More and morre I understand what family is...  You are born into some family and stuck with them. Some of those people you love and would lay down your life for, but others you will eventually ban all contact with and forget you ever were related to them...  Then there is the family you are adopted into..  Whether by being godparents and siblings whom again you arent really given a choice over, by marriage, much the same way in some ways, or by actual legal adoption.. Then there are the friends you are so close to that they become your family...  I have many of these past two catagories, and alot of the members of my blood family do not like it, but in all honesty, these people keep me going and keep me sane... They are the ones I rely on and the only ones I have to lean on..  And I am so thankful to them and to God for putting them in my life...  I am so lucky our paths have crossed and we have become close...  I dont know what I would do without all of you!!  And my kids dont know the difference between who is blood and who isnt in all honesty, and I DO NOT plan on teaching them the difference!!!  :)