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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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The last few months have been such a roller coaster in my life. We went on our first disney cruise in December and had the time of our lives. I still haven't started my trip report because of the roller coaster that has ensued since we returned. The week after we got back from the cruise I found out that I was pregnant with our third child....huge surprise since my youngest is 6...nonetheless we were ecstatic...then the first trimester morning sickness and exhaustion set in and when I wasn't at work I was on my couch sleeping. In fact the pregnancy and exhaustion forced me to cancel my trip to WDW in Feb for my birthday and to run the Princess Half.
Last week was the 12 week mark and I was finally starting to feel better and ready to start my trip report and share my amazing trip with you all. Unfortunately my world came crashing down on Friday when we were told that I had suffered a miscarriage and our precious baby was no longer alive. To say i have been crushed is an understatement....12 weeks was supposed to be that safe point in a pregnancy when the fear of miscarriage goes away.
I have spent the last week trying to physically recover and am slowly trying to get a grip on the emotional recovery. Ironically at this point I would love nothing more than to run away to the work or another cruise and forget about all of this....unfortunately that's not going to happen so I will forge ahead.....
And I promise that soon I will start that trip report if for any other reason than to brighten my mood
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HUGE HUGE HUGE hugs!!!!!!!!!!! I lost my ds at 18.5 wk gestation. It was horrible. You feel as though you are in the "safe" zone and then you get slapped in the face with a m/c. It hurts so much. The grief is real. I found people dismissed it and gave "reasons" why it happened, which did NOT take away the pain. It hurt. It takes awhile to put it aside (you never forget it). It has been 8 yrs now. I still remember the date, and every Christmas, we put up his orinment on the tree. I have had a dd since then, but she isn't a replacement for ds. Yes, I have moved on, but I won't forget.
If you want to pm me, please do. I get it. I am soo sorry!!!!
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Originally Posted by Teresa
I'm so sorry. I know the pain of miscarriage too. With being able to find out so early you're pregnant, a lot of women who ordinarily would just think they had a "False alarm" are finding they had a pregnancy that ended too soon.
I think for me, what hurt the most was that no-one knows what to say, so they pretend it never happened. Like that 3 months of my life simply vanished.
Give yourself time and space to grieve, and understand that others may seem distant not because they don't care, but because they really do not know what to say or do.
Pixies to you and your family.
There are no words. I also suffered a miscarriage at 18 weeks as well of our first child. I was devastated, my DH was shell shocked and didn't know what to say to me, we didn't live near family as DH was in the military... All this to say, so many of us know your pain. I still say a prayer on the day I lost our precious baby and the day that would have been her birthday and it's been 33 years. I say her, I don't know, my Dr thought I would 'get over it' faster if I didn't think of it as a 'real baby'. If you need to vent, cry rant, whatever, we are all here for you! We get it.
I am very sorry for your loss. Hugs & prayers for you...
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First trip DW--Nov. 1975; Senior Class Trip DW--Oct. 1979; First trip w/kids--Oct. 1995; Halloween at DW--Oct. 2002; Spring Break at DW--April 2004; Christmas/Pop Warner Nationals-POR--Dec. 2005;Cruisin'--April 2008; Mom/Son trip-POP--March 2010;Taggin' along w/DD on DH's conference-BWI--Oct. 2011; 50th birthday with the Gartner Geeks--Adults only!--BWI--Oct. 2012; The Trip That Almost Wasn't--BWI--Oct. 2013; We climbed The Summit (National Cheer Competition)--ASMovies--May 2014
Thank you all for the kind words. I have faith that when the time is right we will be blessed with another child
It took me awhile to get pregnant again, but it happened a few years later. It was my last chance...I turned 40 and I said I was finished trying after that point. I got pregnant June that yr. She is beautiful and very healthy.
Nana Tink: I am so sorry!!!! I don't know if what the dr said to you helped or not. I think that was the way things were done in the past. We had a grave side funeral for our little guy. And I too think of him every yr on the day that I lost him too-my dream got crushed that day. You don't forget...the pain goes away, but that child is always with you. My kids know about their brother, and we talk about him occassionally...he is still apart of us, even though we don't speak about him much. I had 3 children, but my ds is just not here physically but always in my heart. . Thankyou for sharing!!!!!
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