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.
A few weeks ago was the first birthday of this blog! For some reason I thought it was late March, but when I checked, my first ever blog post was actually March 1st, 2024 . Since that first post, I have written and published 90 blog posts. Reflecting on the last 13 months, I've definitely learnt some things along the way: Blog posts take time to write - perhaps others are quicker, but it takes me about 45 - 90 minutes to write a post that takes 3-5 minutes to read. My orig