transitions in marriage - in-laws

I adore these people.  This is my family.  They are my in-laws but I don't really think of them that way.  They have never been anything but my family.  I have always known that I was blessed to marry into this family.  I love them.  My husband was 29 when we got married.  His family thought he would never get married.  I think they were just so grateful that someone would marry him.  They have accepted me 100 percent from the day they met me.  I have never felt like an outsider.  There are three other sisters in law and two brothers in law in this family.  We all feel the same way.  Sometimes when our spouses get crazy we migrate to our own corner of the room and stay out of the way.  I love my nieces and nephews they are some of my favorite people.  I am proud of them.  I adore them.  This is an amazing and powerful group of people.  This is a group of people who love and serve God and I am proud to be a part of them. They are my people.   I often think about how much I hope that my children will be as blessed as I was.  I am determined to be the same type of mother in law as the on I was blessed with.  I think the reason I have fit so well into the family is because she loves her son and she is proud of him.  She has let him develop his own life and she supports him in the decisions he makes.  I think this is easier said than done but she is very good at it.  I hope I can be a good mother in law like her.