bloggin lately?

Since Titus has come along things have changed quite a bit. From time to time people will ask me about what it is like being a dad. That question is about the same as when someone asks you when and how you know you are in love. You have a million things to say, but really can not answer the original question.
That is what it is like for me.
The pics above leave me amazed to how amazing Titus is...but he has a dark side too when he cries and yells and screams requiring amazing amounts of walking in circles and bouncing him while continuing to replace the pacifier that he keeps spitting out over and over (after a while you just stop worrying about the pacifier being "clean" as the 5-second rule applies). Still despite the yelling and agreeing that parenting is not for the faint of hear, parenthood is great.
So what has been happening since Titus has come along? (He takes a lot of time therefore blogging gets pushed to the side).
-The weather is getting nicer in Chicago hence we are opening our windows...only to shut them because of random people smoking outside our apartment.
-My brother just turned 16. Remember when you could not wait to be 16, then 18, then 21? Now what age do you really get to look forwards to?
-On my first bike ride to work I stopped at a local "mom-n-pops greasy spoon" diner just a mile from Chicago's downtown where the waitress called everyone "honey." The food was awesome. Speaking of awesome food a friend took me to a restaurant that converted a mechanic's garage into a Mexican restaurant that served the best tacos I have ever had (and now will not ever be able to eat at Taco Bell again) while playing oldies on a record player.
-On my second bike ride to work I almost was hit by a woman turning right on a red while I had a green light...life is fragile.
-My NCAA bracket is busted, but I am okay with that because I love to see the underdogs win. I think I root for underdogs because there is something that I identify with as Jesus preached and served the lowercase people, not the powerful.
-I went to a bachelor party of a friend where we raced go-carts that went up to 35 miles per hour. It was pretty awesome as I felt like a kid again, yet I was going over 25 mph.
-Speaking of this friend, his wedding was last weekend and I was amazed at how the small Church I attend was able to come together to accommodate a large crowd to allow the wedding to go smoothly. Reminds me of an answer CS Lewis gave to the question: “Is attendance at a place of worship or membership with a Christian community necessary to a Christian way of life?”
Lewis answered:
“My own experience is that when I first became a Christian, about fourteen years ago, I thought that I could do it on my own, by retiring to my rooms and reading theology, and I wouldn’t go to the churches and Gospel Halls; and then later I found that it was the only way of flying your flag; and, of course, I found that this meant being a target. It is extraordinary how inconvenient to your family it becomes for you to get up early to go to Church. It doesn’t matter so much if you get up early for anything else, but if you get up early to go to Church it’s very selfish of you and you upset the house. If there is anything in the teaching of the New Testament which is in the nature of a command, it is that you are obliged to take the Sacrament, and you can’t do it without going to Church. I disliked very much their hymns, which I considered to be fifth-rate poems set to sixth-rate music. But as I went on I saw the great merit of it. I came up against different people of quite different outlooks and different education, and then gradually my conceit just began peeling off. I realized that the hymns (which were just sixth-rate music) were, nevertheless, being sung with devotion and benefit by an old saint in elastic-side boots in the opposite pew, and then you realize that you aren’t fit to clean those boots. It gets you out of your solitary conceit."

Have a happy Easter!