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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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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
6 on a Saturday
I’m back in my office at work! After a water “incident” (disaster?) in our work building in July, repairs needed to be done, and we were...
Oct 19, 20242 min read
77 Days
There are 2.5 months, or 77 days specifically, left in 2024, and I've been considering what I would like to achieve for the rest of the...
Oct 15, 20244 min read
Weekend Recap
I needed a restful, enjoyable weekend, and that's mostly what I got. The rest of my week after I returned from my interstate work trip...
Oct 14, 20246 min read
Blog post number 50 - hello from a work trip!
I did a count and realised this will be my 50th blog post, which feels like a milestone. I started my blog in March I believe, so I’ve...
Oct 9, 20242 min read
Birthdays, planners, walking and other things
I started to write a blog post a few times over the past week but didn’t manage to finish, it’s been such a busy week. The weather has...
Oct 4, 20242 min read
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