PTR: The Dunning Family's Triumphant Return to the World - Page 17 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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How old is Miss Chelsea? I got pregnant with my youngest boy when my second one was 10 months old. To say I was shocked would be an understatement. So by the time the baby was born the other one was 19 months, plus I had a 5 year old.
Good luck with everything!!! It's not an easy task but it's doable. Plus, it's so great that they get to grow up being so close together in age.
Congrats! Luke and I visited DLR for the first time this past October and loved it, too. Somethings are even better than at WDW.
My mom says It's A Small World is much better at DLR!
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Congrats to you, David and the the girls .
Thank you, Mike.
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Many congrats to you and David!
Thanks!
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Congratulations!
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COngratulations!!!
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Wow, congratulations!
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Thank you!
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As I told you before- Congratulations! Life is sure funny that way, always with the curve balls!
Life likes throwing curve balls, for sure! I feel like I'm getting better at hitting them, though. [emoji6]
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Congrats!
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Great story! Thank you so much!!
Thank you.
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Congrats!!!
How old is Miss Chelsea? I got pregnant with my youngest boy when my second one was 10 months old. To say I was shocked would be an understatement. So by the time the baby was born the other one was 19 months, plus I had a 5 year old.
Good luck with everything!!! It's not an easy task but it's doable. Plus, it's so great that they get to grow up being so close together in age.
Miss Chelsea is ten months old as of the fifth. (So, in 15 minutes in my time zone, haha.) Her birthday is in June and the baby is due November 18, so she will be roughly 17 months old when the new baby is born, and Briana will have just turned 4. So I will have a 4 year old, an almost 1.5 year old, and a newborn. Good luck to me, haha! My brothers and I are all close in age (my older brother was March of 87, I was June of 88, and my younger brother was August of 89) and we are pretty close, so I'm hoping my kids will have a close bond as well.
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Congratulations!!
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Oh my gosh! Im so glad I decided to check up on Passporter! Such wonderful news!
It really is, isn't it? Babies are always wonderful news. ❤️
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Congratulations...Guessing this was a happy surprise. So how far apart will they all be? I see some Disney shopping in your future.
When JBs siblings join us we have 3 toddlers 3 & under. (Oldest turns 4 next week). It gets a little crazy but it is doable.
Once I got over the complete shock, I got happy, yes! [emoji23] Bri will have just turned 4 and Chelsea will be 17 months old when the new baby arrives around November 18th. Thanks for the encouragement! I know I will adjust. I'm just glad I have some time to prepare! [emoji1]
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