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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Good reminder for those who had good, healthy childhoods. For those who did not (and we never know WHAT kind of home life the children of those women had - they could have been the best moms in the world, or near the worst) it may not be something they want to do.
I love my parents, and talk to them frequently, usually at least once a week for each of them.
I would also add that it's very hard for a lot of people to handle the aging process. It's brutal and not pretty. When my grandmother was in the last year of her life, I found it hard to spend much time with her. I reasoned that she didn't know who I was anyway, and it was easier on ME to avoid her at times. I still saw her, but not as often as I should have. If you don't see it, you don't have to deal with it!
For these women's children, they may be thinking that if they don't see it, it's not that bad and they can continue to pretend "Mom" is perfectly happy and the same woman who raised them.
I remember telling Grandma's nurse: "That's not my Grandma. She died 7 years ago, when grandpa died. The woman in there is just her shell."
I am sorry for these families. When my step-dad, MY DAD, passed away in May of this year, my step-sister would not come to the funeral because she had her time at the time share scheduled. My uncle even offered to buy her a plane ticket so she could come and she said no. She said she had been waiting for her vacation and her dad wouldn't know if she was there. These "children" will have to live with their decisions. Nothing would keep me away from my parents in a time like that.
I just lost my mom in June. She was hospitalized for 18 days and there wasn't a day during her stay that I wasn't with her. She was alone maybe from 10:00 pm to 7:00 am when the hospital made us leave but that is it and someone was there bright and early the next day. My brother and I made all the necessary decisions and did everything she wanted as the end neared. It makes me sick to think that someone in my mom's situation would be left alone.
Great reminder! I call my Dad once a week and try to visit at least once a month. I can't imagine not treating our parents as precious. My Dad is so important to me.
Thisis a huge issue with me. As a health care provider, I cannot tell you how many people we transort from nursing homes that have no family contact or don't see their children on a regular basis. We also see many who haven't seen their grandchildren in years because of some slight, real or imagined, that they have let fester for years.
While I realize that not everyone's childhood was ideal, there has to be a time where you can put that behind you.
I joke around about my Dad and call him "The Grumpy Old Man", but I see him often, talk to him often, and love him very much. I can't imagine just leaving him to be with strangers and not being there when he needs me.
I went to see my DF before they took him to Cleveland. I am so glad I did, as the next time I saw him, he was hooked to a venilator, dying. It meant so much to me that I could say goodbye, I love you.
How you want children to treat parents when older starts when they are younger. If you are too busy when they are little- they will be too busy when they are older. My dad, who passed 8 years ago, worked out of town mostly. But he was never too busy to call and talk to me every day. We also ate at the table together every night even when my father wasn't home. His 3 other children (all older than my mother) never had that attention. My dad used to tell me how he went wrong with his other children. Just before he passed away he wanted to see them, but all three were too busy to come.
My husband works a lot because he owns his own business. But my daughter knows she can pick up any phone in the house, press 1 and it will connect to her daddy. No matter what he is doing he will stop and talk to her. They also schedule Saturday dates for morning or afternoon religiously.
I'm not saying these people deserve their treatment but you have to factor in the fact they raised these children.
I speak with my DM everyday. Her and my DDad live 5000km away and due to his cancer treatment have been unable to visit our new home (We moved states last July). I talk to DDad when he answers the phone or has something to tell me but maybe only a few times per week. They had planned to visit us christmas last year but DDad was still in hospital...
On Tuesday night my DH says we should just book plane tickets for them as a surprize...anyway that's what we did and they are arriving Tuesday! I can't wait. My DDad has limitations and will require the same amount of care at my home as in his. So exciting.
I could never think of either of them as a burden. My Grandfather just passed last month and he had suffered dementia for about 8-9yrs. My DM (his daughter in law) faithfully visited him 3 times a week in all those last 5 years he was in care. Before that she would visit him at his home to check he had breakfast and dinner medications etc. In the last 6mths she visited him EVERYDAY - a 40minute drive away. This is when my DDad was being treated for cancer. My DM never complained. I will forever be in awe of that.
I will never be forgetting my responsibilities to my family. They will always come before vacations, work or play.
Granted we do not know what sort of parent the OP was speaking of...but surely we should set an example for our own kids?
I'm in contact with my parents regularly. I'd still live at home if I could
I just don't understand the type of person that turns their back on teh persons that raised them. Unless they were just horrid people there's no reason not to keep them in your life.
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