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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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01-01-2007, 06:59 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Cypress....Deep in Southern Illinois, close enough to see the Kentucky blue grass
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Why do I let her do this to me? *odd little rant*
My mother. I am 40 years old. Why do I even attempt to try and please my mother? I invited her and my step father (with alzheimers) down to my house for ham and beans and corn bread for New Years Day. Sounds like a simple thing. Let us also mention my mother baby sits so there is this "infant" (I don't ask actual ages because I am not related and I don't care) also in attendence. SO here is how dinner goes.
Mom hands me the baby when she walks in (knowing dang full well I can't stand to hold a baby since I lost mine almost 6 years ago) and says "go to Lori". Now I know I don't want to be around babies all that much. I mean I will go how cute if you show me pictures but dadgummit don't stick one in my arms.
We sit down to dinner. Because my mother has this baby I am serving my step father who can't remember who he is much less why he is at the house so you have to remind him to eat from time to time.
So mom maybe eats two bites and goes into the coughing fit that would remind you of the whoopoing cough outbreak of whatever century. So she starts spitting it up right there at the table. Well she coughs during the entire next 20 minutes because she said it brought on one of her bronchitis attacks. In the mean time I again have the baby and am still trying to help my step father and eat dinner myself. She finally gets back to the table takes the kid and says there was too much pepper (everyone had to add it because I knew she would complain if she saw a speck) and that the ham pieces (which previous mentioned bottle baby could have ate) were too big.
Then the corn bread wasn't done enough. Oh it was cooked all the way but not burnt to her standards.
Believe it or not this was not the end of her regular support of me but this is what has been stuck in my craw all dang day.
Why do I let her do this STILL after 40 years?
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01-01-2007, 07:04 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Michigan
Concierge Level: 2
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Re: Why do I let her do this to me? *odd little rant*
Because you were raised to respect and honor your parents/elders. You love them even while wanting to shoot them in the foot to get them to leave. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] for you. I am sorry she was forcing you into holding a child while not considering how your heart would be breaking. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grouphug.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/flowerred.gif[/img]
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01-01-2007, 07:22 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Dreaming of the Future
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Posts: 24,867
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Re: Why do I let her do this to me? *odd little rant*
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01-01-2007, 07:28 PM
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PassPorter and WDW Addict
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Texas
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 12,489
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Re: Why do I let her do this to me? *odd little rant*
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01-01-2007, 07:34 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Orange, Texas
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Re: Why do I let her do this to me? *odd little rant*
Because you're a nice and caring person. Here's some [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] to help you feel better!!
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01-01-2007, 08:52 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Philadelphia sub- burbs
Concierge Level: 4
Posts: 11,944
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Re: Why do I let her do this to me? *odd little rant*
Because like me you were raised to respect your parents/ elders even while you may have wanted to choke the living you know what out of them.
P.s. What you went through is the exact reason I no longer invite my family to dinner. I just can't listen to their stuff anymore.
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01-01-2007, 09:28 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Manchester NH
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Posts: 12,514
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Re: Why do I let her do this to me? *odd little rant*
Sorry you had such a rough day.
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01-01-2007, 09:33 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Georgia
Posts: 914
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Re: Why do I let her do this to me? *odd little rant*
I plan to avoid my mom until at least March when she will be keeping DD for a week. She totally upset DD b/c her sister came into town with 1 day notice (from Missouri to Alabama)and my mom had invited DD to stay with her from Christmas Day until Friday the 29th. So instead of my aunt staying with her daughter she stayed with my mom and DD was so sad that she couldn't stay at grandma's! Anyway it will be a while before I will see her!
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01-01-2007, 09:38 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: san francisco
Posts: 13,151
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Re: Why do I let her do this to me? *odd little rant*
I am so sorry about your dinner. It sounds to me like you were trying to be the good hostess but were just on overwhelm. We all(I hope) more or less love our parents. Though some are much easier to love then others. My advice would be to put up with it as much as you can and then give yourself a big reward!! Like a trip to WDW!!! I wish every day I had my dad around. I sure miss him(He died two years ago). My mom and I don't get along very well. So the family thing(Problem) makes the rounds. I wish you the best in the future. There is no easy solution I know. Just try to be good for yourself. Your parents may be a pain in the ----- but at least you still have them!!!
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01-01-2007, 10:20 PM
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Community Rank: Passenger 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 41
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Re: Why do I let her do this to me? *odd little rant*
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01-02-2007, 03:49 AM
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PassPorter Message Board Manager
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Community Rank: Legend VIP 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Maidstone, Kent, UK
Concierge Level: 3
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Re: Why do I let her do this to me? *odd little rant*
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01-02-2007, 08:09 AM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Maine
Posts: 5,893
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Re: Why do I let her do this to me? *odd little rant*
Good for you for trying to be a good daughter. You can look back on this day and know you at least tried. Only you can decide how much longer you want to put up with it.
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01-02-2007, 08:41 AM
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Community Rank: Legend Extraordinaire 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: New York, NY
Posts: 35,829
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Re: Why do I let her do this to me? *odd little rant*
Because for better or worse she's your mom
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01-02-2007, 11:04 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: northern Virginia
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Re: Why do I let her do this to me? *odd little rant*
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Because you care.
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01-02-2007, 02:58 PM
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Community Rank: Legend Extraordinaire
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Re: Why do I let her do this to me? *odd little rant*
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