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Paul & Malisa are hopeful adoptive parents from Georgia waiting to adopt a baby.

If you are pregnant and considering placing your child for adoption, please read the following Dear Birthmother Letter.

Dear Friends: Thanks for considering our profile and letting us share some of our thoughts with you. This must be an overwhelming time for you and we admire your ability to face it with courage and strength. We understand that you love your child deeply and are so appreciative of your courage to consider placing your child for adoption. Our family has been blessed through adoption before; Paul’s brother has 4 adopted daughters whom we love dearly.

We have wanted a family for years. We have enjoyed caring for Paul’s nieces and nephew and Malisa’s cousins. When we were first married in 1995 we worked 24 hour weekend shifts in a child abuse crisis center. This enabled us to work as a team with each other and with the children. We finally were blessed with a chance to apply our ‘practice’ at being parents, when we had a daughter in 2002 who is the love of our life. We want to expand our family, share our love, and enjoy the love we have felt in being parents the past 5 years again. We would like to introduce ourselves to you and give you a glimpse of what our life is like.

We love to travel, both foreign and domestic, and everything that goes along with it. Some of our favorite trips have been to Canada, Europe, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii. Malisa likes to get involved in the details for the trip: the shopping, the research, the photography—the whole enchilada. Paul likes to tease her that she makes a big deal out of every trip, but she likes to think of herself as being prepared. She’s a planner & likes to think things through. Paul loves to just throw some clothes in a suitcase and take off on a trip. We enjoy the thrill of going somewhere new and learning about the history and culture.

We are active in our church and Paul spent 2 years as a volunteer missionary in France. In our congregation, Malisa organizes help—dinners, visits, and rides--for those who are sick, shut-in or otherwise need a helping hand. This is a great volunteer role for her given her planning skills and caring nature. Paul is a leader in the church youth group and enjoys teaching them skills for life and helping them through the challenging and important decisions that teens face.

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Paul I am so excited about having another child. Isabella has been such a joy to my life. Each day, no matter if I have a good or bad day at work or if I sit in traffic or not, my mood is lifted when I get a big hug and excited yell of “Daddy’s home!” when I walk in the door. As I have tried to express to newly married friends how much I enjoy being a parent and what joy they will receive when they become parents, I have found it is incredibly difficult to do it justice. It brings so much more joy than all my success at work, in sports or in anything else.

I am an active participator—I like to be in on the fun. Watching sports is ok, but I really enjoy playing sports. I love playing volleyball, basketball, football, water-skiing, and wake-boarding. I am very driven and ambitious—anything I try to do, I try to do my very best and I expect a lot from myself. I work very hard to provide for my family. My father never received a college degree and had to work very hard to provide for his 5 children. He taught us the importance of hard work and education. I worked very hard to get good grades in high school and in college and was able to get my masters degree from Harvard University. This has allowed me to provide for my family. I love business and ever since I was a teenager, I have loved reading about businesses and entrepreneurs. I have started and sold 2 companies and been in 2 other start-ups. I plan on owning my own business again.

Growing up, both my father and mother are very outgoing and we often had friends over to our house. I loved that social interaction and want that same feeling in my home. I am the youngest of 3 girls and 2 boys and our family was very active—we worked in the yard and on the house, played basketball and water-skied together as a family.

Malisa is a wonderful woman. I am so lucky to have her as my wife. She takes being a mother more seriously than anyone I know of and wants to be the best mother ever. She always seems to know exactly what our daughter needs, when to be firm and when to be flexible. It comes very naturally to her, which lets me breathe a sigh of relief that one of us always knows what we’re doing. She is so thoughtful and kind, always asking, ‘what would that person want or need?’ I like to tease her that she packs too much stuff for trips, especially road trips, but it never fails that when we’re on the road we always have exactly what we need…everything from the best road music to our favorite snacks. She is the perfect mother.

