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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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Conference life

Hello from the Gold Coast QLD! I am at a research conference and it’s been busy but fun. View from my balcony at sunset Just a quick...

Weekly recap and hormonal blues

How has it been a week since I last posted? I guess first week back at school for E and my work gearing up for the year means less time...

Life updates

This week we are heading back to school and I’m HERE FOR IT. I've been back at work for a couple of weeks, and O back to daycare, but E...

Guest Post at Lisa’s Yarns!

I was honoured when Lisa invited me to do a guest post on her blog. I’m sure most readers know Lisa, she is a longtime blogger,...

2025 Goals: Bucket List

This is a bonus instalment in my 2025 Goals series. The first 3 posts were my primary goals and covered Word of the Year and Personal...

Back to routine

Last week was the final week of my 3 weeks of annual leave , and it was a transition week from full holiday mode (with family and friends...

2025 Goals - Health/Fitness and Home

This is the second instalment (out of three) summarising my 2025 goals. The first  focused on my word of the year and personal goals....

Hello 2025!

This is week 2 of my 3 week break , and we have our friends (who have 3 kids aged 4-10) from New Zealand staying with us for 3 nights....

2024 Reflections

I've been taking some time this week - in little pockets of time around all the parenting and family time - to reflect on 2024...

Christmas Recap

Tried to write this post a couple of times but family time interrupted me! Third time lucky :) It’s been a great few days. Christmas Eve...

Summer break plans

Today was my last day of work for the year - I am now on 3 weeks of leave! E is one week into her 6 week break, and O has two weeks off...

Much better!

Happy to report E is better- looks like it was just a nasty virus. After coming home from the hospital on Monday evening, E slept well,...

7 Hours in Emergency

Well, that’s not how I planned to spend my Monday! Poor E had been getting headaches on and off since Wednesday last week, with no other...

Christmas Cheer

We put up our tree! We usually do this on December 1st, but last weekend the rain was so heavy that dragging the tree from where it’s...

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,...

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