Happy and Blessed Palm Sunday

I generally like Palm Sunday services and today was really no exception.  The music was beautiful and the sermon was thought provoking.  All good as usual. But about those palms. We are always given palm branches to wave during the service and they are generally waved with enthusiasm.  They are also always big, traditional looking palm branches.  But not this year.  The palms we were given this year were skinny little things.  They looked green and healthy but the fronds are only about 1/8th inch thick.  There is probably a very good reason for using these mini-palms this year.  I hope they are ecologically more friendly than the traditional, or economically more conservative but I didn't see any explanation in the bulletin. I wouldn't mind so much but every year I use two fronds to make a palm frond cross which hangs in my house for the year.  I learned this practice from the nuns when I taught in a Catholic school and I like it. But I will have to get very creative and weave about 27 of these fronds together to make a cross this year,  Now that I think about it, that might be fun. We'll see how this works out.