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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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!
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I'd have to guess about the first overnighter. I have absolutely no idea how old DS would have been, likely under a year the first time he stayed overnight at Grandpa and Grandmas without us. DD was around 6 months old, shortly after I quit breastfeeding her.
The first time I left my kids for 2.5 weeks, was last year when we went on our Great American Road Trip. But they were 17 and 19 by that time!
Alexander's first overnight was with my sister and brother-in-law -- I'm pretty sure he was well over one, perhaps two. We've only left him for one weekend -- last year when we went to Walt Disney World to celebrate our 10th anniversary. Grandma came over to stay with him here at our house. Other than that, he's had a couple of other overnights with his Aunt Kimmy and Uncle Chad. We do have a neighbor girl who has babysat Alexander twice now while we took in a movie, too.
I start missing him a lot after a day. I can't imagine being away more than that. Which is why he travels everywhere with us.
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I don't remember the first sitter, but we left DD with my DMIL for an over nigth when she was 6 months old. I was still nursing so 24 hours was pushing it. My ex and I went about 2 hours south for a U of I football game and stayed overnight coming back the next day. I was blessed with many people I could leave my kids with when they were growing up. Both my parents and my in-laws encouraged overnight visits. There were also many uncles and aunts on both sides that we would trade sitting with or who just enjoyed spending time with their neice and nephew. I also found the perfect young sitter when my DD was 6 months old. She was 16 at the time and sat for my kids for years. When I went back to school full time she became their summer nanny and even lived with us for 2 summers after her parents moved out of state. She now has 3 little girls and is expecting baby 4 in July. Now I babysit for them!
I was very lucky in that I had 4 sisters who lived close by who were like extra mothers to my kids. But besides my sisters, we did leave 2 DD's (1 and 2 years old) with friends of ours overnight so DH and I could attend one of my sister's weddings. The couple we left the kids with had been friends of ours since HS and our families did alot together. They had the same situation and needed a sitter when her brother got married, so we had their kids stay overnight with us a month later.
We've always been at least 600 miles from family, so the overnight thing is really tough. I think the first (and only?) time we've left DD overnight was when I drove from CT to Cleveland and left her with my inlaws so I could come here and go househunting with DH (he'd been working here in MN a month).
DS was only 3 months old when the ex and I took a long weekend away together. After that it was a long weekend every year. Last year was the first in 4 years that I actually took DS with me on my birthday trip I give to myself.
My DM would take DD about 2 days after she was born. And then keep her overnight. She claimed I needed rest!! But I think just want DD around she was the first grandchild she got to be with. Now since Mom has died Dad keeps her at least one night a weekend and usually is with her every night of the week. He has dinner with us and spends time with DD. I have always said that Dad would have died right after Mom if DD wasn't here. I believe she is the only reason that he never gave up. Mom died at 45, Dad was 46. I don't think he ever let go out DD that first week. She was 3 at the time and now is 11
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