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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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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,...

Our Top 5 mid week dinners

Weve got a few reliable dinner options in our house at the moment. Dinner can be a challenge because E loves salad but not red meat, O...

Weekend recap

We had a fairly low key but nice weekend. I did not work at all (hooray!). All my grants are in, I got a one week extension on my other...

Hard things and good things

I didn’t plan to have so long between blog posts but this past week has been hard. Winter in Australia brings illness and a very busy...

A screen free week

This week, we somewhat spontaneously decided the kids needed a screen-free week, and potentially no screens on week nights going forward....

Reset Sunday

Due to my current work overload, I originally planned to work Sunday. I planned to take Saturday off work, take the kids out Sunday...

Mid-year check in

Sarah Hart-Unger suggested a mid-year check in on her recent episode of Best Laid Plans , and it timed perfectly with a) my time off to...

A good day

Yesterday was a holiday for me but not Al or ghe kids so I had an opportunity to have a “shouldless” few hours and I made the most of...

June Updates

I was going to do a June goals list but we are almost mid way through June, so I kind of missed that boat haha! So instead I’ll do some...

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