Ivana's Calamarities

Screenshot of an Instagram comment. It says: 'It's like they've been vacuum sealed.'

Best comment I saw under their pic

Thank you, Kristi.

<3

Hand holding a box of 16 various, colourful chocolates.

Hand holding a red cup of coffee on a lap under a duvet, Samin Nosrat's 'Good Things' next to it.

Funeral is behind us. Almost emptied out the house yesterday.
I slept on mum's bed, which is now mine.

For the first time in a long time I'm having coffee in bed, listening to music, cookbook on my lap. Finally have time to enjoy the lovely chocolates @yvdutchpagan.bsky.social gave me.
Small steps.

Thank you, dear Shi ❤️

Thanks Chris

Ty Ana <3

<3

Thank you

My mother in a costume during one of the operas she sang in.

An empty hospital bed with a pink flower on the pillow.

Goodbye, dear mother.
You mighty woman.
Take care of her, dad.

🔥

I'm about halfway through the game, agree with both points. 😅 Or, well, I call it challenging rather than difficult. ^.^

😂

This. Anyone can take your name once you do it and I have heard of it happening.

A snow covered table is seen through a door. There are many crows on it, feasting.

I fed my feathered friends.

Mandatory rest. But I do have the best seat in the house.

You too!

I am yes, I assume you mean ontbijtkoek? Iirc there are recipes in one of my Dutch cookbooks, I can check in the morning for you. :)

Cartoon. Group of people are standing hiding around a corner and carefullt pushing a door with 2026 on it open with a long broom.

I'll never get over his little haircut, makes me chuckle every time 😂

Could not have put it better.

You too, dear Shi 💚

Barren field, few trees on the horizon and the sun shining low. Sky is blue with only a few small clouds.

Green field on the left, reed on the right and a tree in the middle. Low sun, blue skies.

One daisy with 4 flowers all by itself in sand.

Treetops in the sun, naked wide branches, blue sky in the background.

Walk. 🧡

Hey, colourful people like this make life more fun! 😁

I feel this on such a deep level

A black table at a restaurant with food, drinks and cutlery.

Managed to escape the chaos of life for a morning and got treated to a lunch with friends. 💜
(My vitello tonnato salad was bomb.)

Poem by Brianna Pastor. It says: i don't want to grow a thick skin i want my skin to stay as thin as it was made and everything outside of that to be softer

Whaa lucky you, it's beautiful!

Floor with various blocks of colour and 4 lines running over them, yellow, red, blue, green.

Hospital, the place that should be accessible to all.
'Follow the blue line to get to the correct waiting room.'
1 in 12 men are colour blind, who even makes these decisions jfc.

Big pot of Dutch split pea soup (snert) on a black counter with a wooden spoon in it.

*many hours later*

Snert is done
I can't feel my knees
Fralalalalaaaa
Lalaaa laaa laaa 🎵

Two pots on a black kitchen counter. The left has stock, the right has a strainer on it through which the stock is being strained.

A ladle holding split peas up in a pot of stock.

Strain the stock and
Cook the split peas
Fralala lalala
Lalalaaa 🎵