On May 26, 2020, the adoption agency we had been going through our application process with, Adoption by Choice, Alberta’s longest-running and first licensed adoption agency in the province (operating for more than 30 years), emailed applicants—Albertans who so desperately wanted to have children—to let them know that the agency was shutting down. This is not what we thought our next update would be in our infertility / adoption journey, but here’s what happened and what we plan to do next.