christmas - The Elephant Mum

It’s time to wrap up my advent calendar on Finland. This series was originally released as daily videos on my IGTV channel. Videos are in ...

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Finland Through Expat Eyes: My Advent Calendar on Finland (Part 3)

December 22, 2020

It’s time for round 3 of my fun facts on Finland. This Christmas series is originally released as daily videos on my IGTV channel. Videos ...

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Finland Through Expat Eyes: My Advent Calendar on Finland (Part 2)

December 15, 2020

Here we are with the second round-up of my advent calendar on Finland. This series is originally released as daily videos on my IGTV channel. ...

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Finland Through Expat Eyes: My Advent Calendar on Finland (Part 1)

December 8, 2020

It’s Christmas time, it’s Christmas time! Yes, picture me jumping up and down while I say this. This is one of the most exciting yet ...

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Christmas Volunteering 2020 in Finland

November 17, 2020

Christmas is a time of celebration as well as giving. This year has been tough on all of us, but tougher on some. The economy has started a ...

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Christmas time in Finland: snow, warm glögi, and family time

December 23, 2018

We are enjoying a wonderful white Christmas this year in Finland! Despite expectations, usually the first snow – well, the one that sticks ...

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Share the Christmas joy with Joulupuu

December 1, 2018

In the past couple of years my family took part in a brilliant initiative called Joulupuu (“the Christmas tree”) organised by JCI Central Park ...

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Toddlers’ Christmas movie night

December 30, 2017

I’ve shared before how we love to have movie nights at our house. Not only it’s a special family time, we made it into a social ...

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The best Christmas gift, a personalised book by Wonderbly

December 15, 2017

When R was smaller, her grandparents bought her a special gift. We heard of Wonderbly‘s personalised books from other parents and we ...

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Paola

I was born and raised in Italy, now I live in the winter wonderland that is Finland. I worked as a mathematics researcher, an IT project manager and consultant, and now I work as product owner. I love nature, reading books, playing boardgames, cooking and eating good food. I enjoy learning languages: I speak Italian, English, Finnish, Hindi, and I understand some Spanish. I am grateful to have three wonderful kids who call me "mamma". One came from my belly, the other two from fateful encounters.