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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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.
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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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DS 15 used to participate in seasonal sports - baseball (age 4-9), soccer (age 4-10) and basketball (age 5-11), with karate - Kenpo Oki-Ryu (age 6-15) year round. I was grateful when karate became his main focus and some of the sports started falling off, as it was just too much running around all over the place all the time. He's a junior black belt in karate.
Both of my DD's take dance lessons. Oldest DD has tried soccer, basketball, and T-ball. She wasn't very into any of them. (We basically had to bribe her a quarter a kick to even get near the soccer ball) Last year we signed her up for cheerleading for the local Pee-Wee football team. She LOVED it!!! She is now into her second season of it. Youngest DD is not quite old enough for anything but dance yet, but next year we'll see what she might want to do.
DD(8) does summer rec soccer.
During the school year she takes dance - ballet, tap and jazz.
I need to get her back into swimming lessons. For a while she didn't care, so we quit going.
Next summer she'll be old enough for summer rec tennis, which I want to sign her up for so she can learn a lifetime sport.
Both my kids bowl in a league on Saturday Mornings. DS is currently playing Fall Baseball. He has played Basketball and Soccer, but baseball seems to be his thing. It is for a rec program. He can't play for the school district until he is a freshman(there is no middle school baseball).
DD5 started figure skating when she was 3 and started competing in local meets about 6 months later. This past year, she started traveling to out-of-town competitions, about one meet every two to three months.
She also dances (ballet and tap) and takes swimming lessons. She tried soccer for one season, but didn't really like it, so we didn't continue. Tried gymnastics, too, but didn't love it the way she does skating.
DS1 is too little to do anything yet, but desperately wants to SKATE!! It's all I can do to keep him off the ice during DD's lessons!! (Her coach took him out on the ice one time and he's been hooked ever since!) DH says I have to encourage him to do hockey, though, rather than figure skating. They will take him at 2, and even though I said I wouldn't ever start a kid in something until they were 3, I may have to make an exception for him.
my girls play soccer in the fall, and softball in the spring. We have decided to forgo dance classes but dh14 plays the tenor sax and will take lessons this year.. might start the dh8 on an instrument soon! busy bees!!!
Well my kids are old! At least that's what I remind them!
But when they were younger...DD Lucy absolutely hated sports of any kind. She was a reader -- still is. You won't see her without a book.
DS#1 Luke played T-Ball, Baseball, Soccer, Volleyball and Hockey. We found out when he was 3 that he was a natural on ice. We rented an ice rink for DD birthday and Luke put on skates, stepped on the ice and away he flew. We were completely shocked! He wanted to start hockey in kindergarten because his teacher's husband would visit the classroom and tell of his glory days as a hockey player. We didn't start him until the summer following kindergarten. He played through high school.
DS#2 Chat played T-Ball, Karate, Soccer, Volleyball. He loved soccer and played from kindergarten through high school.
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DD14 has played soccer since she was 6. She just made the JV soccer team as a freshman in high school. She also tried swim team in middle school. Takes after me, I played field hockey, volley ball, soccer, softball and tennis.
DD19 HATES sports, and beside playing kick ball at recess and enough swimming lessons so she wouldn't drown, has never has any interest in sports. Take after DH.
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How about toddler tumbling/gymnastics? I know around here they start at a very early age with those clases.
Well, I look at the Ymca or even community center clode to our home and nothing! Except gym class with mom but I can'T go since DD4 is at home and I don't have sitter in the day! It's like I would have love for DD to take englhis class but it seems it's not offer until she's 6!
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My DS's both play footy (soccer) on a Friday evening for our local team (HOME). They started as Under 7's and will now be in the Under 13's when their season starts in a couple of weeks, to which DH coaches the "B" team. When the boy's were younger, they did swimming lessons.
My kids are sports nuts however I had girls so I started them out with dance thinking they would be girly girls... NOT. Shannon (age 10) danced for six years though and just gave it up two years ago to concentrate on sports. She has been playing basketball since she was 4 (in an inhouse instructional rec league) and is nowon the traveling basketball team for the rec league and is old enough to play CYO (Catholic Youth Organization for those of you who don't know) for her elementary school and yes she will do both if she can. She has also played some form of softball (from t-ball to pitching machine to traveling team for our local rec center) since she was 3 years old. She will play for our rec center and CYO this year as well. She also decided to pick up soccer two years ago but she only plays that for CYO (soccer started in 3rd grade not 5th like the other sports).
Katie (age 7) danced for five years but is now playing sports exclusively too. She also plays and has played basketball (since age 4) and t-ball/pitching machine/traveling team softball since she was 3. She just decided to play soccer this year and had her first practice last thursday.
Molly (age 4) danced for two years but now told me since she is old enough she wants to play sports "full time". She played t-ball in the spring/summer. Will play soccer this fall and basketball in the winter all for the inhouse league at our rec center.
Katie and Shannon also both played in summer basketball leagues this summer. They would all play more sports (swimming, flag football, etc) if I would let them but my rule is one sport per season period. Anything more is too much for them with school and too much running around for me so I made them pick their favorites.
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They will take him at 2, and even though I said I wouldn't ever start a kid in something until they were 3, I may have to make an exception for him.
It's like I would have love for DD to take englhis class but it seems it's not offer until she's 6!
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