You'll Relate on a Deep Level to These 11 Moms You'll Find in Every Neighborhood

Her house is beautiful, her children are immaculately dressed, and there doesn't seem to be a single crack in the perfect picture life she's created. You're not sure whether you should aspire to be her or silently hate her from a distance.

She's young, she's fun, and she still shops at Forever 21. Because she's kind of a kid herself (or at least she wants to be), she's totally down with having her house act as home base for all the neighborhood kids, who flock there for the abundant junk food and sodas, big-screen TV complete with the latest video games, and a backyard stocked with a trampoline, a tree house, and a fleet of scooters and bikes.

Overwhelmed is the name of her game. She probably should have stopped before she had that last kid, but now she's totally outnumbered and feeling the pain of too many mouths to feed, bodies to cart around, and tiny people to make happy. Most often you'll see her in the same yoga pants she was wearing yesterday.

Her doors are literally always open, with neighborhood kids, moms, relatives, repairmen, and people you don't recognize going in and out of the house all day long. You can't quite figure out how one person needs so much human interaction, and you're a little wary of letting your kids join in on the circus that is her home. Of course, they're dying to join in.

She never signs up for a single kid activity without checking that at least one of her neighbors is enrolling as well. Carpooling is her life, her sanity saver, and the only way she finds time to get her kids' laundry done. Let her know if you're thinking baseball or soccer for the Summer, and she'll sign up, too!

She doesn't give a single f*ck what her neighbors think of her, and she shows it by letting her kids run around naked in her yard, ride their bikes without helmets, and "babysit" their baby brother in the front yard totally unsupervised. While you often worry about her kids' safety, you have to admire her lack of conformity.

She's dying to stir up a little controversy in your otherwise quiet neighborhood, so she'll be the first to tell you about the neighbors she heard fighting in their garage last weekend. Nothing is off limits for this gossip. Beware of engaging; you could easily be her next target.

She really wants to get together, like really, really soon. You appreciate her hospitality, but you're reluctant to commit to bestie status quite yet. No one should be that into play dates, and you're pretty sure that once you say yes to one, the invitations will never stop.

She's a unique bird, and she'll be the first to tell you all about just how interesting she is — regardless of whether you're interested or not. She sees your daughter's snack as an opportunity to fill you in on her gluten-, dairy-, sugar-free diet, your son's scooter as an opening to talk about her love for motorcycles, and the gossip magazine you just retrieved from your mailbox as the perfect reason to tell you about that time she spotted a movie star in Vegas and may or may not have hooked up with him. Nod politely, and disengage as quickly as possible.

She's lived in the neighborhood longer than anybody, so she has an encyclopedic knowledge of all your neighbors, including their kids' ages and favorite hobbies, what they paid for their homes, what work they've put into them since moving in, and who can't stand whom and why. She's the perfect person to fill you in on the neighborhood landscape, both physically and emotionally, and she's more than willing to pass along her huge knowledge base.

You know she exists, you've met her kids and they seem pretty normal, and you've heard rumors that she once made an appearance at the neighborhood Summer party. But this woman seems more like a shadow than an actual human. Maybe she works long hours and has a terrible commute, maybe she's just not that social, or maybe she's actively avoiding you. Regardless, you're dying for a spotting, just to confirm that she really exists.