Malisa I am thrilled to be adding another child to our family. I have felt for a long time that our family is not yet complete. Isabella asks me several times a week when she will have a brother or sister. I love children and I truly cherish my role as mother so much. I think it’s the most important thing I could be doing and I wouldn’t trade it for anything else. I feel so fortunate that I am able to stay home with my children full time and witness all of their first discoveries and special moments. I will never put anything in front of doing what’s best for my children. My life focus is making sure my children learn to be happy, have experiences they need to have to be wise, and know that they are loved and supported so they are confident enough to try things in life.

I like to keep busy and often have several things going on at one time. I love to learn and often when something captures my interest I will spend every spare moment researching and acquiring new knowledge on the topic. I’ll admit I can be a little obsessive that way. Whether it’s cooking, photography, traveling, snorkeling, crafting, animals or children I enjoy finding out all I can usually through reading and then trying out my new found information. We spend a lot of time reading together as a family. We have just been getting into chapter books this summer with our daughter and we love it. We are currently reading anything about horses and the “Little House on the Prairie” series. We hope our children will continue to learn and explore their world through reading. Our family loves to spend time together in the water—pool, lake or ocean—and my favorite activities there are to swim and snorkel. One of my great memories is helping Paul teach our daughter to water-ski last summer.

My family is very close. I have one younger brother and we have always been really good friends, even when we were younger. My brother and I speak on the phone almost everyday even though he lives 3,000 miles away. We have a good time discussing everyday happenings and observations. My brother and his wife are also very involved with our daughter, almost everyday they are able to talk on the phone to get her view on the world that day. They are so excited about having another niece or nephew to spoil in our family. They are a fabulous aunt and uncle and we love spending as much time as we can with them during the holidays and vacations. My parents live about 2 miles away from us and we not only sit by them at church most Sundays but also see them several times a week. They baby-sit, attend Isabella’s soccer games and are very supportive grandparents. It’s a wonderful opportunity for a grandchild to have grandparents so close. One of our favorite memories is a family trip to Hawaii with my parents, my brother and his wife’s family. We had a blast, 14 people, 2 vans and 2 weeks in paradise. To top it all off, we’re all still talking to each other!

Paul is the funniest guy I know. You have to know that holidays are very important to me. I make a huge deal out of every holiday, and traditions come by the truckload in a relationship with me. A few years ago Paul decided he wanted to contribute something fun to our holiday traditions as well. So, a couple of days before Christmas, he went out and bought a full Santa suit. Then on Christmas morning we let our then 2 year old daughter ‘catch’ Santa filling the stockings at the fireplace. He had a bag with a few presents in it for her and disguised his voice while she sat on his lap and told him how she had behaved and what was on her wish list. We have continued to do this every year. He is also a great husband and amazing role model for our daughter. One of the first things that impressed me about Paul when we met was his level of honesty, dedication and ambition. He is truly a ‘good’ person living up to a very high personal standard. This is something I both admire and appreciate in him. He is a tender, caring husband and a very loving father. He is so excited to add another baby to our family, he loves children so much.

We met at a party in college. Malisa asked Paul to dance and the rest is one silly moment after another. We dated for a couple of years before marriage. We have a great friendship and truly enjoy one another’s company. We are an active couple and love to spend our time doing things together. We enjoy visiting the aquarium, zoo, and parks. We have always been animal lovers, but have found a renewed interest through our daughter’s eyes. On the weekends we have fun playing soccer, flying kites, feeding the ducks or going on some other adventure. We love listening to music, and whenever possible have music playing in our home or in the car. We really enjoy playing board games and watching movies as a family. Family time is a top priority for us. We love new experiences and making new friends.

We look forward to teaching your child about how they came into our family and the great gift of love their birth-parents gave them. We would love to exchange pictures, letters and gifts with you so you can see how your child develops and grows. We’re excited to get to know you and have a relationship that you are comfortable with to give your child the best understanding of the legacy of love they have received from their birth parents and us. We will provide your child a home full of laughter, encouragement, and accomplishment. We pray for you and your child.

All our love,


Paul, Malisa and Isabella


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