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Super-Simple, Kid-Friendly Smoothies

Smoothies are popular in our house, even with kids who claim to not like many fruits, or yogurt. 

When you are introducing your kids to smoothies, make sure the ingredients are to their liking. If they love chocolate, make a chocolate flavored smoothie with a dash of fruit. Make the idea of smoothies exciting, children love to be involved in the process. Let them make smoothies with fruits of their choice, on the condition that they will drink it. Guide them to make sure that the smoothie they make is edible. Lol. 

You are lucky if your child likes eating vegetables. Otherwise, you can disguise the tastes of vegetables with fruits or yogurt. For example, if you want to add broccoli or spinach to the smoothie, you can add a strawberry, banana, or grapefruit to give it a sweet and tangy flavor. To make smoothies fun during summer, you can make Popsicles and add them into the smoothie.  

The good news is that smoothies are extremely flexible. If your house doesn’t drink cow’s milk, you can always substitute with almond, coconut, rice or soy milk. You can use the yogurt of your choice and honey or agave are both great natural sweeteners. 

The kids can choose the flavor of the juice – orange, apple, cranberry or even coconut water. 

Here are a couple of our favorite super simple kid-friendly smoothies 
Strawberry Banana Smoothie

Makes one serving

Ingredients:

1/2 banana

1/2 cup plain yogurt

1 cup frozen strawberries

1/4 cup orange juice

Drizzle of honey or agave 

Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend until combined and serve.

Mango Orange Smoothie

Makes one serving

Ingredients:

1 mango, cubed (or one cup frozen mango)

1/4 cup orange juice

1/2 cup vanilla yogurt

1/2 tablespoon honey or agave 

Combine together and serve! 

Last but not least is favorite 

Blueberry Bliss Smoothie

Makes one serving

Ingredients:

1/2 cup vanilla yogurt

1/2 cup coconut milk

1 cup frozen blueberries

2 teaspoons honey

Combine and serve! 

Smoothies for kids are healthy and easy to make and can be had any time of the day. You can serve them during breakfast or as evening snacks. The popularity of smoothies has encouraged businesses to come up with ready-to-go smoothies in different flavors. Dr. Smoothie, Suja, Happy Planet, Happy Monkey, and Innocent Smoothie For Kids are among the most popular smoothie brands in the market today. While it is fine to pick one of these packs, homemade smoothies from fresh fruits and vegetables turn out to be the best in the long run. 

Fruity smoothies are a fun and healthy way to start your child’s day! It’s a power breakfast. The best part? They’re super-easy to create. 

love, #krishna 

Homemade Honey Face Mask 

Overnight masks- commonly referred to as sleeping packs in Seoul or sleep masks- are a Korean-beauty gem. #seoul #love 

Sleep masks are essentially just lightweight, yet incredibly potent, night “creams” that you slather on your face minutes before bed as the last step of your skin-care routine.  

Our homemade DIY hydrators and soothers into your skin barrier—all of which translates to a glowier-faced you when you wake up. 

Honey has antioxidants that benefit the body in many ways and can help moisturize and heal the skin. When used with tomato, it helps to make your skin appear brighter and flawless.

You will need : 

Raw Honey

Tomato

Method – DIY Mash a tomato and add a tbsp of honey to it. Use the mixture to reduce dark spots, brown spots, pigmentation and help to regenerate skin cells while you sleep. Apply mixture and leave on overnight. Rinse off in the morning. 

Amazing all natural homemade face masks with 2 ingredients.


love, #krishna 

The Pop Game, My Partner Knows Best: Lifetime

More tv please.. 

Lifetime is getting their game on.  TV series: My Partner Knows Best. Hosted by Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen. 

Who knows how much of what we saw on set today will be cut, but hopefully they don’t cut any of the Island View scenes. Sorry you are going to have to wait to see what happens when it appears on tv. 

Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen are hosting a game show called My Partner Knows Best. A new relationship comedy game show where married couples face off in a series of hilarious challenges based on real-life relationship obstacles.

The show, which will air for ten episodes on the Lifetime network announced Biggs and Mollen are not only the hosts, but are listed among the producers as well. 
Four couples will compete each week, and one will walk away with the money and be able to say My Partner Knows Best!  The show doesn’t yet have an air date, but we will be looking forward. 
We wish you a grand congratulations for all of the new and wonderful creations you are sharing with the world. 

love, #krishna 

Lotus Oil: Yogi Beauty by Vinies Ayurveda 


Bringing you the majesty of nature, Ayurvedic herbal extracts and Aromatherapy oils infuse the skin and hair with healthy vibrancy and energy from their life-giving nutrients. Yogi carefully chooses herbs at the optimal time of year according to their purpose enhancing these special blends of rare botanicals and high-potency Aroma Therapy oils deliver beautiful, healthy, glowing hair and skin. 

