I am just getting started with this. I hope this page will be a source of new ideas, advice, and support for myself and other moms! I plan to post articles that I find interesting and helpful, as well as my own personal experiences and ideas.

Just a little to get started:

My name is Whitney. I have been married to my husband Isaac, for coming up on ten years. We have been together for about 12. We have two daughters together, Kathrynn, 9, and Brianna, 6 , and he has two sons from a pervious marriage, Isaac Jr, 12, and Steven, 10. Isaac was a United States Marine for nearly 10 years, but got out of the military a couple of years after we got married.

I am a musician and have been my whole life. I started singing when I was still very young, and performed in my first musical when I was in kindergarten. My mom was a teacher at a high school, and they were doing a production of The Sound of Music. I was the youngest Von Trapp child. I loved it! While I pretty much stopped acting, music has always been a part of my life. I started playing the french horn when I was 12, and that branched out to the Mellophone, Trumpet, and E Flat Alto horn. I went to college on a full music scholarship, but became burned out rather quickly, and left college 4 classes short of a degree. A few years after I left, I spent a season and a half marching with the amazing Washington Redskins Marching Band. They are one of only two marching bands in the NFL, and the oldest of the two. The other is with the Baltimore Ravens. It has been almost 4 years since I last played with them, and I still miss it terribly!

I was a stay at home mom for the better part of 7 years. It came down to my working and all but $30 of my bi-weekly paycheck going to pay for our oldest daughters day care expenses, or my no longer working and spending my time with her, instead of other peoples children. (I worked in the same day care she went to, but in another class.) Hard choice, right? Not really. I gave up that whopping $30 every paycheck, and actually got to raise my daughter. Not too long after I quit, we decided to have another child. Nine months later, our youngest daughter was born. At this point in our lives, my step sons live 3000 miles away.

Fast forward to 4 years later, and we have moved from Northern Virginia to the Pacific North West to be closer to my step sons and my in laws. After several months of my husband not being able to find a job, I went back to work. It was scary and exciting all at the same time. I took small steps, going back part time (and by part time, I mean 3 hours a day 4 days a week). I worked as a board operator for a radio station. I stayed there for about a year, since they had told me they'd train me to become a radio personality. But at the end of that year, I was no closer to that than I was the day I started.

I quit that job when I got hired to work as a customer service agent for a company called Center Partners, which works for Qwest. I have been there for right at a year. Not too long after I got hired by CP, I also got hired by another radio station to be an actual on air personality. It has been a slow road, but I am working my way to more radio and less CP. In fact, since school is about to let out for the summer, and I'd basically be working to put the girls in day care, it looks like I will be quitting CP and being at home with them again, at least for the summer. I am hoping in that time I can get more opportunities with the radio station.

So that is basically where we are now. In 6 weeks, school lets out, and I am trying to find some sort of income to help in that time frame in addtion to the radio station.