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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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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...

Jan 13, 20253 min read

2025 Goals - Family/Relationships and Work

This is my third and final instalment in my series on 2025 goals - this first focused on word of the year and personal goals, the second...

Jan 10, 20254 min read

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....

Jan 8, 20254 min read

2025 Goals - Word of the Year and Personal Goals

I'm definitely feeling the New Year energy - which is a good feeling I'm going to enjoy for as long as it lasts. Our friends headed off...

Jan 5, 20253 min read

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....

Jan 2, 20252 min read

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...

Dec 29, 20244 min read

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...

Dec 27, 20243 min read

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...

Dec 21, 20245 min read

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,...

Dec 18, 20241 min read

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...

Dec 17, 20243 min read

Christmas shopping, lights, and a date night

This has been a busy last week, but in a delightful way. E finished school for the year! She actually had a headache a couple of days...

Dec 16, 20244 min read

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...

Dec 9, 20242 min read

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...

Dec 7, 20244 min read

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...

Dec 2, 20243 min read

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,...

Nov 18, 20242 min read

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...

Nov 13, 20243 min read

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...

Nov 8, 20242 min read

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...

Nov 5, 20242 min read

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...

Oct 29, 20243 min read

My end of year project, Scouts, and other fun things

I've made a decision on which project to focus on for the remainder of 2024. I was trying to decide whether to work on creating an...

Oct 25, 20242 min read