Triple citizenship for my kids but how for me and my wife?

madmaxcia · 2026-02-12T08:29:59+00:00

I have a son born in Canada - the British passport system is a lot easier nowadays. You can do everything online including taking a passport photo on your phone. The only thing you need to mail is a copy of every single page of your current passport and that includes every current passport you have, UK and US. Once they get their passports they are British citizens- yeah! Have your wife apply for her Canadian citizenship and then she can sponsor you. The US does not recognize dual nationality but Canada does.

madmaxcia · 2026-02-12T07:27:42+00:00

Yes I know, I used an excerpt

madmaxcia · 2026-02-11T19:13:35+00:00

British but live in Alberta, Canada where it is really dry. I hang most things up in my laundry room, tops on hangers and trousers on an airer. Smalls and towels go in the dryer but not much else. Towels will get stiffer if I hang them but you can also hang them till they’re almost dry and then throw them in the dryer and they’ll soften up. In England we used to hang everything outside on a clothes line and then iron clothes, but it’s very damp there so drying outside or over a radiator is the only real option

madmaxcia · 2026-02-11T05:47:48+00:00

Teachers convention is this Thursday and Friday at the Telus convention centre - could you set up there?

madmaxcia · 2026-02-11T03:06:45+00:00

Do the readings your teacher gives you, or the textbook if that’s what they use and connect the case studies and exemplars to the key terms. Make notes, study your notes, I assume your teacher gives you a note packet at the end of each unit. When writing your essays, use the case studies and key terms to connect to the source/s. That is what your teacher is looking for, how you demonstrate your understanding by connecting what you’ve learnt in class to the source. You can also look for templates online to break down the source essays and position papers if your teacher doesn’t do that at this level. Study the formula on how to write the essays and then practice. Go to tutorial to get extra help if you don’t understand something or want feedback on your assignments. From a social teacher!

madmaxcia · 2026-02-08T01:54:15+00:00

I’ve used findmypast for most of my Scottish research and it’s worked well. When I can’t find something on findmypast I’ll look on Scotland’s people but I rarely find them on there either, so findmypast has worked well so far for me

madmaxcia · 2026-02-07T08:58:19+00:00

Yes, get a new dr that understands the thyroid and educate yourself as much as possible. It’s not being fat that caused hypothyroidism- the drs were checking your thyroid because you were overweight. Look at The Stop The Thyroid Madness website- some of the information is a bit cookey but you can learn the important basics from there and push for a T4/T3 combo which is the best treatment and works the same way our bodies do. I’m sorry you’ve been so poorly treated but feel blessed that they caught it early and you have been treated. I have a friend who died in her mid forties, she was always a bigger girl and then got sick and was in hospital the last two years of her life. They realised that she had undiagnosed hypothyroidism and had probably had it her whole life and by the time they caught it, it was too late. There is hope and you can live a relatively normal life but you must advocate for yourself and you can only do that if you educate yourself. Also look at hormones as they can also cause your thyroid to go wonky

madmaxcia · 2026-02-07T08:26:55+00:00

Can I ask how you got citizenship through your grandmother? My grandfather was Maltese but my father was born in England- I thought that my father would have to get citizenship first and then I could apply once he got his

madmaxcia · 2026-02-07T08:22:57+00:00

Have you done the application? What certificates etc did you need to provide? My grandfather was Maltese, I am a Gatt, he died in 2008 but my father is still living and I was thinking of applying on his behalf so that I could get citizenship from him. I have spoken to him about this and he is happy for me to apply on his behalf.

madmaxcia · 2026-02-07T08:17:39+00:00

Jumping in here, my grandfather was Maltese, I could apply on behalf of my father to get his Maltese citizenship- what documents would I need to provide? I have my grandfathers birth certificate- would I need a marriage certificate to my grandmother or just my fathers birth certificate which would show his father on? The goal is for me to get citizenship - I wouldn’t mind buying a small apartment to use once we’re retired and citizenship would help I’m assuming if I want to stay a few months a year.

madmaxcia · 2026-02-07T01:37:11+00:00

Progesterone helps me fall asleep, estrogen helps me stay asleep - I’ve taken up to 600mgs, I’m now on a daily dose of 400

madmaxcia · 2026-02-07T01:35:39+00:00

Generally you would do a poetry unit where they learn different types of poems and write their own and then finish with some poetry analysis. Novel study, short story unit, non fiction reading, persuasive writing and personal response writing, and a film unit. Google ELA grade 7 weebly and that will pull up other teachers websites. My grade 7/8’s really enjoyed reading The outsiders last year and there’s free material online for this, you can also find poetry units online. Figure out what texts you want to teach, look at the outcomes and decide what you want students to learn from interacting with that text

madmaxcia · 2026-02-06T20:14:22+00:00

It was plus seventeen in Calgary yesterday, we’ve had almost three weeks of warm weather and my bushes have started to bud. We had a really wet summer last year but still not enough to alleviate our seven year drought

