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The First Trip Back To India

January 16, 2024

In April this year, E. and I visited India for about 2 weeks. It was the first time E. was travelling to India after the adoption. I had spent ...

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Adoption and Cultural Identity: Tips for Parents

March 13, 2021

In a recent post, I have shared some reflections on my own cultural identity and how I set to help my children build theirs. Cultivating our ...

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7 Joys Adoption Brought Into My Life | #adoptionilo

March 17, 2019

This week March 11th-17th celebrates the joys of adoption here in Finland under the campaign #adoptionilo. Adoption starts out of loss, but the ...

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From Italy to India, via Finland

December 19, 2018

The following post is authored by myself and appeared in the latest issue of Adoptioperheet’s magazine. Adoptioperheet is the association ...

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The joy in adoption #adoptionilo

March 10, 2018

Next Monday will mark the start of a national campaign in Finland called adoptionilo, the joy in adoption. If you’ve been following me, you ...

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Growing up in a multicultural family

Growing up in a multicultural family. A mixture of two cultures: Raj’s story

December 27, 2017

Since when I became a mother, I’ve kept wondering how will our multicultural family influence our children’s cultural identity. ...

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How ResQ Club is giving us back our family quality time

November 18, 2017

Our life is constantly on the run. We’re full-time working parents, juggling three cultures in our family. We could probably write a full ...

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Adoption in Finland: our story, chapter IV

November 8, 2017

I was at work when the social worker called me to announce the Indian Court has ruled the E. was our son. I started crying in the office phone ...

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Adoption in Finland: our story, chapter III

October 18, 2017

[this is the third part of our adoption story. Find part 1 here and part 2 here.] The wait to get our home-study approved seemed endless. After ...

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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.