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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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12-03-2003, 04:20 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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They grow up WAY to quickly!
Good grief - I just stepped out of my office and went into the kitchen to grab a cup of coffee. Off in the family room what do I see? My 9 year old daughter doing Pilates!  She'd popped in one of my wife's tapes. I asked her what she was doing and she said she said innocently "just exercising". 
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12-03-2003, 04:22 PM
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Community Rank: Navigator 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Tioga County, PA
Posts: 6,102
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Re: They grow up WAY to quickly!
That's the problem you look away for 5 minutes and 10 years has goon by!
Signed,
Where have the last 20 years gone?
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12-03-2003, 05:22 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: BURLESON TX (near Ft. Worth)
Posts: 5,589
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Re: They grow up WAY to quickly!
I have a middle schooler and it seems like yesterday
I was dropping him off at kindergarden.  |
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12-03-2003, 06:29 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 3,968
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Re: They grow up WAY to quickly!
There's a song that played on the radio before kindergarten started. It brought a tear to my eye. Its called TURN AROUND
A couple of lines I remember are . .
<font color="blue">
Turn around and you're two
Turn around and you're four
Turn around and you're a young girl
With babies of your own </font>
Or something like that but its so true you just turn around and they just grow too fast
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12-03-2003, 07:18 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Posts: 27,691
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Re: They grow up WAY too quickly!
Ugh, I don't even want to think about having 2 in elementary school next year. It does seem like just yesterday they were born. <sigh>
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12-03-2003, 07:36 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Parsippany,NJ
Posts: 3,235
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Re: They grow up WAY to quickly!
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There's a song that played on the radio before kindergarten started. It brought a tear to my eye. Its called TURN AROUND
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Irene, I love that song! It goes:
Where are you going my little one, little one?
Where are you going my baby, my own?
Turn around and you're two
Turn around and you're four
Turn around and you're a young girl
going out of the door
Turn around, turn around, turn around
and you're a young girl going out of the door.
Where are you going my little one, little one?
Litttle dirndls and petticoats, where have you gone?
Turn around and you're tiny
Turn around and you've grown
Turn around and you're a young wife
with babes of your own.
Turn around, turn around, turn around
and you're a young wife with babes of your own.
by Rita Greene
Oh, my gosh, that makes me cry! My little one is already 5 and I know it will be tomorrow and she'll be dating and driving and going off to college and getting married...
My life is over! |
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12-03-2003, 07:37 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
Posts: 9,422
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Re: They grow up WAY too quickly!
A BOY called last week asking for my daughter!! Asking about a sheet music book she said. I'm sorry, but in my mind she is only 5! |
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12-03-2003, 08:16 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 2,734
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Re: They grow up WAY to quickly!
Janet, thanks for those lyrics! My mom used to sing that to me when I was little. I tear up thinking about my little girl!
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12-03-2003, 09:34 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Batavia, Illinois
Posts: 257
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Re: They grow up WAY to quickly!
I have a DD who I think I took to Kindergarten yesterday who is seriously beginning to look at colleges. She'll be a senior next year. She can't possibly be that old, because I'm not!
Beth
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12-04-2003, 12:03 AM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 34,137
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Re: They grow up WAY to quickly!
<font color="0066cc">  I have a kid that's driving! Yikes! When did he quit playing with cars and start driving them?!!! DD & DS are also thinking about scholarships and what they have to do to earn one.</font> |
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12-04-2003, 12:57 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Richardson, TX
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 3,357
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Re: They grow up WAY to quickly!
I can see it now.....Steve and Don standing threatenly by the the front door when a young man comes to call!  |
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12-04-2003, 01:01 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: jacksonville, fl usa
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 5,790
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Re: They grow up WAY to quickly!
Our little girl got her college acceptance letter in the mail yesterday. Where did all those years go?  |
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12-04-2003, 05:20 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 3,968
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Re: They grow up WAY to quickly!
Janet, thanks
Its a great song but for it to come on the radio in the car a day before school start it just brought a tear to my eyes.
Take care  |
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