The Lesbian Mom Next Door is Starting the Holidays Right

Like many red-blooded, middle-class American lesbian moms, we spend the month of December decorating, overeating, shopping, visiting relatives and watching holiday television on DVD. We started with a bang December first by watching the original stop-motion Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer at our eleven year-old daughter’s request. She thought it would be a memorable beginning to the 2006 holiday season.

Well, you could say that–we’re not likely to forget that this was the year it was mere seconds into the movie before the social commentary started. The older two were aghast that Donner was so critical of his newborn son, that Santa was red-nosed intolerant, and I couldn’t help pointing out that not only was Hermie a dentist wanna-be, he had clearly been a theatre major in elf college, and with that hair was probably playing for our team. Maybe that was why he would “never fit in.”

This was when my wife suggested we were ruining it for our three year-old (so I shut up and started taking notes), but even he said, “Santa is not a nice guy,” when Santa told Donner he “should be ashamed of himself” because his son was different than all the rest.

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Happy Thanksgiving from GayAgenda.com!

Those of us at GayAgenda.com would like to take this opportunity to say Happy Thanksgiving to all of our readers, whether you live in the U.S. or beyond.

Thanksgiving takes on a myriad of different meanings to all who celebrate the day. For some it’s about the ritual of being with family, for some it marks the beginning of the holiday season. For others it’s a time when we get together with our families, extended families and/or friends. It’s a time to reflect back on our year, our accomplishments, our defeats, our joys and sometimes our sorrows.

Regardless of what Thanksgiving means to you. Regardless of whether you celebrate the holiday or not, it is a day to be thankful. Even if you’re not in a place you feel thankful to be in, you still will find reason to be thankful for what you have…life. There is not a day go by we shouldn’t acknowledge our thankfulness for the life we have and the world we live in. As cliché as it may sound, all living persons have something to be thankful for.  If you wake up in the morning, you do have the power to make it a good day.

Often times however, as great as we humans are at finding things to be thankful for, we leave out the thing we should be most thankful for. It’s obvious to give thanks for family and friends. It’s easy to be thankful for the roof over our head, the clothes on our back and the food on our tables. But let’s not forget the one thing we need to be most thankful for…yourself.

Without you, nothing else would matter. Without you, there would be no family and friends. Without you there would be no meals, no holidays, no laughter no joy. You are an important element of what you have to be thankful for. So this holiday season, as you take time to give thanks for all the good in your life, make sure you take time to give thanks to yourself, for again, it’s you that has created the wonderful world in which you live.

A Rod Giving Thanks with Madonna

According to Access Hollywood, Madonna and New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez will spend their first Thanksgiving together at Rodriguez’s place in New York.

A-Rod will be hosting a dinner in his Manhattan apartment for Madonna, and her kids, Lourdes, Rocco and David, and their mutual manager, Guy Oseary.

Cynthia Rodriguez, who filed for divorce in July after more than five years of marriage to A-Rod, wrote an email to a close friend detailing A-Rod’s and Madonna’s holiday plans.

“My 6-foot-3, 220-pound soul-less, soon-to-be ex-husband is abandoning his kids on Thanksgiving to be with Madonna… She called and he ran on her command back to New York City . . . Gross!” Cynthia wrote.