num_pages: 192
description: Theres nothing like adoption to make a grown man cry. Repeatedly. In this humorous and honest memoir Ted Kluckfather writer and sports fandetails 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 Klucks first international adoption the adoption of his son Tristan. He includes stories In the second part of his memoirthe story of Klucks second international adoptionnew struggles arise causing Ted to process with his In each section of Teds memoir you will feel deeply laugh out loud and learn. Whether youre an adoptive parent seeking to be an adoptive parent or unmarried you will enjoy and appreciate Teds humorous and honest stories of his adventures in adoptive fatherhood. While Hello I Love You is about the stories of two adoptionsin 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 on The Gospel Coalition An Excerpt from the Books This book began as a journalsome 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 Im addressing Tristan directly while the second half is a more straightforward narrative of Dimas adoption. Theyre both love letters to my boys and the whole thing is a love letter to Kristin my wife. Youll also notice lots of frank often sarcastic prose about cultural differencesusually 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). Theres also some tough content regarding infertility. If this is something youve struggled with in your marriage I hope this chapter encourages you and I hope you feel less alone in your struggle. If youve been blessed with biological children please dont feel guilty for having them or in any way judged or made fun of by the observations in that chapter (see It not being you but me). Finally the book contains lots of stories of Gods faithfulnessstories that we thought were too meaningful not to be told. Little piles of stones along the way that remind us of Gods goodness love and faithfulness. We hope that youll 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 agencys 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. 
language: English
title: Hello, I Love You: Adventures in Adoptive Fatherhood
publisher: Moody Publishers