Rainey Thoughts

It's currently around 1 a.m., and I'm wide awake watching my baby sleep. My perfect, growing-too-fast, energetic baby who is almost a whole year old. A whole year with him has already flown by. The realization that a year has already come and gone sends my apprehensive mind into  overdrive.  Is he reaching all his milestones appropriately? Am I doing a good job helping him learn and grow? Is he happy? And then all the "what-if"s... God knows I have a tendency to overthink and overanalyze, so in the midst of all my present  overanalyzing,  He reminds me of when we had just found out I was pregnant. The initial elation of the news quickly replaced with a similar slew of fears.  Is my baby reaching all its milestones appropriately? Am I doing everything I can to help my baby grow? And the one that caused the most sleepless nights-- what if something happens and the heart stops beating ? I didn't think I could handle the grief. I went to every ultrasound sick wit...

http://www.georgiadogs.com/images/2017/7/20/UGA_Football_28Sept2013_1027Pe_2798016713_O.jpg The Georgia Way I don't know when it happened or who we ticked off, but at some point in the history of our great state, we were the unfortunate recipients of a sports curse. Doomed to decades of misery, fans of nearly every Georgia sports team are teased year after year with victory and elation, only to be crushed in the worst way at the very worst times. (I will spare you the residual heartbreak of having to read the list I had planned to type here of all the examples I could come up with.)  But for this year's Georgia football team, it just seemed...different. The season had gone amazingly well after getting off to what could have been a disastrous start with an injury to the starting quarterback.  The Rose Bowl double overtime victory seemed to indicate that the curse may have finally been broken. Even in the National Championship, Georgia got off to an electric and dominatin...