Not A Mama Yet

Yesterday was Mother’s Day, so I thought today would be a perfect day to share Episode 9 of the podcast featuring Kira Cook.  My cousin is a close friend of Kira’s so when she let me know that Kira and her husband were fostering to adopt, I was interested to speak with her and learn more about that process.  Adopting has always been something I have thought about doing one day.  Our global population is growing at such a rate that we aren’t totally sure how we are going to feed the number of people projected to live on this planet in the coming decades.  So I always think about the children who are already alive whose parents are unable to raise them and are in need of finding a loving home they can grow up in and have a brighter future as a result.  Adoption is a very expensive process though, so a lot of people are unable to even explore that as an option for their family unless they can afford to.  Fostering to adopt might not come with a financial cost, but the emotional toll