Susan Heffley

Susan Heffley (known as Ann Heffley in the online version), more commonly referred to as "Mom", is the matriarch of the Heffley family. She's the wife of Frank Heffley, and is the mother of Rodrick, Greg, and Manny Heffley.She is a member of PTA and also worked as a pre-school teacher and once was the subsitute teacher in Greg's class.

Appearance
Susan has a more distinct look from the rest of her family in the online and book version. Like her husband, she has an elliptical face. She wears large glasses that cover up her eyes. She has appeared in the series without glasses while sleeping. She has tall dark round hair (not used by anyone else) and she wears normal pants, either sweatpants or slim jeans, and a sweater. In The Third Wheel, a flashback photo shows she didn't need to wear glasses and had longer hair.

In the movie, Susan is played by Rachael Harris and just like other members of her family, has brown hair and a flawless complexion. She also appears with her trademark glasses. Unlike in the book and online version, she wears make-up in the movie.

Personality
She is a rather loving and caring mother, but she constantly embarrasses Greg and Rodrick (mainly Greg) and appears to never care. Susan apparently knows very little about older children and often humiliates, embarrasses and ignores Greg and Rodrick to their dismay. Also, it seems like she cares for Manny the most She constantly tries to pull the family together, by getting Frank and Greg accustomed to Rodrick's band, trying to get Greg, Rodrick and Manny close to Frank, and attempting to get Greg to enjoy reading "real" literature, but none of her plans ever seem to work, and often end up in rather disastrous consequences for Greg and Rodrick. Additionally, she puts individual desires below family desires; she rarely lets anyone in the family come to a decision about an outing or purchase without her permission. According to Greg she treats Manny better then the other sons and doesn't scold him at all, this is shown to be true since even when Manny nearly got the family frozen to death by killing the lights during a blizzard, she couldn't be seeing scolding him and she once drove all the way to Manny's pre-school to cut an extra-slice on his sandwhich. She also appears to give Manny a lot of money, even when he potties without being told (although this is not a big thing since he is potty-trained) and also if his brothers swear in front of him, according to Greg he even got up to $150.

Trivia

 * In the online book, Susan is known as Ann Heffley.
 * Susan serves as the main antagonist of Dog Days.
 * Susan has 4 sisters: Aunt Gretchen, Aunt Audra, Aunt Cakey and Aunt Veronica.
 * Greg believes she favours Manny, however, it might just be because he's a little kid and Greg is jealous that he believes that.
 * However, she does care about Greg and even spoiled him once even though it may not be obvious. Greg convinced her to spend more money on a double stroller at Slipslide Water Park and she did, even though Greg is way too old to be riding in a stroller. And she did his project for him in Hard Luck.
 * Similar to her second oldest son Greg, she is revealed not to get along with her siblings.
 * Susan once dyed her hair blonde as revealed in a game which the family was playing.
 * Susan might not originally be from Greg's city since it is stated that most of her extended family comes from other states.
 * Susan cannot speak Spanish, as evidenced in The Long Haul when she believed that in Spanish "tengo hambre" meant "tango hamburgers", when it actually means "I'm hungry", and that "What's your name?" in Spanish was "te amo", which actually means "I love you". She is learning, through the How to Speak Fluent Spanish C.D.s, but is still not nearly as good at Spanish as Manny.

Gallery
For more images, see: Susan Heffley/Gallery

Trivia

 * In the book, her glasses coving up her eyes are similar to Marcie from Peanuts.