the guests at my thanksgiving table
my celebrations have always - for many years - been non-normative.
this year was notable for how 'mainstream' everyone was -- but extremely diverse.
we were:
* atheists
* christians
* jewish
*muslim
with an overlay of socially awkward gay scientists -- {i swear to god, i'm going to make every one of these guys wear a wig and a ball gown one of these days}
there were adopted asian children
lots of badly behaved dogs -- cause what's better to a dog than a crowd -- you can get away with anything.
***no one keeps kosher in any of the categories -- so wine AND sausage were consumed in quantities.
there was even 1 older student getting her masters of divinity who gave a very ecumenical, all inclusive grace.
the food for the feast ROCKED -- i worked 2 days at enormous stretches to fix it all.
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yes INDEED 
gotta be DELICIOUS to top that!
For me, I was surrounded by four legged critters and women! Three dogs (one visiting), three cats (all ours), my wife, daughter, and my wife's best friend (recently divorced)...no politics (we are all very liberal), just great food, lots of laughs, some nostalgia, and the inevitable mixing of the pets with people....a fine day indeed (made all the more wonderful because our daughter continues her successful battle with an eating disorder - she loved the day, something that would have been unthinkable even as recently as 5 years ago).
Jewish in-law relative. And wine drinking Muslims tend to be a tad more open minded.
... that you had a lovely day, xchron. Same here, except that I only worked 6 hours on my fixins. And for the first time ever in my life, someone else did ALL the dishes and put everything away where it belonged. Peace surrounded our table as we are of the same mind politically (we vote as a bloc 
) We enjoyed the dog show and all of the football games. Go Cowboys! Go Ravens! The only thing I was sad about the whole day was that the Packers lost.
