Mom Reflexes

I remember being in 6th grade and my PE teacher, a kindly old 'sir' was trying his level best to get me to pass his subject.

Despite his best efforts, I was doing so badly (land sports are just not my thing) and in a final attempt he tried to offer me a reflex test where he drops a ruler and I was supposed to catch it.

Only I didn't.

I couldn't.

I had 0 reflexes. I could never catch the silly ruler.

Looking back, I realise that 6th grade PE is so not the standards of measuring your actual reflexes.

You actual reflexes get measured when you're trying to feed your 'newly-introduced-to-solids' baby and she invents the game of grabbing the spoon when its near her mouth. This horrible exercise gets your reflexes lightening fast because if she wins you have to pause the feeding to clean up sticky mushy hands, faces, hair, toys and everything else in the vicinity.

Part of the exercise also involves being able to successfully get that spoon into your baby's mouth during the opportune moment where she opens her mouth for half a mili-second to scream out a protest (and subsequently keeps it closed for the next 10 minutes and proceeds to only scream with pursed lips).

Sorry you're not here to see my reflexes now 6th grade PE sir. I would be your star pupil now. xx