I spend a lot of time (too much time) thinking about what kind of mom I am based on what I'm doing at the moment. Here's a recent moment I had:

We're watching the news and Ben looks up from playing and see President Obama. "President Obama!" he says and suddenly I'm a good mom.

I turn the TV on at 10:00 am and we hear theme show music. Ben says, "Oh, Ellen is on" and runs over to watch. I decide this makes me a cool mom.

I sit down to nurse Elijah after his nap and turn the TV on. Ben looks up at the talk show and says, "Dr. Phil." And this makes me a bad bad mom!

(In my defense we only get one channel so it's not like I can just switch to something better...)