" i have little to say about this book. in my mind, it falls into the same category as other humorous essays on life & parenthood as so many other books i have read, with the twist being that the author was the runner-up on "project runway" season three. & that twist is why i picked it up. the first essay, about laura's experience taking her entire family (one girl & five boys, ranging in age from twenty to two) on an airplane, gave me pause. laura made some allegory up regarding her parenting strategies & the flight attendant's recommendation of first putting your oxygen mask on yourself & then helping the children. it seemed a little...pat. or trite, even. i was a bit anxious that i was reading a book by someone who is quite capable of sewing a spangled empire-waist cocktail dress & had somehow parlayed this into a book deal. which...i was. but it was still just a notch better than i anticipated. still not mind-blowing though. i breezed through it (just shy of 200 pages--seems like she must have had more to say but just chose not to draw it out) in no time. my favorite parts were definitely the handful of chapters about the experience of being on "project runway," just because it's interesting to hear about how things really happen behind the scenes. but the parenting stuff wasn't at all objectionable. i guess this is what they call a "great beach read," but it certainly won't be taxing anyone's intellect. "
— Ciara, 2/15/2014