Thanks a Million. Or two.

We're big Hoops & YoYo fans around our house. We've loved watching their site grow over the past several years, and enjoy sending their e-cards to our favorite people. These cute critters were the creation of Hallmark.com, and they're really funny.

A few days ago, Gator wanted to see some of their cards, so we went to the site and stared clicking on them. They have a new card for moms in which Hoops & YoYo allegedly thank their mom one million times with the assistance of a counter, because she's one in a million.


Of course my kids wanted to watch the counter go all the way to a million. I assumed at first that it would start off slow, but then get faster and faster, ultimately getting to one million in a few minutes tops.

I was wrong.

For 2 days the kids ran up in the morning, and checked on the progress throughout the day. It was obvious that by the 2nd night, it would cross the million mark while they were in bed. I told them I'd take pictures.


At first I protested the card...after all a million is a lot, and I haven't done anywhere close to a million good "thank you worthy" things in my life. Bunch responded "it's one thank you for every breath you've ever taken". She came up with the number of how many breaths I've had with this tool, and some basic math using the average of 14 breaths a minute.

We left the card running till it passed 2 million thank yous, and that night my computer crashed.

The whole phenomenon reminded me of how, when I was a child my parents got a fancy new clock with little numbers on a dial that would flip over every minute. I loved that clock! I would spend hours lying on their bed looking at the clock and waiting for the numbers to tick over. It was most exciting when the hour changed. Now we're talkin' some quality entertainment! Here are the screen shots I took of them counting their million thanks!