The Copeland Ramblings/

Moving Day Eve

As my siblings and I used to say as children, “one more sleep!”. Tomorrow we move out of our apartment and into the NTM guesthouse. We have our apartment until the end of the month but we wanted time to do some repairs not to mention that there are rumors of demonstrations around town at [...]

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32 days!

Thirty two! 32! Trente-deux! XXXII! Yep thats right! 32 days until we board a plane to Canada. I am having a little bit of writers block even trying to describe how we feel about that. Pretty much every possible thing! Stressed, too much to do, excited, relieved, sad, happy, scared, thrilled, and “Is this really [...]

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20.12.2011 Family1 Comment

A Strange Christmas

This year things are a bit different for us. We are preparing to move out of our apartment and even more than that we are preparing to move back to Canada. Its been a true emotional roller coaster for us and we decided that this year we would celebrate a little differently than a typical [...]

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Decorating contest

A few days ago we were invited to be a part of a jury to judge the kids classrooms at school. They had a Christmas decorating contest. They all worked very hard to decorate their classrooms as well as they could. We were very honored to be asked to come be a part of the [...]

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Vente!

So sorry the posts have been few and far between lately! But we have been kinda busy… apparently preparing for a huge life change takes a lot of time. Haha. We have been preparing ourselves mentally as well as physically. We have a lot of things to do before we leave Senegal. We have started [...]

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Happy 3rd Birthday Emmaus!

Happy birthday to our sweet energizer bunny who always wants to snuggle! You entertain us every day! You wear your heart on your sleeve… or maybe your many wacky face expressions. We have truly loved the last three years with you and so look forward to the many more ahead. We love you so much [...]

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Outings

During the kids school break I had planned a whole bunch of fun outings. I was really looking forward to doing a lot of stuff with the kids. But unfortunately I was quite sick during the kids break. So we only got to do a few of the planned outings. Here are a couple pictures [...]

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15.11.2011 Family3 Comments

Mom! Can we do a project?!?!

My computer is up and running again! Thank the Lord! And thanks to Norm! I have many many fun things to post about! So hopefully over the next week I can catch up.  I really want to post about our week and a half school break and all the fun things we did. So for [...]

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17.10.2011 Family1 Comment

Emmaus’ black eye

Poor little guy came home from school today with a nasty black eye. They didn’t really tell me what happened when he was dropped off from school today, but Canaan said he slipped off of the slide. It looks painful but he hasn’t complained one bit. Share this:Share

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Dust mites! Be gone!

Many of you know about my severe allergies here in Senegal, and that we have been wanting to get a dryer to help with these terrible allergies. I have very bad allergies to dust mites. And we live in a VERY dusty part of the world… very dirty dust none the less! We have been [...]

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