Hi, I’m Helen. Nice to meet you.

I am…

• A woman in my thirties.
• Married to Eric.
• A mother of two kids, Ingrid who’s almost 5 and Adrian who is 1 year old.
• Estonian by birth, Swedish in everyday life, and multiculturally rootless by inclination.
• A software developer, currently head of development at ReQtest.

I like to read and to write, to code and to cook, to cycle and to dance. I like the colour orange. I am mostly vegetarian.

I grew up in then-Soviet Estonia, moved to Sweden when I was 15, moved again to London when I started working after university, and finally moved back and settled for the long term in a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden, when Ingrid was a year and a half.

I write this blog for two audiences: myself, and friends and family. For friends and family, especially the faraway ones, I hope it helps us keep in touch. For my own sake, I write so as to get things out of my head and onto “paper”. I also write to remember things: the blog helps me recall life’s good moments. You can read more about why I blog.

I usually write about the things that are topmost in my mind. Five years ago this meant book reviews, posts about concerts and dance performances, etc. Currently it means a lot of posting about parenting, about our house and garden, and everyday life with the kids. I don’t usually write about my work – this is a personal blog, not a technical one.