Originally posted October 6, 2008

My mother-in-law remarried Saturday. It had been about a year since her late husband passed away. Her new husband's name is John. I met one of John's sons and his sister for the first time on Thursday. By Sunday, when we had officially become family, it was as if we had known each other all our lives. Some take great pains to specify which people are family and which are friends. However. in the grand scheme of things, family should be a subset of friends, not a mutually exclusive group of people. Remember, we have control over who we choose to be our friends. However, our family is chosen for us. Make sure you CHOOSE to make your pre-selected family into the core of your group of friends.