Family is everything, however, not everybody is lucky enough to have a family but friends can be family too. Love your family, love your friends.
I am lucky to have a pretty great SMALL family, mom, dad, step mom (bonus), brother, niece, .....thats it.
Extended family count for nothing in this case because i don't ever see them and most of them don't even know my name. Cousin so and so. 5 is a great number of people because phone call time can be done in about 5 minutes