I think a family is the people that you are related to as well as the people you communicate with. Family doesn't have to be like a mom, dad, and kids. It can be your extended family, and even your close friends. If the people you care about support you in what you want to do and who you are then they are your family. In my family I have ,of course, my parents ,Irene and Arturo, and then I have my stepmom, Silvia, and my stepdad, Martin. I have my brothers Arturo Jr.(11) and Alvaro (9) and I have my sister Adriana (7). They are all younger than me, so there's usually not much to talk about with them. I have my cousins, aunts and uncles. I have some friends in my family circle because they are like family to me and I can trust them with anything.
My family is fun, even if they are kind of strict sometimes. I know I can have fun at a family party and not be bored in an adult conversation. they don't talk about boring stuff, they make it funny and I love being around my family. They have morals and standards that we all have to live by, but I understand why. My Grandmother's house is like going to charm school; she is always telling us how to be proper and lady like. The best part about my family is the uniqueness of everyone. There is a variety of interests so no one can ever get bored talking about something. There are some of us that like to listen to music and joke around and then there's the more artistic ones that just focus themselves on drawing. There are people with different talents, and that's what I think makes my family so interesting.
Some of the generations in my family overlap. I have an aunt that is 4 years old and her cousins are around 40. Her dad is only about 2 years older than many of his nieces and nephews. I guess this has to do with how years ago people would get married in their early teenage years. My grandmother married at 17 and my great grandma got married some months after her quinceanera. I think in a way the generations overlapping is a good thing, at least in my family. Everyone is closer because of this, there's no huge dividers between the generations mainly because the age groups blend with each other.
"Families evolve from a patchwork of possibilities"
I think this quote means that a family is a grouping of very different people that just seem to fit together into something that is right. There is the possibility that there will be that one green patch in the middle of a blue quilt. There can be that one person in your family that even though everyone else likes hip hop, they'll like rock, but they're still your family. Every person in a family makes up one piece of the quilt and you never know what color you're going to get, but the result in the end is really nice. It's interesting and every piece is unique even if they came from the same place. Families are like that.
