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As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
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.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
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.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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11-22-2003, 09:21 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: North Dakota aka frozen wastelands
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My dh first big time \"Overprotective Daddy\" heart attack moment
Took the kids to the mall today. Needed to get 12 year old daughter w/body of 16 year old new pairs of LOOSE jeans!LOL!!
First off, I have noticed a new pack of "animals" that like to silently lurk near the entrances of dressing rooms; pubescent and pre-pubescent boys!LOL!!
Found 2 pair of jeans(on sale too!LOL!!) for daughter. Husband and son are outside JcPenny's people watching. Daughter and I are walking out of store into main mall, when 3 teenage boys whip their heads around and stare at her as she is walking away(totally oblivious, as she isnt really interested much in boys yet).
I am a bit in shock and when I look up I see a man w/eyeballs BULGING out of their sockets, blue in face and clutching his chest!LOL!! Yes, first time daddy noticed MUCH OLDER boys looking his beloved princess up and down.
When we got home, he snatched her 2nd grade picture off the wall and held it up sternly saying "THIS is how I will ALWAYS see Brookie!!!"
Long hard road ahead I think!LOL!!
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11-22-2003, 10:05 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Richardson, TX
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Re: My dh first big time \"Overprotective Daddy\" heart attack moment
I think you're in for a very difficult teen years. I know lots of fathers just like him and it's always interesting when those sweet little girls become interested in those "filthy" boys. Good luck to Brookie, you and she will need lots of patience. He's going to be difficult. 
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11-23-2003, 03:13 AM
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Community Rank: Legend VIP 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Maidstone, Kent, UK
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Re: My dh first big time \"Overprotective Daddy\" heart attack moment
That made me smile - thanks for sharing that.
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11-23-2003, 06:32 AM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Re: My dh first big time \"Overprotective Daddy\" heart attack moment
God help the young man who attempts to date my daughter.   |
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11-23-2003, 08:55 AM
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Community Rank: Navigator 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Tioga County, PA
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Re: My dh first big time \"Overprotective Daddy\" heart attack moment
I'm so glad we had boys. I still remember the look on my Dad's face when we saw me in my wedding dress for the first time. I tried it on so he could see it a couple of weeks before the wedding. I think that's when he knew I was all grown up.
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11-23-2003, 10:22 AM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
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Re: My dh first big time \"Overprotective Daddy\" heart attack moment
<font color="0066cc">LOL Kristie! I don't think that DH has seen boys notice DD yet. DD is now 14 and if I may say so, she's pretty cute. I'm not sure that she notices all the boys who get whiplash when we're walking through the mall together, but I sure do!  And it's not me that's giving those boys whiplash! 
We went to the Boo at the Zoo this fall and the guy at the hot chocolate/mini donut stand really checked her out when we were getting our mini donuts! When we left I mentioned it to her and she hadn't noticed but suddenly she wanted a cup of hot chocolate to wash down her donuts.  </font> |
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11-23-2003, 12:57 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: San Diego, Ca
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Re: My dh first big time \"Overprotective Daddy\" heart attack moment
<font color="green">Mrs. M!
I hope he doesn't act like my father and uncles did once we girls got up to the 'whiplash' age.
Their Dad, my grandfather had a double barreled shotgun that he would use to go hunting and to explain the rules of dating for his 2 daughters in West Virginia. 12 kids in all in the family and my Dad was the oldest by 7 years.
When grandpa died my dad got it and once I began to date he enacted the same ritual that his dad did. He would meet the boy at the front door, give him the rules, check his watch, check and wind my watch and tell him what to expect if his precious daughter wasn't in the house before or at the appointed hour. All the while this unloaded (although the boy didn't know it) shotgun was leaned up against the wall next to his favorite recliner which was strategically moved from the family room to right next to the front door. OUTSIDE!
Once I got older and was married that shotgun got passed down to the next uncle with a girl and so on until we were all of age when it came home to my Dad and I've already got dibs on it later in life.
Needless to say, none of the girls in our family had ANY children out of wedlock in this navy town.
Yep, I had a strange upbringing, but I'm grateful for their guidance and wisdom and I love them for wanting to keep me safe.
Just tell Mr. Maup to use his 'angry' eyes instead of the solution my family took. </font>
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11-23-2003, 01:29 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: North Dakota aka frozen wastelands
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Re: My dh first big time \"Overprotective Daddy\" heart attack moment
A LOOONG time ago, my husband was working an air show w/several good friends. As we came accross the group(we wives and children) we had them pose for a "scary men" picture in their uniforms, raybans and M-16 held up against their chests. The were all VERY big men, so it was quite a formadible picture.
Several years ago a friend mentioned that we would have to deal w/alot of boys when Brooke got older. My husband said he was going to have that picture blown up into giant size and put it next to the front door w/a sign to all incomming boys saying "im an expert marksman, how bout you?".
Fathers!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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11-24-2003, 10:15 AM
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Community Rank: Traveler
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: San Diego, Ca
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Re: My dh first big time \"Overprotective Daddy\" heart attack moment
<font color="green">I like the way your husband thinks! lol </font>
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11-24-2003, 11:28 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Jun 2003
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Re: My dh first big time \"Overprotective Daddy\" heart attack moment
Your poor DH!  I hear it only gets harder from here.
As the mom to one of those potential "animals", or "filthy boys", I promise that we are doing our very best to raise our son to be respectful and gentlemanly. |
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11-24-2003, 11:34 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: North Dakota aka frozen wastelands
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Re: My dh first big time \"Overprotective Daddy\" heart attack moment
I told my dh that we would be sure that our son watched all of this with open eyes, as this is what he could expect from his girl's daddy!LOL!!
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