Apr 17 2008
Here It Snows Again
Last year I posted about my tulips and daffodils and how I do love the flowers that herald Spring. Last Fall I got a message from our office that a package had arrived for me with a letter and bulbs. I double checked the message to make sure I heard it correctly.. Bulbs? Sure enough one of our Signing Time fans who reads my blog and happens to work in landscaping mailed me bulbs!! She even sent bulbs that would match the ones I had shown pictures of. (Thank you Wendy!) But I haven’t SEEN my tulips yet. Just as the weather warms up and my bulbs almost bloom, BAM we get hit with another snowstorm. I can’t really complain because I love the skiing, but I am really ready for the flowers! My daffodils are up, but my tulips have not bloomed, yet.
I was in California last week and it was 88 degrees 
Ahhh! It felt so good and it makes me remember how much I love Los Angeles. I performed in Yucca Valley and in Los Angeles. The 2 hour drive to Yucca took 3 hours and 45 minutes, which makes me remember what I don’t love about Los Angeles. LOL
Baby Celebration was a blast! I loved seeing so many fans and so may great little signers. I even recognized a few from the auditions we just held. As I walked through the convention center I was shocked at how many different vendors recognized me and asked to take pictures with me and wanted to get their products in our shows! Yeah! Is it silly to say it was the first time I felt like a star? Seriously, don’t laugh!
The last few weeks have been crazy and I think we will be in a holding pattern of “crazy” through June. I’ve had a hundred things to share but I just haven’t been able to sort it out in a way that seems blog worthy:) So here’s a top 10 list in no particular order.
10. I have lost 1 pound a week for the past 20 weeks!
9. Leah came in 5th place in her school Spelling Bee - the word she missed was “asceticism” … can you blame her?
8. I wrote 16 songs in 10 days
7. Lucy got sent to the principals office (LOL)
6. I completed 3 photo shoot days - standing, smiling and signing from 8AM-6PM
5. Cancelled my trip to France in June
4. I am coordinating Lucy’s fetal surgery for spina bifida reunion that will take place in Park City, UT in June
3. Leah wrote a report about her “Hero” - I cried as she read what she wrote about me!
2. Aaron is the lead editor on the new shows (this means we are BOTH up to our eyeballs in Signing Time!)
1. I have been invited to come back to Ghana in May for a world summit to address the education of deaf children (This, of course, is scheduled right in the middle of production for our new shows!) At first I said, “No. I just can’t go.” Now I am having second thoughts.
Plus- I am on a talk show this Friday, I perform in Las Vegas the first week of May. I am filmed for the new shows the second week of May. I have a Marketing Retreat the third week of May and somewhere in there I am trying to squeeze in 6 days in Africa LOL - WHEW! I am not complaining, I am just blown away at what is going to happen in the next 60 days. Is this where I finally learn to ask for help? Anyone interested in a nanny job for 2 adorable, brilliant little girls? You might also need to cook and clean and do laundry.
If there was a reality TV series about my life from now to June, even I would watch it!! I am just dying to know how it all turns out! The cool thing is, it is all going to work out! It always does!
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10.~ YAY!!! Go you!!!!!
9.~ That is a tough word, but YAY on 5th place!
8.~ Did you have some flights cancelled like last year when you wrote a season’s worth of songs?
7.~ I want to hear about that at chat!
6.~ I can’t wait to see!
5.~ Major bummer.
4.~ With all you have going on, you’re going to need a bigger plate to hold it all!
3.~ You know we are ALL going to want to read that report!
2.~ If Aaron is up to his eyeballs with Signing Time, and he’s taller than you, doesn’t that mean you’re up over your head with it? lol
1.~ See #4
Hmmmm… if someone could clone you…..
And yes, it always does work out!
10. Yay! You lost twenty pounds! YAY!
9. I can barely pronounce that word; 5th place is good!
8. I can’t even write one song in 10 days!
7. Please tell me she wasn’t in trouble! Like Kei, “I want to hear about that at chat!”
6. I wanna see! lol
5. Aw. I’m sure you would’ve had a great time!
4. You need a twin or a clone or something that can live in your closet (lol) in case you need an extra set of hands. (I got that idea from a Phineas and Ferb episode.)
3. I wanna read it!
2. In response to Kei’s response, it really depends on whether you and Aaron are in the same room all the time. I LOLed at Kei’s response; it makes sense!
1. Maybe you could go and push back production. We all would love to hear about your experience. Or maybe you shouldn’t go. New episodes are good. I’m an indecisive person lol.
Oh! And I’d nanny/babysit! You’d just have to bring them to Indiana! I’m not going to Utah; I don’t have the money! I barely have the money to go on a trip to Gallaudet. lol I’m done.
Sheesh girl, you have just a little going on! Baby Celebration was a blast, you were a rock star!
Wow…busy busy! Just wanted to leave you a little note and tell you how my girls (all of them) absolutely love your videos. They have learned so much so quickly! It’s amazing. Thank you.
I am with purple wowies. If Leah and Lucy would like to spend two weeks on a mini farm in Kentucky they are more than welcome. Just can’t make it out to Utah, sorry. Anyother way we can help though, let us know!
Hi!
Hopefully next time 
Didnt know if I should have mentioned that my son’s parents (my husband & I) are deaf and that I teach elementary (2nd and 3rd)and teach ASL at a university 
Anyway, would love to watch your kids.. either in Washington state which is where we live or in Minnesota at our family farm in the summer… But am sure you already have some others in mind to watch them. Rachael.. am hoping to meet you someday and sit down have a coffee and chat!
I just signed up & registered! Just wanted to say hi! Dont know if you (Rachael) actually read people’s comments? Anyway, was a bummer that my son was not chosen to go Utah
(Also wanted to let you know my son would walk up to me and tap me gently and sign “TIME” as [signing time]- so cute to see that he wants to watch Signing Time
Takecare,
Jenene Johnson