MOORE of Hallie...

Last night Hallie was laying in her bed with Brooklyn and Brooklyn told me she got out a flashlight and scriptures, turned the flashlight on and told Brooklyn she had to read her scriptures before she went to sleep.  I wonder how many of the letters she recognized!
This morning she asked me to turn the song 'Dynamite' on.  She was eating her breakfast and I was practicing some of my dance moves in the kitchen when she groans and says, 'You are really creeping me out!"  Believe me, she was not joking in the least.  And I've been practicing so hard at Zumba each week! Will anyone ever appreciate my dancing?!  Probably the sweetest moment I've experienced with my mom since her passing was because of dancing.  For those who don't know me or haven't seen me dance with their own eyes, natural rhythm doesn't come naturally to me.  Before my first 'Beehive/Deacon' dance when I was 12 years old, my mom who I get my amazing dancing from no doubt, asked my cousin Marcy to come over and practice with me.  We practiced stepping side to side with the little toe tap and trying to feel the beat.  Anyway when Jordynn was probably close to that age, she was going to be singing in the school talent show, so I was passing on my amazing knowledge and skills trying to teach her the sway or side step.  Right in the middle of this process I glanced up at an 8 x 10 picture of my mom on a shelf above me and she was looking right at me literally laughing! I immediately 'joined' her so she'd be laughing with me and not at me! I say all of this trying to be funny, but even as I type tears are running down my face just as they did that day when we truly 'laughed together' as the generations and all that goes with it continued on!  I felt her presence stronger at that moment then I ever have since she's passed and I have felt very close to her on several occasions.  Most of those times I just cry because I miss her - it was so nice to experience a happy moment with her! (Even at my expense, I'll take it!)