It's so easy to get lost inside
a problem that seems so big at the time
it's like a river that's so wide
it swallows you whole
While you sit around thinking about what you can't change
and worrying about all the wrong things
time's flying by
moving so fast
you better make it count 'cause you can't get it back

(So Small- Carrie Underwood)

"John come here" Riley yelled from their bedroom. John rushed into the room afraid that there was something wrong.

'What's the matter … are you ok?" he asked.

"I'm fine sweetie" she grinned at him.

"Then why did you have to yell for me to come into the bedroom?" he asked a little annoyed.

"My stomach is starting to get hard" she replied looking at herself in the mirror. There was a tiny bump there now.

"You worried me half to death to tell me that" he was really annoyed now.

"Geez sorry I just thought you'd like to know".

"Ri, the only times when you yell my name like that are if someone is bleeding really badly, if someone is dying, or if that really hot next door neighbor girl is skinny dipping again" she punched him in the arm a little for the last comment.

"What like you didn't look too" he retorted.

"Leave"

"This is my bedroom too ya know" he mocked being offended.

"I'm tired … lay with me"

She got comfortable on the bed and he joined her. She curled up into him and placed his hand underneath her shirt as she always did. He knew she was trying to get him to connect with the baby and he loved that she tried but he still wasn't really feeling it.

"John" she turned her neck so she could look up at his face.

"Hmm" his eyes were closed.

"What do you think our baby will be like?" she asked tiredly linking and unlinking their fingers.

"I hope he or she will be just like their mom" he replied honestly.

"I hope the opposite" she told him.

"Why there is nothing special about me" was his reply.

She sat up on her elbow so she could look at him. "How could you say that?" she asked appalled. There were tears in her eyes. "There are so many special things about you … your empathy for one, or the fact that you are so kind to people, you keep your cool under pressure, or the fact that you are willing to sacrifice yourself just to make me happy, the way you see joy in the little things, you're a hard worker who earns everything he gets, and your passion ... and I'm not talking about the bedroom passion either although you are pretty amazing at that too" that earned her a smile from her husband "or your dedication, or what about the way you take care of your family".

He wiped away the tears from her eyes "I didn't mean to upset you".

"Don't ever put yourself down like that again because you are the most amazing person I know".

"Ok I won't" he kissed her forehead.

"Why do you have so much faith in me?" he asked.

"Because I see the things in you that you can see" she replied yawning.

This time it was him who placed his hand on her stomach. He was still afraid but if she believed in him that much maybe it was time he believed in himself.

"I love you Riley"

"I love you too John" she closed her eyes and a few minutes later he heard her soft even breathing.

'Cause sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand
What you've been up there searching for
forever is in your hands
When you figure out love is all that matters after all
It sure makes everything else
seem so small