Are you my family?

Is blood thicker then water?  Is family more important then friends, or non-family?  What makes you family?  Does marriage make you family, or is that just more water?

These are things that plaque my thoughts often, even though I try not to admit that they do.  I just feel the sting of the snub still I suppose.  I have come a long way though, I guess the part that bothers me the most now is the distance that my other kids get from all of this crap as well.  It's like they were snubbed to, family or not.  If blood is thicker then water, then I wish I had water rushing through my veins.