Mom Friend

You may be a mom friend if you can go for weeks-or even months-playing tag with each other's voicemail. 

You may also be a mom friend if you finally connect over the phone after three months and 22 seconds into the call one of you hangs up with a "oh no, gotta go."

​You may be a mom friend if you can survive a huge water park for multiple days with multiple children on little sleep and a lot of alcohol.

You may be a mom friend if you find that 95% of your conversations are about your children.

You may be a mom friend if your conversation topics include poop more often than anyone would like.

You may be a mom friend if you plan out a visit with plane tickets and trips to the beach and it becomes taking turns cleaning up puke and trips to the emergency room.

You may be a mom friend if you find yourself supporting each other even when your children are a variety of babies, toddlers, young children, teenagers and adults. 

You may be a mom friend if you find yourself sharing tears as you talk about first days of preschool and last days of high school, even if it's been forever since your own children have been there or have yet to be there. 

You may be a mom friend if you don't need to ask; you just bring the coffee.

You may be a mom friend if you've seen each other in those big-ass mesh panties, have handed each other pads bigger than your newborn, or have helped prop a boob up while breastfeeding.

You may be a mom friend if reading the above doesn't make you squirm. 

​You may be a mom friend if you can start telling a story one day and finish it three weeks later.

You may be a mom friend if you feel some sort of victory in a child's success... even when it's not your child.

You may be a mom friend if your children don't realize they are not actually related by blood until they are old enough to understand that sometimes friendship runs as deep as blood.

You may be a mom friend if you became friends because you are a mom. You may also be a mom friend if you were friends before becoming a mom but found that becoming a mom gave you an unspoken forever bond.