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There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
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If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
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Friday, Friday, Friday.....what you doing this week-end?
Yes Friday has come again!
First of all...........is anyone out there wearing Disney today???
Secondly - do you have big plans for the week-end?
I have on Mickey earrings, watch and necklace, as well as a Mickey polo shirt and Mickey crocs! (Friday is jeans day at school. I decided to wear Mickey with my jeans!)
This week-end we have a wedding 3 hours away. Dh is not happy about that one!
We will drive down early tomorrow morning and drive home late tomorrow night!
This next week is my week off from work - so I will be getting all of our items ready for our garage sale next week-end.
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99% of the time, I have something Disney on. Right now it's my Mickey Mouse necklace.
This weekend is a work weekend -- cleaning out the garage and basement. Eeewww! But it's the last weekend DS#1 Luke and DS#2 Chat can join in on the fun!
We have to keep moving...moving...moving on Saturday! Football is Sunday!
I'm wearing my Mickey Mouse watch. But alas, I lost one of my Mickey Mouse earrings in Dallas while evacuated. Can't seem to find it.
This weekend - going to Nacogdoches to help Travis "clean" his condo and then to Lufkin to help my Mom with errands and some general housework. Hopefully by Monday, I can return to work in Beaumont.
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The college I interviewed with, Stephen F. Austin, called me yesterday and due to Hurricane Ike they are a few days behind in interviewing, but they would call me next week to let me know their decision. Keep your fingers crossed!!
DJ has his first popcorn Show and Sell for Cub Scouts this weekend. We're manning the table for two hours tomorrow afternoon. So tomorrow morning, I'm sewing the patches on my new Den Leader uniform shirt. I finally found one that fits today! Those patches are some slippery little suckers! Sunday, we're selling more Cub Scout popcorn.
Nothing Disney on at the moment, although before I left for work this afternoon I was wearing my Pooh PJs.
Today I am working evening shift. It is fairly quiet so I hope to study the rest of the night. Tomorrow I have a quilting workshop in the morning at a local quilt shop. This workshop is once a month, and I do it with my mom. Afterwards I am going with my mom to a wedding in outstate Minnesota. It is one of her cousin's children getting married, so there will be lots of relatives there that we haven't seen in a long time. Sunday I will probably study in the morning before I go to work in the evening.
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My Disney wear - just my Mickey watch.
Weekend plans - This is my weekend to work - blah! But I am cutting out early on Sunday and DH and our 2 DD's are driving to Baltimore for the Ravens/Browns game! At last something fun to do!!!
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A Fairy Godmother wannabe -
Look what a little Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo can do!
No Disney today, but I'll be wearing my "I have a degree in being Grumpy" shirt tomorrow and it will most definitely be T-R-U-E. I'm working my last scrapbook show and it STINKS. We'll pack up at 5pm and drive to Atlanta where I am taking DDs to American Girl there for the youngest's early birthday. Sunday night, we'll head back north to get home on Monday. I've also got a paper due on Monday that I'm trying to finish between all the travel-setup-nonselling. I'm hoping Sunday is a great day...the three of us really need one before getting back home to the nitty gritty of what has to come next.
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: for the first time this week I am not wear anything Disney related
So tomorrow morning, I'm sewing the patches on my new Den Leader uniform shirt. I finally found one that fits today! 
We'll pack up at 5pm and drive to Atlanta where I am taking DDs to American Girl there for the youngest's early birthday. Sunday night, we'll head back north to get home on Monday. I've also got a paper due on Monday that I'm trying to finish between all the travel-setup-nonselling. I'm hoping Sunday is a great day...the three of us really need one before getting back home to the nitty gritty of what has to come next.
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