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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Working on the list....
Working my way down my Christmas list....
Christmas cards all done and mailed!
All gifts that had to be shipped are wrapped and sent!
Shopping is almost done....I still have to finish my dh! Just one more item for him!
Wrapping of presents....slowly getting done!
Christmas cookies are started, but this week will be the big finish for them!
Christmas eve dinner menu planned, now I just have to go to the grocery!
I want to be completely done with everything by Thursday noon.
Zach flies in on Thursday evening!!!
All cards mailed.
All gifts purchased. None wrapped..should be done this weekend.
Still need a few stocking stuffers.
Christmas Eve dinner also planned and I too need to go to grocery shopping.
I haven't even started cookies yet.
All gifts that needed to be mailed out are done and gone.
House still needs straightening and vacuumed. That is today.
Wow, I guess I have much more than I thought.
Cards mailed.
Shopping done.
Presents wrapped. Need to mail one on Monday.
Turkey coming out of the freezer on Monday. (will cook on Saturday so house isn't a mess on Sunday) Baking ham on Sunday with the other "oven" items.
Grocery store on Tuesday--list and coupons ready!
Cutting out and baking cookies today, decorating tomorrow.
Cleaning lady coming Monday.
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It's getting there!
House Decorated
Card mailed
Gifts shipped
Shopping done, gifts wrapped
I'll be at my parents, so don't have to worry about menu for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day dinners
Need to finish:
Started cookies, need to finish those this weekend
Need to clean the house
Deliver gifts
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Christmas gift shopping all done.
Just finished wrapping up teachers gifts and my families gifts which leave Mon.
Baking all done for now except for some Biscotti which is set for Monday (bread made, thankgoodness)
Cleaning is done as much as it can with 2 kids and a hubby that can undo all my work in 10 min, so it will be done on the 23.
List is made.
Left:
more stocking stuffers
wrapping kids gifts
grocery shopping which will be done on Tues or Wed. My plan is to stay at home from the 22nd to the 29 without going into town.
iron table cloths
When do i bring out the frozen turkey???? I need it thawed for Christmas day.
Cards mailed.
All present purchased, and most are ready for Christmas morning. Just a few left to wrap, but Luke and I can do that easily before Friday as we are both off starting Wednesday.
My DSis June will be doing most of the cooking. But I will make a breakfast casserole Monday night to take for our Secret Angel breakfast on Tuesday.
Cleaned the house thoroughly today and since we'll be off most of the week I can keep it picked up, so we won't need to clean before Christmas.
Got all my cards mailed.
All Christmas gifts are purchased.
Christmas gifts are wrapped except for Lexi's. I will get hers wrapped sometime next week after she is in bed.
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day menus are planned.
I have half of my grocery list purchased, getting the perishable items next week.
I plan on making my second round of cookies and fudge some time next week (I have already made a batch of Christmas goodies for Lexi's preschool program which was a couple weeks ago).
We just need to finish cleaning the house, ahead of my parents' arrival on Christmas Eve and that's it. We did downstairs yesterday, now it's upstairs today.
The presents are all wrapped, the cards went in the mail a good week or so back, we have our meals planned and the online shopping in. I think that's it!
Ugh...I was so on top of things and then fell behind with family in for Thanksgiving and getting a bad cold. So now...
-Decorations have been up since Thanksgiving
-Most gifts purchased, just need to wrap what I bought this weekend
-Working on the hand made family gifts, almost done those as they are a little more time consuming than I thought.
-House needs cleaned, but DD is off from school this week so I have her working on that
-Need to put graduation pictures in frames for gifts (bought the frames this weekend)
Plan is to be done on Thursday so I can enjoy my day off on Friday. DF is coming into town Friday night and I have to take him out shopping on Saturday to finish his shopping, so that will be a crazy day. Other than that, determined to get some rest before Christmas as last year DD was in the hospital for a week prior to Christmas and got out just 2 days before which caused me to run around like a chicken with no head. Not going to happen this year!
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