Hello, I love you - Ted Kluck

There's nothing like adoption to make a grown man cry.
Repeatedly.

In this humorous and honest memoir,
Ted Kluck-father, writer, and sports fan-details his adoption of his
two sons from Ukraine. While not always self-flattering, his complaints and struggles
will provoke laughter, some fear, and self-examination.

In the first part
of his memoir, Ted reveals the chaos the Kluck's first international adoption,
the adoption of his son Tristan. He includes stories of:

• Loads of paperwork,
  inspections, and prayer in the United States
• Traveling to Ukraine with tens
  of thousands of dollars in cash tucked in his belt
• Unexpected waits
• Consuming
  uncountable numbers of Snickers bars and soda
• Sickness while still in Ukraine
  
• Letters written to his soon-to-be son
• God's unending faithfulness
  and reflections on His adoption of believers

In the second part of his
memoir-the story of Kluck's second international adoption-new
struggles arise, causing Ted to process with his readers:

• Infertility-in
  a church full of pregnant women and large families
• Struggling in silence
• Travel,
  again
• Missing the comfort of the United States
• A small amount of
  electrocution-the result of foreign electrical engineering
• Spiritual
  depression and struggle to provide for his family
• Complaint and trusting
  that God's provision is sufficient
• The blessing of the body of Christ

In
each section of Ted's memoir, you will feel deeply, laugh out loud, and learn.
Whether you're an adoptive parent, seeking to be an adoptive parent, or unmarried,
you will enjoy and appreciate Ted's humorous and honest stories of his adventures
in adoptive fatherhood.

"While Hello, I Love You is about
the stories of two adoptions,in reality, the stories serve to show the trustworthiness
of God despite impossible circumstances and the need to find contentment in his
providential care."

-Book review by John Starke onThe
Gospel Coalition

An Excerpt from the Book's Introduction:

This book began as a journal-some spiral-bound notebooks that came with me
to Ukraine the first time, and which contained letters that I wrote to Tristan during
the experience. In the first half of the book, it reads like I'm addressing
Tristan directly, while the second half is a more straightforward narrative of Dima's
adoption. They're both love letters to my boys, and the whole thing is a love
letter to Kristin, my wife.

You'll also notice lots of frank, often sarcastic prose about cultural differences-usually
with the author as the punch line, as it was my inability to deal with these differences
that provided a lot of humor (in retrospect) and anger (at the time).

There's also some tough content regarding infertility. If this is something
you've struggled with in your marriage, I hope this chapter encourages you,
and I hope you feel less alone in your struggle. If you've been blessed with
biological children, please don't feel guilty for having them, or in any way
judged or made fun of by the observations in that chapter (see also: It not being
you, but me).

Finally, the book contains lots of stories of God's faithfulness-stories
that we thought were too meaningful not to be told. Little "piles of stones"
along the way that remind us of God's goodness, love, and faithfulness. We
hope that you'll read them and not only be entertained, but be motivated to
think of Christ and our adoption as His sons and daughters. It is only the love
of Christ, and our hope in Him, that got us through the first, the most difficult
adoption in the history of our agency's work with Ukraine, then infertility,
and finally a second adoption. And it was these adoptions, more than any other events
or events in our lives, that truly taught us to find our peace, comfort, and identity
in Christ.