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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  • It's grey and rainy today (we seem to have brought the Swedish summer weather with us) so we headed up to San Pantaleo for market day. We bought pecorino, torrone and local honey and one of the shopkeepers gave Nonie a very sugary bun that she devoured. Then we peered over the gate into our old garden - my parents' beautiful little village house - and I showed the children the orange tree that was planted when I was born, and my sister's lemon tree.
  • That's a five story water slide off the side of that yacht. I'm not even kidding. #malhotrasinsardegna2017
  • Yesterday started with a 04:45 wake up call after two hours of sleep and ended with a skinny dip in the pool at twilight after the kids were down for the night, tired after a long trip, a few hours at the beach, pizza at their favourite place, grocery shopping, and ice cream at everybody' favourite place. Today started with a smattering of rain on the roof and thunder rumbling in. We worried that we might have brought the Swedish weather with us. But by lunch the sun was back and we did it all again today. #malhotrasinsardegna2017
  • The trip went so well. It's so hot. We just had a quick pasta pesto up at the house before heading down to the beach. #malhotrasinsardegna2017
  • On our way! #malhotrasinsardegna2017
  • And after ice cream, pizza for dinner in my old neighbourhood!
  • Traditional last day of school ice cream in our old neighbourhood. At the end of summer Louis and Léonie will be starting at a pre-school in the burbs so we might be having summer break cones somewhere else next year! #itstraditionandyoudontmonkeywithtradition
  • Lunch out with just my big kid.
  • A day to remember. #fredriksofia2017
  • Wedding ready. Three little attendants. One bridesmaid. And the only guy at the wedding who took advantage of a white tie loophole: traditional clothes. Not shown: the Canadian flag (beside the Skåne flag) to honour the bride and groom's roots. #fredriksofia2017