Inside Voice

Karen Alpert from Baby Sideburns reads an excerpt from her hilarious book I Want My Epidural Back: Adventures in Mediocre Parenting. Are your kids having sleepovers? This one's for you... Hi, I'm Karen Alpert, aka Baby Sideburns. I'm a mom who likes to wear fat pants and drink Hershey's syrup straight from the bottle while I cook dinner every night. And by cook dinner, I mean nuke chicken nuggets in the microwave. Thanks for checking out my page! You might notice that I swear on here a little. If that bothers you, I'm sorry. If it makes you feel any better I never do it in front of my kiddos (unless they drop a bowling ball on my head or something), and really I just do it in my writing because what I write is what goes through my head. Here are some other things I do besides curse in my head: Use fake words like vajayjay and anyways Write sponsored posts so I can buy chicken nuggets and Hershey's syrup Raise two kiddos named Zoey and Holden (who were 5 and 2.5 when this page was created but who mig