Hey y’all! Thanks for stopping by. I’m Sonia and I’m from Texas.
In 2006, I met my Italian husband, Carlo, while he was on assignment in Texas. After a very quick engagement, we were married in May 2007. We enjoyed our first few years of marriage in Texas and in January 2009, began another adventure together. Torino is my husband’s hometown and the city I call home. Without knowing any Italian, I jumped in and accepted the challenge of living and learning all about my new life in Italy. Click here to read about our story.
In 2008, I began blogging in preparation for our move. I wanted to have our family and friends come along for the journey. Our blog, La Dolce Vita was the perfect way to document all of the new changes we were going through. I explored the city, began to learn a bit about photography and eat as much gelato as I could get! In 2010, we added a branch to our family tree and welcomed our first daughter and changed the name of our blog to My Sweet Monkey.
In 2011, Carlo and I decided to begin a city blog called TurinLove. My first two years in the city, I explored the tourist attractions, restaurants and searched for the best gelato. As a native of Torino, Carlo knew the history and was my advisor. We wanted to highlight everything Torino has to offer. In 2012, we welcomed our second daughter. As a mom of 2, my priorities shifted and it became a bit more challenging to explore the city alone with 2 little ones. In 2013, another baby girl joined the family. I was now trying to balance 3 girls under the age of 4. My blogs became neglected.
As we enter a new phase in our life (aka: independent children!!) I want to continue this journey with renewed purpose. I combined both blogs* into one and I’m going back to where it all began. I just want to give you a glimpse of what my life in Italy is like. I may not always post here but I am very active on Instagram and you’re more than welcome to follow me there. Welcome to A Texas mom in Torino!
* When I merged both blogs and changed from Blogger to WordPress, a lot of my photos were lost. Unfortunately my hard drive broke and I have lost an enormous amount of photos and video. So I apologize if you come across a post with errors.
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Hi! I am from Texas too….living in Varese….hmmm….lots of Texans in Italy! Nice to meet you!
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Hi Diana! Varese is not too far! My husband goes to Varese for work sometimes. I’ll need to come your way soon!
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Ciao Sonia! Great to find your blog. I am from India and I blog on Italy 🙂
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Hi Ishita! Thanks for your comment. I look forward to following your blog!
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Thank you for the follow, Sonia. I’d love to come to Turin and maybe have a cuppa someday.
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Found your blog on Grumpy Expat – you’ve got quite a selection of topics on offer! 🙂 Will be glad to read about your family and Torino life.
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Ciao TinyExpats! Thanks for stopping by. Holy moly do you have a great blog! There’s so much information. I can’t wait to read through it!
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Thanks a lot 🙂
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Hi Sonia! Are you still in Torino? We live there too from Michigan! Hope to meet you!
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Hi Carole! Welcome to Torino! Hope you’re finding it well. Would love to meet up soon. Let me know what would be good for you and we’ll set it up.
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Wow! Your blog has had a major makeover and looks awesome! I’ve been so neglectful of all blogs lately (including my own!), but so glad to see you’re continuing on! So glad to be a part of your international family! Here’s to life as an expat in Europe! xx
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Thanks! I really neglected my blogs and for about 3 years so it was overdue. So far I’ve been keeping up with it and to be honest.. I’m surprised!
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I´m so happy to have found you again! Years ago, my husband was hoping that we might move to Torino, so I freaked out a little and found your blog on expat.com. Your post on finding Mexican resources in Torino put me at ease, and I followed you (sadly, without commenting) until . . . well, I just couldn´t find you again!
While it´s the longest of long shots that we´d ever move to Torino now (but not entirely out of the question), I´m so happy to be able to read about your Italian adventures again!
And now that I´ve also got 3 kids, it´s good to know that eventually there WILL be time to blog again. I just won´t be this year. 😉
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Jill! Welcome back. Thanks for finding me again. I merged and changed the name of my blog(s) to more reflect the direction my life was going. I just had a peek at your blog and I’m hooked! Blogging will be slow but don’t worry about it, just do it when you have time (even at midnight like me..haha)!
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