To be a family means to be sharing times together. This doesn't mean the times are necessarily spent together, but that the times are important enough that others in your life care enough about what you are doing to be there in spirit, supporting you. These are the times your children are away at college, or off raising a family. Perhaps it is a trip or a project that is special to you.
Every family makes significant events every day of our lives.
It's important that we don't dance so fast that we fail to notice.