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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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 thought ours did not until last week when I got an email from my DD12's teacher asking if I could bring Rocky cat in for half an hour today.
They are studying animals and she was hoping to get a few different animals for the kids to see. DD12 volunteered one of our cats (we have 2).
So after confirming that no one who would be in that classroom had allergies, I brought our cat to school.
He did really well. We told his adoption story, he charmed the kids and 3 teachers (2 dropped by the class after hearing there was a cat there) by letting them give him treats and pet him.
Then the kids asked to see me walk him so I put his harness on and attempted to walk him around the classroom. He was a typical cat and wanted no part of that so he kept flopping on the ground and not moving. He'd look at me and meow. It was funny.
Next week, one of the boys is having his Dad bring in their Iguana. That will be pretty cool for the kids.
So do your schools let you bring pets into the classrooms?
My kids are older so it has been a few years since they were in elementary school. When they were, it was not unusual for someone to bring a new pet in to share with their classmates and parents often had a dog on a leash when they picked a child up (kids had to be dismissed to a parent or put on a bus because we have no sidewalks.) They were also in school in the good old days when classrooms often had a small pet.
DD's school does allow pets. It's very common for the classrooms to have everything from fish to rabbits. DD Lauren's 2nd grade teacher asked me, as room mom, to find and get a hedgehog for them. One of the local pet stores donated it, the cage, and all the food and bedding for the year. One of the kids eventually bought it from the store at the end of the year. Another class had a chinchilla.
We've taken in our dog, the kitten we found on the road a few years ago and the lizards. Other parents have been asked to bring hamsters, birds, snakes, etc.
The teachers always use it as a teaching tool. I think as long as there are no allergic children, it's a great idea!
DS has not had pets come to his class that I am aware of, but I know that DNiece (who lives in the same county as us) had a day last year in her fifth grade class when they got people to bring in various pets. If I recall correctly though, they were all small animals that were in cages (snake, guinea pig, bird, etc.). I've never taken any of my pets IN to DS's school, but when we lived right by the school and walked there in the morning, I would often walk my bloodhound with us and go on a longer walk after we got to the school. Lots of the other kids who walked would come pet Anabelle. (I never walked her all the way up on to school property, just on the sidewalk by the school driveway where DS and I parted ways)
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MNSSHP 2015: DH (Bane), Me (Batgirl), Genie, and our friends
My kids are older so it has been a few years since they were in elementary school. When they were, it was not unusual for someone to bring a new pet in to share with their classmates and parents often had a dog on a leash when they picked a child up (kids had to be dismissed to a parent or put on a bus because we have no sidewalks.) They were also in school in the good old days when classrooms often had a small pet.
that sounds like how it was when I was in school... all the way through 5th grade we had pet week/month where we brought our pets in and researched the breed, training habits, etc. So much fun. Though in fifth grade my male pug Jordy peed on one of the class bullies (who actually fell in love with that dog, and became one of my good friends in jr high, go figure lol).
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