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Thank you for visiting! My name is Sophie and I am an academic researcher, a wife, and a mum of two gorgeous kids, living in sunny Queensland, Australia, and I write about navigating life, parenting, and career.

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And… it’s broken
Yesterdayhttps://www.sophieinthesun.com/post/possibly-a-broken-arm I was worried that O’s arm continued to hurt after a fall last week I took O to the minor injury and illness clinic we have not too far away (it’s like a mini hospital but for non serious medical things). There was a lot of waiting (to be seen by the nurse, for the xray, then to see the doctor), but O was so well behaved the whole time. When he had his xray, I could see straight away there was a break of some
5 hours ago2 min read


Possibly a broken arm
Unfortunately O's forearm/wrist is still sore. If we hold his arm straight out, it can bend and flex without pain which is good, but when we try to gently rotate it, it hurts him alot. (Its fine if his palm faces down, but not up). The arm looks fine from the outside Given today is day 5 of the injury, without any improvement to the rotating related pain (the bending of the wrist etc is fine now), its time to take him to the medical clinic and probably get an x-ray. He's been
1 day ago1 min read


Q2 review
So I'm a couple of weeks into my third quintile for the year. I've organised my quintiles based on the four school terms in Australia, plus the 6 week summer school break as Q5. Which means that Q1 for me basically starts in late January, which I don't mind because I can spend the first few weeks of the year as an "on ramp" to my goals of the year - ha! Now that I'm trying out some daily blogging, I thought it might be good to share a Q2 review, better a little late than neve
2 days ago2 min read


Weekend recap and a daily blog plan
I've decided I'd like to blog daily for a little while. I think one of the reasons I blog so rarely is because I feel like my blog posts need to be on the longer side. I'm hoping by blogging daily for a while, I can practice some short and sweet posts, that can build up the habit. Weekend writing So, here is a quick weekend recap. It was a low key one, which was very appreciated. It included: O fell off some play equipment last week and hurt his wrist, so we had to take it a
3 days ago2 min read
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