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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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I can't do all the things

The last few weeks I'd slowly been feeling more and more overwhelmed with life, the sheer number of work, personal, family, and life admin tasks have been stacking up. When I set all my goals in January, the kids hadn't yet started school or activities, work was quiet, and everything seemed do-able. Over the past couple of months, the calender has gotten more and more full. This is definitely a busy time of year, but over the past week, I've spent a number of early morning

Mar 313 min read

February's recap and final FIGS

How did the month go so fast? I need to remind myself that this February EVERY year, because I have a feeling that every year its like this, and every year I'm somehow surprised. Its the start of the school year, its gearing up at work after the slower summer, its only 28 days long! At work I had A LOT of meetings on the calendar . It seemed like every team, committee, and seminar organisers had picked February for their first event of the year (of course, because no one sch

Feb 284 min read

Finally making progress

WELL. It’s been quite a fortnight , trying to a) catch up on an increasingly overwhelming workload at work, b) tame our house that got out of control during the cyclone scare, c) manage extra kids stuff including medical appointments - all while battling some mood and energy issues that have meant I have NOT felt myself. Overall, no major disasters have occurred that would explain why this past two weeks have felt SO hard, to the point where I couldn’t even blog. I think it

Mar 24, 20253 min read

The suns out!

Very happy to report that it stopped raining Monday afternoon and the flood waters mostly receded overnight so we could all return to work and school on Tuesday. Sunshine on my Tuesday lunch break Monday was basically a screen free-for-all for the kids. I did some work but was still quite distracted. By maybe 3 or 4 it finally stopped raining. It had rained heavily for basically 24 hours straight, and we got at least 350 mm. Al and E were able to get out of the driveway by ab

Mar 12, 20252 min read

The week that was

Well, what a week. It ended up being a really good trip, but as I predicted very intense, in fact even more busy than I thought. There...

Mar 25, 20242 min read