This is the bible for expectant mothers

I started this period so well by cooking delicious meals every day: recipes from my mother or from one of my many untouched cookbooks, but then top restaurants began offering fantastic home menus and it all went wrong. All you have to do is prepare the mise-en-place or warm something small, and you have a divine multi-course menu. It started with a date night once a week, where we dressed up nicely. But now we are at two takeout nights a week... I had bought delicious asparagus to prepare myself for yesterday, but then we walked past restaurant De Kas during our walk and saw a nice menu described on the board. You can feel it: yesterday I didn't touch an asparagus peeler and we dressed up nicely again for a midweek date. Ah, under the guise of #supporthoreca, we are actually doing something very good, right?

What a beautiful gift I received from Nina Pierson. Her book Mama'en is out and is literally a bible for expectant mothers. Full of facts, but also to teach you to trust your intuition. This is the book I missed during my pregnancy in preparation for that event that turns your life upside down. So don't wait until your baby shower, because then you miss all the useful tips and info about those first months of pregnancy. Fortunately, the book continues into the first period after childbirth, so I'm going to read it soon.

From the beginning of the ‘lockdown’, I immediately had grand crafting plans: three knitting kits, 1000 pearls stocked up for that one idea, and four tubes of glue for my other, if I may say so, brilliant concept. But you can see it coming: we were five weeks in and everything was still in the packaging. Until last week, on a lost evening, I found the energy to pick one up and after five minutes thought: I should film this. And voilà: that's how Quarantine Crafting with Carolien was born. Meanwhile, episode two is on my IGTV and I'm really curious what you all think of it.