Today, according to my west coast brother, is "Sister's Day" and "American Family Day." I don't have any sisters but I do have an amazing west coast sister-in-law. She has been making me feel at home whenever I have visited there over the last many years. I told my brother once that I feel more at home at their house than anywhere else in the world except for the house my spouse and I share now.
When my spouse and I visited them last summer they made him feel just as welcome as they have always done for me. They are, as well as being relatives, a great American family, worthy of celebrating.
And speaking of American families, which come in all shapes and sizes, my current spouse and I (a second marriage for each of us) have a wonderfully enlarged family now. We're not exactly a blended family, because all of our children were married and had families of their own before we married in 2024. But I think we are a wonderfully entangled family. Because of our history as friends, my children and my spouses children have known each other since they were babies. I have pictures to prove it.
At this point in our lives my spouse and I together have four children, four children-in-law, ten grandchildren (two of whom have significant others) and one great grandbaby on the way. You knew I'd get that one in there.
If that's not a fine American family, I don't know what is.
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