April 1 was my paternal grandma’s birthday. I always thought that must have had lots of unusual festivities, given that my grandaddy was a big prankster. I’m told she was a very funny lady.
It’s Palm Sunday (Sunday before Easter) along with being April Fool’s Day.
In our church we have a little procession with everyone singing and waving palm
branches before the actual church service. My son and I plotted beforehand
to trace our hands on construction paper and make a lot of paper hands
and then we attached the paper hands to sticks, in a leafy sort of way.
We took them to church and waved those during the procession, instead of
the regular leafy kind. Some people looked at us a little puzzled, but most
people said “Oh, PALM branches, I get it, har har”