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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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 was 21 when I got married. I was too young. I spent a lot of years second guessing that decision. I have known people that got married the same age and were definately ready . Ironically out of those people, me and DH are still together after 23 years and they are divorced. I think marriage is hard at any age. It is a constantly changing entity and it takes a lot to learn to roll with it. It has just been the last number of years that we have started to really "settle into " our marriage and begin to understand it. I don't know if that makes sense or not to anybody else.
I got married when I was 24, I'm 30 now and will celebrate my 3rd anniversary of my divorce on 3/19. I don't think I was young at the time... my ex had gotten back from Iraq and decided he didn't want to be married anymore.
I was 21 when I got married. I was too young. I spent a lot of years second guessing that decision. I have known people that got married the same age and were definately ready . Ironically out of those people, me and DH are still together after 23 years and they are divorced. I think marriage is hard at any age. It is a constantly changing entity and it takes a lot to learn to roll with it. It has just been the last number of years that we have started to really "settle into " our marriage and begin to understand it. I don't know if that makes sense or not to anybody else.
I was 21 when I got married. I was too young. I spent a lot of years second guessing that decision. I have known people that got married the same age and were definately ready . Ironically out of those people, me and DH are still together after 23 years and they are divorced. I think marriage is hard at any age. It is a constantly changing entity and it takes a lot to learn to roll with it. It has just been the last number of years that we have started to really "settle into " our marriage and begin to understand it. I don't know if that makes sense or not to anybody else.
I met my DH when I was in my senior year of HS. I liked him immediately. He liked me, but didn't want to date me. He didn't ask me out for 3 years, although we were friends all that while, dating others. What surprises me is how I found a really nice person at such a young age, and was smart enough to know that.
I met my DH when I was 18. We waited 10 yrs to get married (we were engaged for 2 of those 10yrs). We both finished college, started our careers, traveled and bought our home. We'll be married for 4 yrs. this June. I'm very happy we waited to settle down and get married. We've been able to see and do a lot and we are very lucky. Plus, I don't think were mature enough to get married in our 20's. He was too caught up in his rock band. I was busy w/school and having fun following him to gigs
Married at age 21 and we're going on our 22nd year of marriage. Whew! The funny thing is, my DD is 20 and I don't want her to get married for a loooooong time. I wanted to be married and start a family early, whereas, my DD is still in college, will be traveling to Italy this summer, and plans on starting a career before she even thinks about marriage.
I think marriage counseling should be a prerequisite for every couple.
I was 41 when I had Luke and eleven months later I gave birth to Brooke
Judi: Thankyou!!! I know we are a growing trend and it is great to see others with children at our age!!!!!!!! I didn't plan to wait that long but I had difficulites getting pregnant, and we had waited until we had better finances etc. Then after my ds who I had at 36 yrs old, I had numerous m/c and even lost my baby boy at 18 1/2 wks gestation when I was 38. After a few more early m/c, I finally got pregnant with my dd at age 40 and had her 2 mths after I turned 41 It is abit different having kids at our age but alot better than when our parents had us. Although our grandparents generation had kids at our age but it missed our parents
Thanks for responding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I met my DH when I was 18. We waited 10 yrs to get married (we were engaged for 2 of those 10yrs). We both finished college, started our careers, traveled and bought our home. We'll be married for 4 yrs. this June. I'm very happy we waited to settle down and get married. We've been able to see and do a lot and we are very lucky. Plus, I don't think were mature enough to get married in our 20's. He was too caught up in his rock band. I was busy w/school and having fun following him to gigs
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