I would rent a mom in a heartbeat. Sometimes I just need a motherly figure to let me cry without the reality of my actual mom doing that while cooing “maybe you should re-evaluate your life choices, Attia.” UGHHH, MOM, I KNOW!!!!

No, but you do have to invite us all over via Skype to watch the beautiful awkwardness unfold.

My Future Mother In Law gave her daughter her own last name and her son the name of her husband/his father. Apparently, this never caused any logistical problems and the younger daughter was happy because teachers didn’t immediately say, “oh, you’re Augustus’ sister!” She feels like she was treated more of an…

I’m getting married in June and am planning on taking Mr. Augustus’ last name just because I like it (and it comes with some cool nicknames, like Bank). My Future Mother In Law is LIVID that I would consider taking her son’s name since she kept her maiden name when she married and as a fellow academic, wants me to…

Has Kim copyrighted having a floral backdrop in a photo? She should pull an Amazon and snatch that up before anyone else does.

You’ve inspired my crazy cat lady Halloween costume... dreadlocks full of kittens (although I think I’ll skip the cat pee).

A kitten playing in my hair is my only birthday wish.

Sadly, not yet since these things take about 9 months to make. Since I’m also not considered a ‘standard’ bridal size (hello, size 12) I don’t even have a photo of me in a sample dress. I had to hold up the dress and use my powers of imagination once again, BECAUSE FASHION!

I believe a toned down version of this has already been promulgated for a while. In February I ordered a Maggie Sottero ‘Lucinda’ dress with gold under the lace rather than white because the warm tones suit my skin tone and personality much better. I’ll be wearing it in June. Now, if anyone asks about my…

My MIL lost the movement in half of her face. I didn’t realize it until my Hubby mentioned what a jerk the doctor had been to her; the doctor told her, “I’d be worried for you if you were 20 and single, but given your age (she was around 50 at the time), I don’t think it is a big deal.”

I would love to know more about those cheating statistics... unless they will make me depressed. Actually, I already know they will make me depressed.

When Baby Attia was a child, she was always naked: naked at Macy’s, naked in a friend’s pool, naked hiking down the Grand Canyon. Although her family likes to blame it on the heat of Arizona - where she was living at the time - Attia still contends that her best thinking is and was done while naked. If she ever…

My friend constantly has to tell her three sons (all under 7 years old) to stop wrapping their penses around their forks while eating dinner.

While our ire at a wedding being upstaged was misplaced in this case, I still think it is a good rule of thumb not to propose at someone else’s wedding. It doesn’t feel very representative of a couple’s vibe/mojo/personality to me.

Gets up to feed your whiney cat on the weekends so that you can sleep in.

Is Cara Delevingne known for making friends? Also, this is the WORST match they have done so far... I love it!

I’m all for cosmetics companies innovating skin farming/printing technology if their advances can also be used to help burn victims, etc. who need skin transplants. Yay for science!

A few summers ago I took 5 of my friends on a tour of Egypt, a country I had lived in for a while as a child and visited several times as an adult. I warned them that since we were traveling in the summer, we all needed to stay very hydrated since the temperatures were scorching. What I forgot to tell them was not to…

It looks like even the lip syncing was off!