The common thread...

Shot for the challenge of "connections". That topic made me think of the love we share as families and this quote.

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck

I seem to be on a kick of creating these cliche images with the word "love". :)