About

Welcome to Mini Piccolini! I am so glad you are here!

Mini Piccolini is all about the good life as a family with small children. How to live, love, eat, travel, play and learn better together.

I’m Mina and I live with my husband Sumit and our three little minis: five and a half year old Alec, four year old Louis (like “Vuitton” – silent ‘s’), and two year old Léonie, in Stockholm Sweden. We just moved from our very urban life in a flat in an awesome neighborhood in Stockholm to a little white house in the suburbs. And I just left my day job to freelance full-time as a copywriter and writer. We spend as much time as we can in the country. Life with three such small children is a constant balancing act – very intense at best, and really really hard a lot of the time. But we have fabulous kids who definitely keep us laughing.

I’m so glad you have found my little corner of the web! Right now we are just trying to settle into our new life in the burbs. Alec just started kindergarten and I am getting my freelance business off the ground.

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  • First grade!! And the end of a loooong summer vaca for this little gang (although the smaller two don't start until next week). When I set my alarm clock last night I realized I hadn't used it since the 04:45 wake-up call when we left for Italy 7+ weeks ago! Thanks Swedish parental leave for these two lovely months off with our minis! It has been 👌🏼. #firstgrade #firstdayofschool
  • School starts tomorrow so Alec was in a crunch to finish the last couple of boxes on his summer reading bingo. Watching him read to his siblings in the grass was the best thing ever. Every few pages he stopped and asked them if they had any questions and then thoughtfully answered the ones they had (like explaining what an island is to Nonie). #summerreading #läsbingo
  • Little Nonie Pony, watering the kids' little garden and then knicking all the strawberries while her brothers are at swimming.
  • Alec picking strawberries for his little cousin Hermine.
  • Creative evenings in the studio with my girl while the boys are at swimming.
  • Pit stop for coffee and energy balls at our local spot when it was just the three of us the other day.
  • Little Nonie, in her orange life jacket, off on a little adventure with Morfar and her great aunt. #countrylife
  • And dessert on the lawn. The kids picked raspberries and currants and my mum made a beautiful pavlova.
  • Second location: Dinner was pasta pesto (birthday boy's choice) out front.
  • For Louis' birthday dinner, my parents set up what they called a "progressive dinner". Here's before dinner drinks and hors d'oevres in the perennial garden.