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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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I don't know where else to vent this, so I figured my PP'er friends would give the best un-biased advice.
So, here is the deal, I love my family but I can't stand them at the same time. And when I say family, I mean my mom, dad, sister, her husband. I can't STAND them! It would take forever to go through everything they have done to make me have these feelings but the long and short of it is that my sister and my mom are VERY two-faced. They say they hate drama and want no part of it but they start half of it and ALWAYS involve themselves in it. They talk about people behind their backs (including my husband and I) and then say they can't stand people who talk about others behind other people's backs. My sister is just, ughh. She has 3 kids with two different fathers, which isn't the problem. But she and her husband take and take from people. They blow their money and then expect (and get) help from everyone, including my mother, and they are NEVER EVER grateful for it. For example, my sisters husbands mother and step-father bought them a car, paid the insurance on it for a while, and paid to get it fixed, and those two were never happy. They are mad at her currently because she stopped paying their phone and internet bill for them. My mom comes to me CRYING because my sister is so ungrateful and nasty but at the drop of a hat, starts babying her again and ONCE AGAIN I become the enemy. I can't stand it. I have no relationship with my sister and that is the way I want it. My mom things I'm being disloyal to my family because I don't like the drama and two-facedness (my made up word) that my family is all about.
Whew! So, my problem is, my parents are supposed to watch my son next weekend while my husband and I are at the food and wine festival but I don't trust them in my house. And they won't watch him at their house...but they'll keep my sisters kids for the weekend for the last two weekends in a row. They won't watch my son at their house because they claim they have "no toys" for him there but they VOLUNTEER to keep my sisters kids for the weekend all the time at their house...
So, what do I do? I really want this weekend but I'm afraid I will have an awful time if I'm worrying the whole time.
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Ugh! I feel your pain. I've got a step-brother who is 35, can't hold a job, and lives in a house my step-mama owns, drives her car, she pays for all of his bills, and she gives him money all of the time - sending her into financial problems.
What your real problem seems to be is that you don't trust your parents to watch your son. Why not? Their support of your sister has nothing to do with their ability to care for a child. Is it that your mother is so two-faced?
My suggestion would be to try to find someone else to watch him. Does he have any friends whose parents might be willing to keep him? Maybe in exchange for you taking their child another day? I see you're in Orlando - can you take your DS with you? It won't be the same, but it may be the best solution; you can still have fun and you'll know your DS is safe.
The only other thing I'd say is: do you feel your parents will actually harm your son? Do they love him? Something I've learned in my life is that while my parents don't always take care of my kids the way I would, they won't hurt them - they love my kids and just parent a little differently than I do. My kids are safe with them - and usually love the additional freedom they get while with grandma or grandpa.
It's not that I don't trust them with my son. I just don't trust them in my house. Long back story on that too that I just don't want to get in to. I know they love my son...They favor my sisters kids wayyyy more and they do that to spite me, but that's whatever. I don't care about that. My real problem is that I don't trust them in my house. And seeing as they would be staying here, it makes me nervous...
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Oh wow! I totally understand where you are at. You don't have too many choices here. If the only reason Grandma won't watch Junior in their home is "toys", tell them you'll be glad to bring his favorite toys with them. Then, do you have some work you need to do at the house--paint a room or something? If so, take a few minutes, do some prep work and then you can honestly tell your folks that staying at your house wouldn't work because you have the "unfinished"project that is taking up so much space that it is not convenient for them to stay there.
You can always tell them that Junior wants to stay at THEIR house!!! Most kids like to go and stay away from home for a night. It's like their own vacation. He might also mind them better away from your house. Just a couple of tools. Yes, I've used at least one of them. With my family, it made them feel more important.
If it were me, I would tell them that you would rather they didn't stay at your house. For me, I'd say that I don't feel it's up to snuff for company and I wouldn't be comfortable asking them to stay there. Then tell them that if they can't take the little guy in their home for the weekend, then maybe you will just bring him with you.
Sorry about the family drama. I have a BIL that's similar to your sister. He's 47, still lives at home, and pays no expenses whatsoever. He's on my FIL's car insurance and cell phone plan and doesn't even contribute to grocery costs. I just use him as a teaching tool for my kids. I tell the kids, "don't even think you're going to be like Uncle X. You're getting your own place and when I get too old, I'm coming to live with YOU!"
Thanks for all the advice everyone. I've tried making excuses like that but they insist on watching him here, which sounds weird to me. I told my DH we could bring our son with us, it's not a big deal. But he seems to think that if we took him with last minute, it would cause more problems then it would solve. I'm really torn. I know he's right but I still don't feel right about this whole thing. I'm not really worried they would take stuff. We know what we have and don't have in the house so even IF they did take anything, we would notice right away. But I keep important papers and bank statements and all that here and I don't want them going through all that. Lets just say that we had an issue before of "someone" trying to call our bank and get our bank info using my social security number and knew all the answers to our security questions. And I KNOW who it was but I don't have physical proof.
I appreciate all the advice! Keep it coming! hahah
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That's a tricky situation, I would feel uncomfortable leaving them in my house too. Do whatever makes you feel most comfortable and allows you to enjoy your trip. You don't want to spend the time away worrying about what's going on at home. IMHO, i would take the little one with me. Hope that you manage to work something out.
I would try to lock up your papers or even stick them in a box and take them with you...... maybe that would solve the problem? I know it's a hassle; but that may be the best solution...
I would probably look into a Disney kids club at one of the resorts and have your DS stay there if possible.
If the only option though comes down to your parents watching him at your house, I would take all my papers that I didn't really want someone looking through and put them in a room (a spare bedroom perhaps, or some room there would be no reason for them to go in), and then put in a door knob that had a key lock (they are really easy to install), lock the room and take the key. If your parents asked why that door was locked, simply tell them there are things in that room that are for your and DH's eyes only and you always lock it when you're not at home now.
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