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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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Getting there...

Thank you to those who wrote supportive messages on my last post, it means a lot to get that reassurance that November sounded as hard as...

Its December!

The second half of November was a lot - hence the blogging hiatus. I had such a great time writing a guest post on Elisabeth's wonderful...

A Melbourne mini-break

I’m on way home from 4 nights in Melbourne and it was such a great (if busy!) trip. I came down Thursday night for a work related event,...

Planning the rest of 2024

Last Friday I was trying to slowly get back into work after a very disrupted and difficult week, but I still felt distracted. A view I’ve...

A hard goodbye

Our beloved cat St John of 12 years died on Wednesday. He was older, but he was healthy and it was sudden. To say we loved him was an...

Halloween, illness and hello November!

It’s been over a week since I posted! This wasn’t planned but life gets in the way sometimes, hey. Here are some a random collection of...

Weekend Recap

This weekend was a lot of fun. Friday I got an impromptu text from my mum in the afternoon asking if we wanted to come over later for a...

6 on a Saturday

I’m back in my office at work! After a water “incident” (disaster?) in our work building in July, repairs needed to be done, and we were...

77 Days

There are 2.5 months, or 77 days specifically, left in 2024, and I've been considering what I would like to achieve for the rest of the...

Weekend Recap

I needed a restful, enjoyable weekend, and that's mostly what I got. The rest of my week after I returned from my interstate work trip...

Resort Life Part 2

Quick recap of the rest of our trip, which was great! After the morning at the splash park and bouncy pillow, we went back to the hotel...

Resort Life

We are here! Current view Yesterday I had the morning with the kids while Al worked, so I tidied/cleaned the house, we did some yard work...

Staycation

I am on a week break from work, starting from Wednesday this week until next Tuesday. This was really needed after such a busy period,,...

Saturday updates

This week has had a few highs and a couple of lows. Highs: We got a dishwasher installed! When we bought the house 18 months ago, we...

What I do for work

I’m pretty devastated because I just wrote a detailed post on what I do for work that took me a long time, and somehow only the heading...

Hello September!

August had some definite ups and downs, but more downs (just SO many work deadlines causing stress and exhaustion), so I’ve been looking...

This past week

My sister in law and her husband are on holiday for a week in a resort close by. We’ve had a couple of fun visits. We loved catching up,...

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