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Posted By Katie On April 19, 2011 9 Comments

Waving Palms & Etsy Easter Dress Sneak Peek

Filed Under: Family Values Tagged With: Easter, faith, family fun, family traditions, holidays 9 Comments

Miss A discovered the waving of the palms on Sunday while wearing one of her Easter dresses. 
No, I didn’t make the dresses. I didn’t even call on my mom the seamstress.

 I ordered two of two different dresses on Etsy. Sewing ladies love me. I am sucker. I don’t sew because…I never listened to my mother when it came time for sewing lessons. So today because of my stubbornness, I pay for sewing…unless of course my mom is sewing. Then I just give her lots of hugs and thank you’s.
But back to the palms.
On Palm Sunday in Christian churches, it is a ritual and tradition to wave the palms, symbolizing welcoming Jesus’s return to Jerusalem on a donkey in the last days of His life. Our girls waved the palms on Sunday in church with other young kids and returned home with a few to continue waving.
 Palm waving is serious business the girls learned and pretty dresses make it that much more fun.

This is a close up of Easter Dress #1. The damask print with the pink smocked bunnies are adorable. I’ll share Easter Dress #2 post Easter Sunday. 
Aside from palm waving and bunny smocked Easter dresses, another Easter tradition I am looking forward to eating later this week is my Grandma Nola’s Hot Cross Buns. I had plotted and planned to bake my own batch this past weekend but ran out of time which really means that I actually bought all ingredients and then opted for a nap. I had aspirations to link up today with my Two Maids A Milking friends for their baking link up. Instead, my mouth is still watering at the Hot Cross Buns recipe and all the recipes shared on Two Maids A Milking.
What are your Easter traditions you are honoring or celebrating this week?

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  1. Prairie Mother says

    April 19, 2011 at 12:22 pm

    I love ETSY! I could spend WAY too much $ there. Cute dresses. My mom used to smock when I was really young, hmmm..I wonder if she still has her smocking machine. I’ll have to give her a call. Thanks for jogging my memory 🙂

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  2. Robyn says

    April 19, 2011 at 12:38 pm

    What a cute Easter dress, I can’t wait to see dress #2.

    Mom made us sew in 4-H when we were young. It was also a good chance to spend time with Gma, who was our teacher. Sewing is not my cup of tea either.

    My husband is a sewer! He fixes his own chore clothes and has sewn extra pocket onto his chore coats. It is impressive and very functional for a cowboy!

    Our Easter tradition is that we are calving and stick pretty close to home.

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  3. Jent says

    April 19, 2011 at 1:24 pm

    Awww I miss when my girls would wear matching Easter dresses – heck I would be glad if they wore dresses at all now – this year we have an open beef show the Sat. before Easter and they both opted for a new show shirt instead of an Easter dress!

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  4. Beverly@Beverly's Back Porch says

    April 19, 2011 at 1:35 pm

    Miss A is adorable and I love her dress. Easter is so late this year I feel like it should be over. Happy Easter to you and your family.

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  5. texwisgirl says

    April 19, 2011 at 1:42 pm

    your kids are adorable. i remember the palm sunday traditions in my childhood home. after church, we would spend the morning weaving the palm branches/leaves into little “houses” and making crosses which we then displayed in our home for the next year.

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  6. teresafalk says

    April 19, 2011 at 2:31 pm

    Love the pretty dress! I have fond memories of my mom buying me a new Easter dress every year, going to church with my family and waving the palm branches and then eating hot cross buns at my grandparents.

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  7. The Wife of a Dairyman says

    April 19, 2011 at 4:35 pm

    That is an adorable dress! I hadn’t thought of checking out Etsy for girl’s dresses…too cute:)

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  8. Liz @ Two Maids a Milking says

    April 19, 2011 at 5:28 pm

    Cute Dress!! I too was hoping to make Hot Crossed Buns for this weeks 2 Maids a Baking, but if you noticed Sour Cream Coffee Cake made the cut…quick and easy!

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  9. Farmchick says

    April 20, 2011 at 1:48 am

    I adore Etsy a little bit too much myself. Love that dress. Too sweet.

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