Adoption is a complicated tapestry woven together with strands of joy, sorrow, love, fear, excitement, grief, and more. While experiencing the journey, it’s easy to focus on the individual strands, but at the end of the story, a big, beautiful tapestry awaits. Our adoption journey officially began in December of 2019, but our desire to provide a loving home to a child or children began many years before that. Adoption had been important to Brendon and me for years as both of our families have been blessed by adoption. We knew that the process was very expensive, and before we officially began the process in 2019, we wanted to make sure that we were financially stable and had saved up enough to be prepared if things were to move quickly. Little did we know how slowly the process would move for us…