Jitterbug
Father - Daughter dance at my Wedding! March 4th is my Dad's birthday and I am so thankful for the memories I have with him over the 52 years I've known him. In the mid 70s, I was a tween and my dad taught me how to jitterbug. He taught both me and Christy. He and mom used to jitterbug all the time early on in their relationship. Dad LOVED to dance. It was in his blood. And I LOVED to dance with him. He could just feel the beat of the music and it made him want to get up and dance. Dancing the jitterbug with Dad is one of the happiest memories I have of my father. I swear if he could walk today he would be up dancing with me. Learning the jitterbug was the first time in my life my dad had taught me something that I would end up enjoying the rest of my life. I loved it! It really taught you how to follow a lead and made you work together in lock step to make partner dancing look easy. The jitterbug was the ...