In creating their formulations, they strategically use specific parts of the plant’s flowers, leaves, seeds, stems, bark and roots to deliver supreme results. 

Yogi Bath and Beauty products are eco-friendly, and rely only on the vast resource of nature’s botanical and pure Aromatherapy oils to achieve irresistible beauty and healthy radiance because what you put on, is what you put within. 

love, #krishna 

Stand Up For Yourself Gracefully 

Intuition is knowing when to say no, and when you can move your limits.

Learn to feel it in your body – are there any situations where your body tells you to stand up for yourself more? Doing it all with grace will make it feel so much better. You probably do this already, but getting aware of the process can make it all feel more meaningful. 

love, #krishna 

Goddess Eostre  

We discover more about this ancient spring festival, the origins of Eostre and what Easter really means. Although the Christian festival of Easter celebrates the death and resurrection of Jesus and has links to the Jewish Passover, most people, including Christians, unknowingly celebrate its pagan influences, including the bunny, a symbol of fertility, and colored eggs, representing the sunlight of spring.
In the 8th century, Christian scholar Bede claimed in his book, De temporum ratione, (The Reckoning of Time) that Easter derived from the Saxon Eostre (a.k.a. Eastre). The ancient Saxons in Northern Europe worshiped the Goddess Oestre at the time of the Spring Equinox. The Goddess Easter represents the sunrise, spring-time and fertility, the renewal of life.
Pagan Anglo-Saxons made offerings of colored eggs to her at the Vernal Equinox. They placed them at graves as a charm of rebirth. (Egyptians and Greeks were also known to place eggs at gravesites).
All the fun things about Easter are thought to be pagan. Bunnies are a leftover from the pagan festival of Oestre. Exchange of eggs is an ancient custom, celebrated by many cultures. Hot cross buns are very ancient too. In the Old Testament we see the Israelites baking sweet buns for an idol, and religious leaders trying to put a stop to it. The early church clergy also tried to put a stop to sacred cakes being baked at Easter. In the end, in the face of defiant cake-baking pagan women, they gave up and blessed the cake instead. Today the pagans of Easter celebrate with an atmosphere of giving and happiness, a renewal of life. 

No matter how you celebrate may you celebrate in good health, happiness and life. 

love, #krishna 

Ideas for Cute Easter Cupcakes

Try these easy decorating ideas for an adorable, festive array of Easter desserts. 

Coconut Chick Cupcakes 

Carrot Cinnamon Cupcakes 

Flower Power Cupcakes 

Cute Bunny Cupcakes with extra nutmeg and cacao 

Celebrate the holiday with colorful and delicious Easter cupcakes made with flavors of choice, vanilla, chocolate, key lime, raspberry, lemon, and more.

love, #krishna 

Using Imagination To Change Negative To Positive – krsna  

First thing when you wake, imagine yourself tremendously content. 

Step out of bed with positive intentions in a happy mood – radiant, bubbling, expectant as if something divinely perfect, of infinite value, is going to happen today! 

Carry out the day with an attitude of gratitude in a positive mood, with the feeling that this day is not going to be an ordinary day – that something exceptional, extraordinary, is waiting for you; something is close by.  We can feel it! Try and remember it again and again for the entire day. Within eight days you will see that your whole pattern, style, walk, and  vibration, has changed. 

love, #krishna 

Twin Flame Runner Eventually Returns 

Our Twin Flames, are known to be our vibrational match in this world. We unite with our Twin Flame to experience soulful transformation and the fulfillment of our pure potentials this lifetime.  

However, connecting with our Twin Flame is an intense, overwhelming and sometimes excruciating experience. This is because it triggers and pulls up old fears, wounds and ego blockages. As a result, every Twin Flame relationship eventually experiences what we refer to as the “runner and chaser” dynamic. This period of life is both complex and extremely distressing for both partners who, deep down, simply desire Union. 

Eventually as individual healing takes place, the Twin who is known for “running” finds that it is time to return to their Twin Flame for a reunion. The message now is to surrender to the love and light that is within us. It is a call to allow the love between you and your Twin Flame to flow freely, and to fully align with the divine plan. 

Surrender empowers us to get closer to our True nature, which is that of our eternal soul, it is the final step before fully understanding and knowing ourselves. Our twin flame is the one who by just being themselves calls us to return to the Divine. 

love, #krishna