up for the challenge – introduction

Normally I am up for a challenge, unless it has something to do with eating or touching some sort of creepy crawlers (or heights, but I am getting over that fear little by little). So I decided to try to participate in OnSugar’s Love. Write. Win. Blogging Challenge. The title of today’s post is “Introduce Yourself to the World”, so here we go. Likes are comments are well appreciated, and if you are also participating please leave in the comments a link to your posts as I’d love to read them too!

My life can we best described with the words “unpredictable” and “always on the move”. I have moved over 30 times in my life, which includes living in Finland, France, England, Switzerland and for the second time now in the US – this time in California, whereas the first one was in Georgia.

The family now consist of the husband, Miss Anaïs (almost 7) and twins who will be 3 around June. This blog was named after Anaïs, as her birth was the trigger to get the first renovation project, a multi-coloured country cottage in the heart of English countryside. Since I have no “home project” at the moment, I decided to start this blog where I collect house and design inspiration, showcase my slowly improving crafting, cooking and baking skills with the kids and share our new travel destinations and other experiences, that makes the life fun.

Some people say that I am the Finnish version of the tiger mom, but I just try to teach my kids to love learning, enjoy sports, travel and nature, think more globally and green, and by far it has worked very well. I am happy that all my kids now speak 4 languages – Finnish, Spanish, English and Chinese, although I have just become aware that I have given my kids a secret language that the parents do not understand (therefore my next lifelog learning project is Chinese). Some people ask why Chinese, and I just say why not, you never where we will end up next…

 

My first love

A fabulous moment – I am smiling because I already know that I am going over the top, making my personal best. Can you guess where I got my undergrad degree? (Hints are that it’s a SEC school and the school newspaper was called The Red and Black…)

 

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