Alberta is huge. That would be like almost the entire state of Texas burning. Overall, it's pretty sparsely populated. If Alberta were a state, it would be ranked 27th for population size. It has about the same number of people as Oregon.

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A neonatologist,and I didn't want to ever get married or have kids. What a completely different life I lead. :lol:

Me, too.

I hope my children are this generous towards me when I get older.

ha, ha. Well, I do happen to be not exactly tall. I'm almost 5'3"

me? or OP

I love mid-rise jeans :wub: because they're so comfortable. I don't think I can ever go back. I have a whole closet full of high-rise that never get worn anymore.

The boiler in our apartment building is out. Cold showers, in March, in Canada, are not happening. :p I now have another reason to get myself to the gym. Will it be enough motivation? :lol:

I'm thinking that the statistic is deceptive. Many homeschooled kids in AZ also finish high school with an AA, so they end up being transfer students.

I don't know, but I'm in your same boat. It keeps me up at night.

The pain, for me that was deliberating part of a migraine. My aura always consisted mostly of losing all peripheral vision, nothing more.

I found that if I took medication when the aura was first starting that I could somehow circumvent it. If I didn't take medication soon enough, no such luck. I think mine were hormonal, because after one of my pregnancies I stopped getting auras. That was a bummer, then there was no way for me to head-off the migraine, and they really interfered with life for awhile. After my very last pregnancy the migraines just...stopped. I think I've had 2-3 in the last 10 years, after a lifetime of suffering through them. Go figure. Hugs to you. Migraines suck :(

1/2 & 1/2, and if I run out I mix full on cream w/ milk. I don't like that as much. I don't add sugar. I prefer my coffee unsweetened.

I always hear people saying this in the states. But, having lived under the US system almost my entire life, and now experiencing the Canadian system firsthand, I vastly prefer the Canadian model.

We're currently in an apartment and this was by far the hardest adjustment to make. I thought I was going to go crazy the first year we were here. The others things that took a while to adjust to were: having shared laundry facilities and having to be so conscience of our noise level.

My children in Canadian high school also have just as many subjects as their American (US) counterparts (over the course of the school year). The difference is that most of their subjects are semestered, so they only have 4 classes each term. There are optional periods before and after "official" school hours if they want to add more subjects, but they're not required to.

I don't think living abroad as an expat is completely comparable. As an expat you usually do not qualify for all, or the same, tax/social benefits as the native population. This has been my experience anyway. ymmv

Can you grow pomegranates that far north? Pecans? We loved our plum tree. The only thing I didn't love was that they ALL seemed to ripen at exactly the same time, and there was no way to eat them all soon enough, not even with five kids. It was also really hard to keep the birds away :tongue_smilie: While living in the SW we planted quite a few fruit & nut trees. When we moved the person that bought our house allowed all of them to die :( Yes, they even managed to kill the massive pecan tree.

Yup. This is our go-to control as well.

I vote awesome.

I actually have experience with this because I red-shirted my three youngest children. The child that struggled (and still struggles) in math: I did not bump her back up when she started high school. Being behind in math means that they also struggle with all math related sciences. Why set her up for failure? She will graduate from public school the month after she turns 19. Child number two is going to be skipping grade 9. He's currently at home and in grade 8, but doing all grade 9 work. He will start 10th grade at his assigned ps in the fall. High school starts in grade 10 here. He will graduate at 17 because he has a very late summer birthday (the reason he was red-shirted to begin with). I would keep your daughter where she is.

Yup, when kids were little it was Costco for goggles. We also did bungee strings when the straps broke.

My only knowledge of deer and FL comes from The Yearling. And the only place I successfully grew veggies while living there, was in the compost :p

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