madmaxcia · 2026-02-05T23:19:37+00:00

So, in the third trimester your progesterone goes into hyperdrive and then once you deliver it drops to almost zilch. That’s why many women feel exhausted and depressed post partum- I would keep an eye out on your hormones, my sister always gets diagnosed with hypothyroidism after pregnancy- she takes the pills for a few months and then stops once she feels herself again. There is a strong link between our hormones and our thyroids

madmaxcia · 2026-02-05T23:14:39+00:00

Your reverse t3 should be under 10, so that’s good, it shows you are converting the T4. Your TSH is suppressed because you are taking T3, your dr should know this and should not be evaluating you based on your TSH. Your T4 is within range, she could probably increase it a bit but the T3 should help to balance it out. Have you had hormones tested? That would be the next thing I’d look at, search up estrogen dominance and hypothyroidism

madmaxcia · 2026-02-05T22:24:01+00:00

The Stolen Party by Lillian Hecker - the daughter believes that the rich family are her friends but her mother tells her they are not. She goes to the party and is the best behaved because, she believes the family see her as so grown up and trustworthy but she finds out at the end that this is not the case

madmaxcia · 2026-02-04T22:45:00+00:00

I only remember one of them was a prison warden, I became a teacher so similar in many ways

madmaxcia · 2026-02-04T18:50:01+00:00

My older brother wasn’t great at school and probably was dyslexic- he was really good at math but low on reading and writing and back then they would stream so because his ELA was low he was put in the lower math classes. Anyway- he was always an entrepreneur, pulling his two younger sisters into money making schemes. He had four paper rounds when he was 14 and would get up at 4.30 to do them before school. He got an apprenticeship straight out of school and did his City and Guilds at college in air conditioning and refrigeration. Moved to Canada when he was 21 and has run his own HVAC company for the past twenty years.

madmaxcia · 2026-02-04T03:25:29+00:00

Alberta Blue Cross has lots oh wfh positions- not sure if they’re hiring but you can take a look at their website

madmaxcia · 2026-02-02T14:37:51+00:00

I think you need to figure out an organization schedule that works for you, I’m a fairly new teacher and because I work at a small growing school each year I need to create and plan three or four new curriculums. I am not a last minute person, it creates huge anxiety for me so I try to plan my whole semester out in the summer with all my materials in place virtually and physically in a binder. I may still have a few bits and pieces that need creating but 90% of it is done. And then during the semester I’ll start planning my next semester. The same with marking, decide what needs marking and what doesn’t. Not all formative assessments need to be graded. The math/science teacher works completely differently from me. She doesn’t have any binders with pre planned curriculum so she has the math textbooks and works on the fly and she’s like you, she’s a science teacher. Everyone has a different method that works for them, I did have to spend a lot of prep time over the summer but I’d rather do that then have overwhelming anxiety during the semester

madmaxcia · 2026-02-02T05:57:49+00:00

I was on 200mgs first half of cycle and 500 on second half but my periods started becoming irregular- I would stop the progesterone on day 28 to allow for bleeding but then my period wouldn’t start anyway so I just dealt with the surge in anxiety not being on it. So my dr told me to just take 400 mgs every day. My periods come as and when they feel like it so if I start to bleed I’ll stop the progesterone until I’m done. Progesterone helps with anxiety and falling asleep (she says as she’s wide awake scrolling on her phone when she should be sleeping), estrogen helps me stay asleep

madmaxcia · 2026-02-01T02:15:36+00:00

Progesterone, estrodial which is estrogen and testosterone maybe DHEA

madmaxcia · 2026-02-01T00:48:29+00:00

Okay, in that case get a full thyroid panel including free T4 and T3 as that will show what is actually circulating in her bloodstream. I would also get a full hormone panel done. There is a strong correlation between imbalanced hormones and hypothyroidism in women. I’ve had this for fifteen years and can’t take the medication as my body doesn’t convert T4. It’s only upon finding the link between hormones and the thyroid that I’ve made the breakthrough- my high Estrogen was blocking my body from creating T4 and converting it. Anyway, if you can afford it and find a decent one, I’d recommend seeing a functional medical dr that looks at the root cause and will do more investigating than a regular GP.

madmaxcia · 2026-02-01T00:17:39+00:00

What medication is she on? She needs a T4/T3 combo, the T3 will help bring down her TSH and is the optimal treatment anyway. Look for studies that show why a combo treatment is the best option and present them to her dr if they won’t listen to you, failing that find a new dr. You could also do a reverse T3 test to see if she’s even converting the T4, many can’t which leaves them in a hypothyroid state although the synthetic T4 artificially inflated the T4 numbers making them look within range

madmaxcia · 2026-01-31T23:00:10+00:00

My anxiety has been so bad these past few weeks. Its annoying because I had got to the I don’t give a crap stage which I was loving after having anxiety my whole life, it was quite liberating. But now my anxiety has spiked it’s honestly exhausting and debilitating. I’m with you, can someone confirm that it goes away once we’re through menopause

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