Sunrise, sunset

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

When did she grow to be a beauty? When did he grow to be so tall?

Wasn’t it yesterday when they were small?

I don’t remember growing older. When did they?

104 thoughts on “Sunrise, sunset”

  2. She’s Alive! Sarah Is Alive!!!!

    And’s got her Little Baby married (yes, he was officially married earlier).

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        1. In the US, most localities allow ministers/priests to sign the paperwork to make a church wedding a legal marriage.

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          1. I think in Virginia, where we live now, the authority to sign the paperwork is basically a matter of paying a fee to the Commonwealth government. Seems like I had to look that up when my eldest was marrying and they considered having my Dad (a Lutheran lay minister in Ohio) officiate.

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          2. In California, anyone can be licensed. A blogger discussed his experience with such a license when two friends asked him to marry them.

            He observed that the state did not accept any liability for harms to or by him. He wondered if shotgun marriages were still a thing.

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      2. Legally! No matter is always only the heart. They look sooo happy! Congrats Sarah. Any advice trying to get my two going. Seems so difficult for them to find the right matches!

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  5. Awe how sweet.

    congratulations, soon to be Gramma!! My youngest is 40+got 22 grands including the draftiesI am doing what I can to replenish the earth.

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    1. Callooh! Callay!

      And congratulations to the happy couples (parents-in-law deserve it as much as those married. :) )

      BTW, was that a vorpal telephone used to subdue the bureaucracy?

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        1. [Recalls Mom’s ability to bring bureaucrats down with a professionally nasty letter. I don’t recall her ever secretarying (totally a word) for a lawyer, but perhaps the surgeon’s office gave occasion to keep it well tuned.]

          Between the email and the MHI:G monsters (and the fanfic–don’t recall the monstor’s type), yeah, that could do it. “Eat toes!”

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  12. My Lovely Daughter (TM) just did the same six weeks ago. ISN’T IT JUST THE BEST FEELING EVER?! Mazal tov to both families for decades to come!!

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  14. Congratulation to the happy couple and all their family.

    And on growing older, clearly it happens interstitially, in the spaces between the parts that get put into memory, as I only ever recall realizing it happened, never it actually happening.

    Grower older and memory is like oil and water, vampires and sunlight, or politicians and truth.

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  21. Congratulations to the newly weds.

    Congratulations to mama bear for pulling this off. We know the struggle you went through with the bureaucracy, or at least the frustrations you were willing to share.

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  22. Yay! Both of them hitched now.

    More pictures would be nice – but otherwise, PLEASE feel free to collapse after the battle, you have successfully won over the obstacles. If I don’t hear from you until it’s about the never-ending house things, or antics of the cats, I shan’t worry. You have more than earned the break.

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      2. (envisioning the Doctor Strangelove “bomb run” with a giant shoe in the bomb bay and Sarah Hoyt in the Slim Pickens “Yee haw!” role…)

        (note to self: decaf after noon….)

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        1. Probably more effective to go for the cluster munition effect, so a gazillion baby shoes in a dispenser unit, which Sarah could be riding in the Slim Pickens manner.

          Hello, AI imager?

          Though note Major Kong only rode the bomb because the wiring was effed by a SAM and for some reason he was the one to go rewire it. Given her relationship with things with circuits I am not sure Sarah would be the one to go address an electrical issue. I do believe she currently has a cat, however, that would effectively go rewire things, but I doubt any cat would find itself on a dropping bomb – more likely it would just teleport to the bomb bay wall and claw itself to the surface there.

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            1. The weird thing about that movie is where the soundtrack music vanishes right across that big Kirk v Kruge fight, like they just spent the last of the money to pay the musicians on a big bar crawl the night before they recorded that scene.

              ”Oh, the heck with it, just leave it out. The stupid Trek fans will never notice.”

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      3. Except shoes thrown in the context of a wedding are fertility charms, and we don’t want those officials to reproduce, do we?

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    2. Nobody Deserving Shoes Thrown At Them showed up.

      IE They showed a little intelligence. [Twisted Grin]

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        2. Once upon a college, I dated an absolutely stunning redhead.

          Her minimum safe distance rating was about 2km.

          Alas, some incompatibilities…

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        3. oh yes, I have some small experience — 36 years worth. For that matter, my mother was an Irish redhead .. so 62 years? Keeps life …. Interesting. Wouldn’t change a day.

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  33. The Reader wishes all happiness to the bride and groom. And notes that Beautiful But Evil Space Princesses never grow old.

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  34. Congratulations to Bride and Groom and both families.

    The Lord bless you and keep you;
    the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
    the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.

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  45. May every joy and blessing follow them all the days of their lives and may angels guard them in all their ways.

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  50. So who ARE they? One of your kids and their new spouse? Or is this that wedding you were going to in Portugal?

    Don’t leave us in suspense! Do they have electricity in Portugal? OK at least in the streetcars in Lisbon and Oporto. But the usual perception of Portugal and Spain by outsiders is that people there live now as they did centuries ago. Generally the Catholic countries of the world are perceived that way by non-Catholics.

    I should be kinder to you since from your writings you’re going through very hard times. You may even be living out of your car like John Kerry once did. He married a super-rich widow but you don’t have that opportunity.

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    1. Generally the Catholic countries of the world are perceived that way by non-Catholics.

      I think you mean that the general American perception of a foreign country is frozen at the point we last had a major migration from it.

      Which is why you day “Dutch” and people still think of girls in winged starched caps and wooden sabots, for example, or “Spain” and people think everyone dresses like flamenco dancers and mariachi bands.

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    2. for the love of BOB. They have landromats, even. (Just came back from one, as mom lacks a dryer and it’s very wet out.) And they’re younger son and lovely bride. Our family gets married in a tiny chapel in Portugal. It’s what we do.
      His lovely bride is the daughter of another Baen Author. They’ve been sparking for 12 years.

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      1. Sigh. Yes.

        Not like you haven’t mentioned they got legally married in the states, and all the problems getting the religious Portugal wedding that your 90+ parents could attend, a time or two, and more. I’d roll my eyes but the cats are particularly active tonight and they’d make off with them.

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  56. Congratulations to the happy couple and well done to our Hostess for beating a group of bureaucrats into submission.

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  57. Congratulations to the lovely and happy couple and to their parents for raising such fine people.

    And to our hostess for making it happen without causing an international incident.

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      1. Till Saturday, but will probably not be functional till Monday. (Behold the power of this fully functional Sarah.)
        Fortunately (?) it’s been raining cats, dogs and the occasional mouse, so I can’t be out creating trouble. And there’s limited amounts of trouble I can get into locked in my parents’ house, reading.

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        2. I congratulated you for making the wedding happen without incident. Any incident after the wedding would have been an ancillary event.

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  59. Sarah, congratulations to the bride and groom, and to you and Dan, and everyone else who was involved in making this wedding happen so beautifully! 

    May your son and daughter-in-law enjoy a long and wonderful life together! And thank you for the pictures!

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