Liina Raud

I’ve always felt incredibly proud of my children’s father’s side of the family. Sipsik — a character created by my late father-in-law long before I was even an idea in my own parents’ minds — is now going to be printed on the Estonian 2 Euro coin.

There’s something deeply moving about knowing that this little character, so woven into Estonian culture and childhood, will now travel far beyond Estonia into every corner of the Eurozone.

And my children carry that legacy in their blood. Half of that DNA. Half of that story.

The other side of the story… is the other side of the story.