The Challenge

The Thorntons (myself, Lance, Bailey and Chance) would like to challenge you! We are wagering a friendly competition amongst ourselves and would love for you to adapt the competition to your famiy. We have divided our family into teams. Lance and I are each individual teams and the kids have partnered up to be a team as well. We are each performing a random act of kindness a month and are competing to see who has the most creative idea.  I found the idea on pinterest and my NHS members (I am a school teacher) performed random acts around the schools/community the week before Christmas.  They LOVED it! Then, a week or so ago, my sister-in-law began to tell me about a blog she read that had 24 acts written on a piece of paper, and every day in December read the sheet and performed the act every day until Christmas. Erin (my s-i-l), then decided to do the same thing with her two boys every week this year!  That is 52 acts of kindness! I decided to jump on this concept, but adapt the concept for my family. We decided to compete...can you tell we are a sports family? :) We will be performing 36 acts of kindness this year, instead of the normal holiday-related charitable endeavors. I always tease and say that I want Christmas to last all year long and now it can!  Our family is calling this the Thornton "Heart of a Champion" Challenge (more to follow on the choice for the title later) I posted this idea on facebook yesterday and received an amazing response so I decided to make this blog and share our ideas this year here as well.  We challenge YOU to live life each day like a CHAMPION!