In English, please.
Those readers who have been following our journey already for a longer time know that we don’t live in Finland. However I am from Finland and also write in Finnish. Finnish is my mother tongue, the language I know well. The language inside my head, my thoughts, my dreams. That is the reason I write in Finnish and I couldn’t switch to English or any other language, it just would not be the same. Not even close.
Nevertheless, I have decided to start writing more in English and do a few sentence summaries at the end of the blog posts. This due to the following reasons:
- Living abroad means that a big part of the people I know don’t understand Finnish. My husband is not a Finn, so even he doesn’t understand what I am writing in my blog.
- I frequently get asked about my blog by non-Finnish speaking friends.
- This is also the best forum for our friends and families to follow our journey, its next exciting steps, as we keep this fully outside of Facebook and other private social media channels.
- There are also loads of future Intended Parents from all over the World, to whom this story might be useful.
Any fully in English written posts I will flag with a tag in English. I also try to find the time to translate of some of the key posts from the journey so far in English. Other than that the blog stays exactly the same as so far – honest and open description of our journey becoming a family.
Below the very first post of the blog, translated in English. The Finnish original was published in December 2014, and you find it here: blogit/matkalla-perheeksi/matka. And please forgive me any grammatical, spelling etc. mistakes, my English is far from fluent…
The Journey
We are a couple living in Europe and dreaming of becoming a family. We cannot get children of our own and therefore have decided to reach our dreams through surrogacy in United States. This blog will document our exciting, hopeful and also a little bit frightening journey to becoming a family.
I, Intended Mum, am writing this blog and I hope this blog will help other people in the same situation. I hope this blog to give surrogacy a face of a normal, childless couple. But foremost I hope, that one day I can share this story, its ups and downs, with my own children.
Due to the fact that the topic is very sensitive and also the legal situation of surrogacy is still unfavourable in many European countries, I write this blog anonymisly. If this story has a happy ending, I will add the personal information then.
Welcome to our journey!