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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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!
Welcome! We're happy you've found the PassPorter Community -- the friendliest place to plan your vacation to Walt Disney World, Disney Cruise Line, Disneyland, and the world in general! You are now viewing the PassPorter Message Board Community as a guest, which gives you limited access. As our guest, feel free to browse our messages by selecting the forum you want to visit from the list below.
To post messages and ask questions, join our FREE community today and you'll get access to tools and resources not available to guests, such as our vacation countown timers, "living" avatars, private messaging system, database searches, downloads, and a special PassPorter discount code. Registration is fast, simple, and completely free. Just click the Join Our Community link.
If you think you've already joined, log in below now. If you don't remember your member name or password, please visit our Member Name and Password Recovery page. You are also welcome to contact us.
I recently read an article in "Annie's Mailbox" (used to be Anne Landers before she died - I think her DDs took over or something like that).
A lady was upset because her son's girlfriend's DD had gone from calling her "grandma" to "Grandma Kay" - and she thought this was done by the girlfriend to put a wedge between Kay and the little girl.
So, I started thinking: When I was little, and even now, my grandparents were "grandma/grandpa (Last name)". Even when my paternal grandmother remarried after grandpa died, she was then "Grandma (new last name)" and still is (although her new husband who she eventually divorced was and remains "Bill").
My children call my parents and step-mom and DH's step-mom by "grandma/grandpa (first name)" as in "Grandpa Tommy" (my dad's legal name - no, it's not Thomas).
They call DH's dad (and mom before she died or when they refer to her) "Grandpa/grandma (Last name)". And they call my grandparents (only one left) the same thing I call them, and they call his grandmother (only grandparent alive when I met him) "grandma (last name)".
DH's sisters' kids all call his dad (their grandfather) Pawpaw, and his mom (again, while alive and when they talk about her) Naynee. DH's step-mother is "Grandma (first name)", and his grandmother is Granny.
DH and I call each other's grandparents "Grandma (last name)"
Oh - DH's grandchildren call me "Nice Grandma"! They call their mother's mother "Mean Grandma" and their father's mother "Evil Grandma". I've tried to get them to call me "Grandma Teresa" or even "Granny Reesa" (which is what DD Samantha's best friend's kids called me).
My mom's mom was my Nana . . . dad's mom was Granny . . . dad's dad was Grandpa Ray.
My Grandpa Bob is the only grandparent still alive. He divorced my Nana long before I was born and remarried. I grew up calling his new wife (at his insistance) Grandma <her first name> but as I got older, they stopped referring to her as "Grandma" (cards were signed "From Grandpa Bob and <her name>").
DH's mom's parents died long before he and I married but he called them Grandma and Grandpa <last name> . . . his dad's mom is just Grandma and dad's dad was Grandpa.
My kids call my parents Grammie and Poppa and DH's parents are Grandma and Grandpa. Since our DD was the first of their grandchildren, our parents picked what they would prefer to be called and that's what we taught the kids to say when they started to talk. Our nephew (DH's brother's son) has refused to call DH's parents Grandma and Grandpa since day one, so he calls them Pawpaw and Gigi.
My maternal grandparents are just Grandma and Grandpa and always have been, as they have been the only set of grandparents really in our lives and very close to us. My great grandparents (Grandma's parents) are Great Grandma and Great Grandpa as they were just as close as grandparents. They have since passed (Great Grandma a few months ago and Great Grandpa 10 years ago) and I miss them very much.
My paternal grandparents are Grandma Loretta and Grandpa Steve. I never knew Grandma Loretta as she died of leukemia when my dad was 13, but I know she was a wonderful woman and I very much wish I knew her. Grandpa Steve rather distanced himself from the family once his six children had left the house. He died 4 or so years ago, so he was not as close and I had only met him a few times.
This is a great and very interesting thread! Thank you for starting it!
__________________
Amanda =)
Living out a childhood dream during my summer 2015 trip to WDW. Is it time to go back yet?
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." –Walt Disney
My French grandmother was Grandmere and her husband was Grandpa, as he was English. I only ever had one grandfather, as my mum's dad died before I was even born. My other grandmother was Granny, so it was easy to distinguish between them.
I always called my mother's mother Nana (DS now calls my Mom Nana). My mother's father died well before I was born. I always called my father's parents Grandma and Grandpa.
My mom's mom was "Nana" to my generation and "Nana Nana" to her 15 great grandkids. My dad's mom was "grandma" both my grandfathers died when I was real young so I'm not sure.
We call my mom "Nana" for our DD and my mom's new husband is "Grumpa" cuz he's always grumpy
I never really knew my grandparents, Teresa, but my kids call Muffin's parents Poppy and Grandma and they call my dad Grandpa Jack. They used to call my mom Grandmom.
Logan calls me Mimi, which I !! He calls Muffin Mac and Cheese. I think he was supposed to call him just Mac, but we like Mac and Cheese better.
Great question. The bottom line is, I don't care what he calls me as long as he visits often!
Registered Message Board Members save 30% off PassPorter guidebooks! When you register you'll have access to a discount coupon good for 30% off the list price of PassPorter books in our online store.
My mom's side it was Nana and Papa
My dad's side it was Grandma and Grandpa
My mom is Nana or Nanny...but my DGD's call her Mama Nana (we see her alot and the little girls thought it was funny when I call her mom so they combined her name
DH' mom was called different by each family....Gram, Nan, Nina but we called her Nana......
And I'm Nana
For me: On my dad's side I had - granny and grandaddy. On my mom's side I called them- Granny June and Grandaddy. My step mom's parents were called MeMaw and PawPaw.
For my kids: They call my mom granny and my dad gets called both gradaddy and pawpaw. They call their dad's parents mawmaw and pawpaw. They call my step-mom Nana.
Registered Message Board Members save 30% off PassPorter guidebooks! When you register you'll have access to a discount coupon good for 30% off the list price of PassPorter books in our online store.
Funny post. On my Fathers side we had Mam-Mam and Nanny. One was my GreatGM the other my Fathers Mother. On my Mothers side it was Mom Mom and Pop Pop.
My kids called my parents Sonya Mom Mom and Sonya Pop Pop they had a dog Sonya. and their other GP were Cherry Mom Mom and Cherry Pop Pop because they had a cherry tree.
Our Grandkids call us Mom Mom and Pop Pop.
__________________
Love the Magic of Disney Thanks Dad for our first 5 trips.
I only had one grandparent (my dad's mom) and she was a scary woman who we only saw about once a year and we tried to lay low so I don't remember what I called her.
My dd called my mom Gram and her dad's parents Grandma and Grandpa although Grandpa is dead and Grandma moved away and doesn't contact dd so she doesn't really call her anything anymore
My DS calls my parents Babushka and Grandpa (the Babushka came from the fact that my mom went with me when I went back to Kazakhstan to bring DS home, and they suggested for him to call her Babushka because at the time he only spoke Russian and that way he would know who/what she was). He calls DH's parents Grandma and Grandpa.
__________________
MNSSHP 2015: DH (Bane), Me (Batgirl), Genie, and our friends
About This Page: 
Like
Thank
Pixie Dust
Since our DD was the first of their grandchildren, our parents picked what they would prefer to be called and that's what we taught the kids to say when they started to talk. Our nephew (DH's brother's son) has refused to call DH's parents Grandma and Grandpa since day one, so he calls them Pawpaw and Gigi. 
PassPorter Guide Author
!! 
He calls Muffin Mac and Cheese. 
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m83/kazzamcgazza/dlp-1.jpg
Linear Mode
