the links below. Enjoy!

2018

                          http://livelifethegirlway.com/welcome/?s=2018 or click HERE

2019

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2020

                       http://livelifethegirlway.com/welcome/?s=2020 or click HERE

Thank you everyone for reading my post and celebrating two years of Live Life The Girl Way with me! I hope that those throwback posts have been as nostalgic for you as they are for me. I really enjoy seeing how I have grown as a blogger in these past few years. As always I love all of you and see you soon!

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Hello everyone! During this time we are all dealing with quite a bit of stress and tension. This post will give you some yoga routines to relieve stress. I recommend doing these routines when you feel overwhelmed, restless, anxious, or stressed. Without further ado, let’s get into the post!

Yoga Routines To Relieve Stress

• HERE is a twenty-minute full-body stretch routine that will help you to release tension in all areas of your body (by MadFit)
• HERE is the link to a fifteen-minute morning yoga routine that will help you to start your day off well (by SarahBethYoga)
• HERE is a link to a thirty-minute full-body yoga flow for increased flexibility and strength
• HERE is the link to a ten-minute yoga flow for beginners
• HERE is a fifteen-minute yoga flow that is intense enough to serve as your daily workout
• HERE is a twenty-minute full-body power yoga workout to strengthen and tone your body

During this quarantine, I have had the time to realize how important listening to your body is. From eating healthily to exercising, every action counts. These yoga routines will help you to give your body the time that it needs to relax. When you are doing these exercises, you will be focusing on being peaceful and calm, not what is going on in the world. I know that sometimes when things aren’t going as planned, we feel like we should abandon our health and fitness goals. That is not the case at all! We should always do our best to be our best selves inside and out. I encourage all of you to try these workout routines this week when you are feeling stressed or anxious, and I promise that I will try them too. See you soon!

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I am a Sophomore in high school. That means that I need to start preparing for the SATs as soon as possible. I wanted to find a quick and easy way to prepare for acing the SATs. The biggest surprise to me was that I could find resources that would help me for free. My first and favorite resource was Khan Academy. Khan Academy is a free resource that helps students of all levels with all kinds of classes. It can help you with everything that you need academically from middle school to university. Khan Academy has a specialized learning plan that helps you to combat your weaknesses. In other words, Khan Academy is your completely free SAT tutor.

There are so many free resources that can help you with your quest to ace the SATs. I will give you a link that combines and links all of the sources that will help you HERE.  I highly suggest that you check these out and see what works best for you. As always, I am rooting for your success in acing the SATs and all of your future positive endeavors! I know that if you put your mind to it, and you believe in your ability to succeed, you will come out on top. You just have to believe in yourself.

Test day can seem a little bit intimidating. I know that if you prepare well and believe in yourself, you will be surprised at your success. On test day, please remember to stay calm. The night before, you should get plenty of sleep. In the morning you should eat a healthy breakfast and pack healthy snacks for the day. I will link a thorough guide to getting you ready for the test HERE.  Thank you so much for reading this post! I wish you luck in all of your future tests and endeavors. Be confident and be your best self one hundred percent of the time.

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 Templates To Create Your Own Cards

Templates are so helpful when it comes to showing your Mom that you care. These templates will help you to design the outside of your cards while you customize the insides. Don’t Worry, they are easy to use and free!

• Mother’s Day Cards

Mother’s Day “Coupon” Cards Templates

Coupon cards are wonderful ways to let Mom know that she is appreciated. Each coupon gives Mom a chance to rest or spend time with you! These are fully customizable and, of course, free! Don’t take my word for it though, click the link below.

• Mother’s Day “Coupon” Cards

“Why I Love You Cards” (Perfect for the little ones!)

These “Why I Love You” Cards are templates that help you and the little ones with telling Mom some of your special memories with her. These will be forever keepsakes for your Mom. There is no doubt that she will appreciate them year after year!

• “Why I Love You” Cards

DIY Paper Flowers

Get in touch with your artistic side with these DIY paper flowers. These Mother’s Day crafts are beautiful!  Make a great spread for pictures during Mother’s Day breakfast. Mom will be impressed and you’ll be surprised at your skill!

• DIY Paper Flowers

Pictures Of My Card Designs (Be Inspired!)

Thank you so much for reading this post! Please remember that Mother’s Day is all about showing Mom that you care. She will appreciate whatever you do to pamper her. Spread Love, Cheer, and Positivity! See you next week!

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