# @iheartveggies on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DCt2H22xw1F
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/25074062-iheartveggies-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-11-23T13:56:14.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Liz Thomson | Food Blogger (@iheartveggies) — https://gondola.cc/iheartveggies

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It’s National Adoption Day! ❤️ We adopted our son from foster care in January 2023 and I’m so incredibly grateful to be his mom. Adoption will always come with complex feelings and while there is grief and loss in the process, there is also so much joy. ❤️
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This is just one of the ways that foster care has changed our world in a million ways. If you know me, you know there’s nothing I love more than talking about what you can do to help kids who are experiencing foster care.

Here are of my favorite local organizations that I’ve worked with to serve kids in care:
vakidsbelong
worthdays
villagegreenrva 
for_richmond 

There are approximately 117,000 kids in foster care waiting to be adopted. If you ever have questions about foster care or adoption, shoot me a DM! I’d love to chat. I didn’t grow up dreaming of becoming a foster parent or adopting, but now I can’t imagine life any other way. 

📸 sandyswaggerjones 

#nationaladoptionday #nationaladoptionmonth #fostercare #fosterparents

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fostercare, nationaladoptionmonth, fosterparents, nationaladoptionday

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