No Need for Coffee

No need to grab a cup of coffee and find a relaxing spot to read this week. It was a pretty ordinary week; just Portuguese class, working with the kids, and an intense wiffleball game. That’s Carol Sue with the clipboard keeping up with hits so all the kids will know their batting averages. It’s...

Words of the Week -just ignore and blurry

This week was pretty chill. We were pretty tired from the retreat. 🙂 Trev and I “hiked” around the community and up to the top of the property. It was STEEP, way steeper than the last hill we walked up, but the view was amazing. I’m liking our walks around the community. We let the...

Another Week in the Books

Daniel came over one evening to swim and play video games with the boys. After dinner, he helped us navigate even further into the city. The reward for his guidance was his favorite treat, açaí. Trev and I like açaí and this was the boys’ first time having it. It is SO good here. The...

Getting Settled In

Monday, April 1st, we moved out of the apartment and into our house for the next year. Thankfully it came furnished, most rentals in Brazil do not; not even appliances, some we looked at didn’t even have cabinets, and the renters are responsible for everything. Unlike America where the landlord usually pays for upkeep and...

First Two Weeks as Brasileiros

Please don’t scroll down or you will see how long this post is and not even read it. I’ll try to post more frequently in the future so that, hopefully, the posts won’t be long like this. There has just been so much going on, I didn’t have the mental energy to post sooner. Just...

Here We GO…

So a bit of an update, we found a really nice couple to take our dogs. It was SO hard. We all cried but the couple were so nice and already had Bostons, so they were familiar with a lot of the breed’s idiosyncrasies. Despite how hard it was to give them away, what a...

Visas and Plane Tickets

Rejected! Just two days after we submitted all our paperwork, the consulate returned our paperwork with no visas inside. Instead we found a note stating they wanted additional information (information that was not originally required). I think it had to do with some confusing wording on one of the documents we submitted. Once we gathered...

Blog Renaming

We have decided to change the name to NoHurryCains to match our Instagram account of nohurrycains. Though it might be confusing for you when you look at your inbox, I think it will make more sense in the long run. So the next post that you receive will be from NoHurryCains and NOT Mason on...

4 Year Update and BIG NEWS!

I can’t believe it has been almost four years since the last post. I can’t wait to fill you in on the BIG NEWS. Without rehashing the past too much, Covid shut our trip down and sent us home, having visited 42 out of 50 states. We came home and life went on. We put...

Heading Home…Just For Now…Hopefully

So this is what we’re looking at. I don’t know about you but this sight makes my heart sink. This is the quickest path to home. We want to be smart and safe. This was not an easy decision. In hindsight, we would have made some different decisions in the beginning of this pandemic but...