Our present to our mothers (and ourselves) this Mother's Day was to bribe them with some gas money to come visit us. Curt's Mom and Grandma Smith arrived Friday night from NE and got to stay till after lunch time on Monday. They opted to try out Ross and Carol's new house at the farm, so we spent most of the weekend over there with them. We enjoyed spending time together and talking. (We didn't have much else on the agenda.) I had some nasty sinus symptoms (probably from going to a city-wide yard sale in the wind with no hat), so I missed church Sunday morning. But Grandma Smith's amazing backrub helped me feel much better, so my first Mother's Day wasn't all bad after all.

The Green side of our family plans to accept our bribe closer to Megan's birthday and after Mom and Katie get out of school. We look forward to their visit, too.