Life and times of a father in America

Today my boss to us out to lunch and we visiting a local sushi bar. Brand new experience for me, and quite pleasurable. We sat at a bar kinda table that wrapped around the main floor. In front of us was a track that kept circling with little plates of food. Each plate was color coded and the price per plate was set accordingly. Grab what you want and eat. When you are done the server tallies up the plates and charges you. http://sushigoround-lacey.com/ I have had a few tastes of sushi here and there at the all you can eat Chinese buttets, but this was my first complete sushi meal. I liked it and would love to go back.

Yesterday was a good day, yet one I had been dreading at work. My boss is out of town, in Denver at our national corporate offce for the week. This meant that I had to lead the weekly conference call. UGH! I'm a doer not a leader, yet it is part of my job. Rodney made it to the Denver office in time to dial in an listen to the call, but remained mostly in the background. About half way through the call a particularly touchy question came up. I did hear Rodney begin to answer, even as I spoke up. After I had my say I received and email he had sent from this blackberry "good job". This topic we had not had a chance to discuss in detail together so I was speaking from my own personal view point as if it was our teams policy. Thankfully he agreed with what I said. Two more conference calls this week, both tomorrow and Thursday. They look to be quite well attended with a lot of people I haven't had a lot of contact with. Your good thoughts and prayers will be app...

Not really an update, just some thoughts that have been rolling around in my head. Melody recently asked a question in her blog that has started me thinking. Melody asked about "Christians" who don't live up to the written laws in the bible. The response touched on the topics of sin vs uncleanliness and how they apply to us as gentiles. I believe that there are defined sins that apply to everyone. From day one as a Christian we need to know that "You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind. And you must love your neighbor as yourself". This is the basis of obedience to God. This is God's law - Love. I also believe that there are personal sins. These are things that God brings to your personal attention, makes known to you that this particular thing is wrong, and you are now held accountable to obey this commandment. Many Christians come from a lifestyle that is not looked upon as hol...

Samuel Dean Malakowski. Samuel was Harmony's choice. She really wanted a biblical name for our son, and something that could be shortened without having to a cutsie name. Dean was my father's first name. It wasn't a requirement to name Sam after my father, but Samuel Dean does have a nice ring to it. Evelyn Rose Malakowski. Evelyn was a group choice. We stuggled for a while to come up with a name we would both like. Evelyn, like Samuel, can be shortened without having to become a cutsie name. Rose is a name I've been in love with for a very long time and Evelyn Rose also rolls off the tongue. Malakowski is my family name, or surname. According to my research Malakowski is a common Polish name which means "Son of Malak." Interestingly enough, we can trace our family directly to the Malak's in Holland. Historical records show that the original Malakowski, Jan Malakowski, came to American from Russia. Because of this there is a family debate as to...

This chapter of my life was, at the time the greatest and most frustrating, and now, one of the most difficult to talk about. In the last post I mentioned a time when I broke a young woman's heart. Where to begin. In 2nd grade, or more accurately, the 2nd grade Sunday School class, I first met Roxanne Stokley. Her mother, a single mom, brought her 2 daughters to church that day. Roxanne is virtually the same age as me. The first time I met her she got sick in class and vomited. I remember me and a friend going into childhood panic mode to get on top of a table to get away from the puddle. The family chose our church, the Hillsboro Assembly of God, as thier home church and due to the age similarity, I spent a lot of time with Roxanne. At least on Sunday's. Wednesday night was "family night". The adults had a little worship service of their own. The girls had Missionettes, kinda a christian girls scouts if you will, and the boys had Royal Rangers, a boy scout like club ...

I'm not a blogger, but I love to follow the blogs of my family. On the other hand I am a Facebook addict. That being said, I'm gonna try to begin updating this blog on occasion. I am married, turning 38 this November, and have two wonderful kids. Samuel turns 4 in January and Evelyn turns 2 in September. They are currently home schooled by their mother for pre-school level learning, and showing amazingly different learning styles. I know Harmony desires to be a stay home mom and continue their home school education, but final judgement is being held off until they are ready for kindergarten. I have been married to Harmony Dawn (Walker) Malakowski since September 21, 1996, and these have been the happiest years of my life that I can remember. Many of my earliest memories all surround my father, Dean Paul Malakowski. He went to be with our Lord in December, 1982. I was 11 years old. My whole life he was sick, struggling with brain tumors. Multiple surgeries to remove th...